Free Speech

Gabriela Pariseau | June 9, 2025

In a search for “H.R. 4,” Google dug deep to avoid elevating the most recent bill with that title and instead propped up a controversial bill from 2021. 

Congress will vote on H.R. 4, the Rescissions Act of 2025, this week, but when…

Catherine Salgado | June 9, 2025

While protections for free speech have begun to improve this year, Big Tech censorship has not let up, with Americans still finding themselves issuing “mayday” alerts as they were silenced or stuck in social media jail during May.

Catherine Salgado | June 6, 2025

A federal program that caused scandal and controversy by targeting political dissidents is now history.

Catherine Salgado | June 6, 2025

One of the most popular right-leaning satire sites is taking on a state law that potentially criminalizes humor and political memes shared on social media.

Gabriela Pariseau | June 6, 2025

Google excluded right-leaning media outlets from search results about a Trump administration rescission package. MRC researchers found that Google's results favored left-leaning media such as NPR and PBS, omitting conservative sources like Fox…

Tom Olohan | June 5, 2025

A massive American financial institution publicly renounced debanking customers for their political views.

Luis Cornelio | June 5, 2025

Karine Jean-Pierre may have left the Democratic Party, but that doesn’t mean she’s done parroting the left’s talking points—especially regarding free speech.

Catherine Salgado | June 5, 2025

About a third of the employees at one of the most infamous anti-free speech federal agencies have left since President Donald Trump took office, according to a new report.

Luis Cornelio | June 4, 2025

President Donald Trump may grant another extension to TikTok despite the Biden-era law banning the platform unless its Chinese owner, ByteDance, sells its shares to an American company.

The Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek, popular since its debut, erases data pertaining to sensitive topics disapproved by the Chinese government, including Tiananmen Square, Taiwan, Jimmy Lai, and Uyghur rights. Despite initially processing encoded…

Catherine Salgado | June 4, 2025

Tech giant Google is scrambling to respond amid federal litigation as scrutiny over its search engine monopoly increasingly takes center stage.

Gabriela Pariseau | June 4, 2025

Even Google couldn’t mask  PBS's bias when comparing how the outlet treated former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

MRC researchers asked Google’s AI chatbot Gemini on Monday, “Does PBS coverage…

Catherine Salgado | June 3, 2025

CBS News’s 60 Minutes platformed a famous author’s stunning claim that America’s political right is anti-free speech like the political left, but MRC has the evidence to prove heavy leftist censorship bias.

 

Tom Olohan | June 3, 2025

A major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot has exhibited troubling behaviors in response to researcher testing, as multiple models rebelled against commands.

Catherine Salgado | June 2, 2025

A Texas bill that threatened free speech has failed to move ahead in the state legislature.

Gabriela Pariseau | June 2, 2025

Did Google just use leftist Wikipedia to cover for news outlets that are due for a reckoning?

MRC researchers asked Google Search on Thursday whether NPR and PBS hid the Hunter Biden laptop story. At the top of the two searches, Google’s…

Tom Olohan | June 2, 2025

The Trump administration is coming after foreign government officials who pressure Big Tech platforms to censor Americans—and Brazil might be their first target.

Even as Meta seeks congratulations on free speech reforms amid federal scrutiny, the company tacitly admitted on Thursday that censorship is not over on its platforms.

 

The State Department is on the warpath against online censorship, and Republican lawmakers are rallying to the cause.

Luis Cornelio | May 29, 2025

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released yet more evidence exposing how far the Biden administration went to target critics of its COVID-19 mandates.