Free Speech

Alexander Hall |

In October 2020, near the end of the presidential election, Big Tech companies suppressed political scandals that could have swung the election.

Autumn Johnson |

Facebook announced on Wednesday that it will remove content that targets public figures who are “at risk” of self-harm, Forbes reported.

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg |

It’s Episode Seven of MRC’s new video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about the Free Speech America study which reported that Big Tech censors GOP congressmen by 54 to 1 more than Democrats.

Catherine Salgado |

Exclusive: Google, the next Ministry of Truth, is rewriting history. Google’s “About” section is meant to explain at a glance the most relevant facts about a person. Unless it’s former President Donald Trump. His “About” section contains no…

Autumn Johnson |

According to The Intercept, Facebook has a secret blacklist of “dangerous individuals and organizations.”

 

Alexander Hall |

Conservative leaders warned about the dangers Big Tech censorship poses to online freedom during a Media Research Center roundtable Tuesday.

Catherine Salgado |

So much for free speech online. “Big Tech hates America and free speech. It’s death by 1 billion cuts. We’re not going to let them get away with it,” Media Research Center President L. Brent Bozell said in a tweet.

Alec Schemmel, Dan Gainor |

Big Tech censorship didn’t just repeatedly restrict and finally ban President Donald Trump. Social media companies overwhelmingly censored Republican members of Congress by a rate of 54-to-1 compared to congressional Democrats, according to a new…

Autumn Johnson |

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested that she wants more censorship from Big Tech giants like Facebook. In an interview with The View, Clinton blamed Facebook and Former President Donald Trump for the “constitutional crisis” of the…

Catherine Salgado |

One America News’s Justine Murray blasted Facebook and “Tzar Zuckerberg” for censoring conservative free speech while allowing sexual exploiters to use and abuse Facebook and its users.

NB Staff |

Facebook is allegedly using a debunked fact-check from The Associated Press to censor posts for criticizing critical race theory.

Autumn Johnson |

Steven Hill, a former policy director at the Center for Humane Technology, suggested that Facebook issue use “permits.”

 

Autumn Johnson |

A new statement from President Biden on the spread of COVID is being criticized on Twitter for its inconsistency with other statements. Earlier in the week, Biden defended enacting vaccine mandates on the grounds that people who go to the…

Autumn Johnson |

While much of the recent media attention regarding Facebook whistleblowers has gone to former employee and liberal donor Frances Haugen, it's worth noting that she wasn't the first former employee who has warned about the company. Haugen, a data…

Catherine Salgado |

The atmosphere for content creators with Google just reached a new freezing point. YouTube and parent company Google reportedly plan to demonetize all content from so-called “climate deniers.”

Catherine Salgado |

Big Tech just can’t seem to get off the censorship train — especially when it comes to content that runs counter to the left’s accepted narrative. “You know, tyrants don’t like [satire]. It’s the thing that they hate more than anything else,”…

NB Staff |

The Associated Press is being criticized on Twitter for getting a fact-check wrong on a hot topic.

 

Gabriela Pariseau |

Twitter, your bias is showing! The platform appears to have chosen not to enforce its rules on “targeted harassment” even when Jezebel told its readers they should “Absolutely Bully” Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ).

Catherine Salgado |

Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen is being treated by the left and media as a hero. But The Wall Street Journal, Glenn Greenwald and Ben Shapiro, to name a few, have blasted Haugen’s push against free speech online.

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg |

It’s Week Six of MRC’s new video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week, we talked about how Big Tech protects transgender content regardless of fact or fiction. But social media companies censor conservative content, accounts, and thought.