Free Speech

Autumn Johnson | August 14, 2021

Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies says Google altered its news algorithm to directly target former President Donald Trump. Vorhis was a senior software engineer at YouTube and Google. He left after discovering the companies censored…

Autumn Johnson | August 13, 2021

Snopes co-founder David Mikkelson has been accused of publishing plagiarized articles under a false name.

Autumn Johnson | August 13, 2021

Three Australian publishers have accused Facebook of taking their content for its newly-launched news service without compensation.

Alec Schemmel | August 13, 2021

Demonetization, the act of prohibiting channels from profiting off their videos, is one of YouTube’s censorship tools used against creators. Grabien Founder and Editor Tom Elliott “suspected this was coming.” Elliott said the company, which…

Gabriela Pariseau | August 13, 2021

Fox News host Tucker Carlson said that mainstream news outlets should consider it their “duty” to reject Big Tech censorship before ultimately claiming “that's not going to happen.”

Alec Schemmel | August 12, 2021

The new free speech-oriented video-sharing platform said it has experienced massive growth in recent months. “In just the past year, Rumble has experienced over a 25-fold increase in viewership – with no indication of slowing,” the platform said…

Alexander Hall | August 12, 2021

Big Tech’s greatest enemy may be bipartisan legislation, as politicians from both sides of the aisle unite to introduce the Open App Markets Act.

Casey Ryan | August 12, 2021

President Joe Biden is at odds with the First Amendment. His administration has reportedly pressured Facebook for several months to censor Americans who post views contradicting the administration’s COVID-19 narrative. The First Amendment…

Alexander Hall | August 11, 2021

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) roasted PolitiFact after the Facebook fact-checker tried to pretend it knew more about Texas law than Cruz did. Cruz reportedly proclaimed that there was “clear legal authority” to arrest Democratic legislators who fled…

Gabriela Pariseau | August 11, 2021

YouTube appeared to remove Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) video protesting the platform’s censorship and reportedly suspended him for seven days. “Apparently, because I dared to contradict Dr. Fauci and the government YouTube removed my video,” Paul…

Alec Schemmel | August 11, 2021

Four school board meetings, collectively from Connecticut, Illinois and Washington, were removed from YouTube within an eight-day period last month for violating the platform’s “COVID-19 medical misinformation policy.” Big Tech’s censorship…

Alexander Hall | August 10, 2021

Fact-checking doesn’t rely on facts. It often pushes a liberal narrative on everything from abortion to the coronavirus. PolitiFact and other so-called fact-checkers have a history of fact-checking factually true statements that don't suit…

Alexander Hall | August 10, 2021

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly backed far-left candidates with “dark money” over the past few years, and the Capital Research Center said he went to great lengths to hide his donations from the public. 

Alexander Hall | August 9, 2021

Facebook’s approved fact-checker PolitiFact rated a graphic from the Media Research Center as “FALSE,” even though the image merely shared a chart from the Center for Disease Control.

Autumn Johnson | August 8, 2021

At least eight GOP-controlled states have passed bans on donations to election offices in order to deter Big Tech influence. Last year, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg donated $400 million to election offices during the…

Autumn Johnson | August 7, 2021

Erickson was commenting on a post about the suspension of conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey, who had been suspended days before for the same violation.

Autumn Johnson | August 6, 2021

Twitter has temporarily restricted the account of Liz Harrington, chief spokeswoman to former President Donald Trump (who is also a former MRC intern and former CNS News reporter). Twitter said the account was restricted because it contained “…

Gabriela Pariseau | August 6, 2021

There’s a new form of COVID control — a Yelp search. Yelp introduced a new woke filter that allows consumers to identify and visit businesses that refuse potential customers who have not received a vaccination. The company will even prevent…

Alec Schemmel | August 6, 2021

The resulting violation of privacy is so far-reaching that there’s now a debate over the ethics of Apple’s plans. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which describes itself as “the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in…

Gabriela Pariseau | August 6, 2021

Leftists are furious that Facebook disabled research accounts analyzing the “spread of misinformation on the platform,” according to Cybersecurity for Democracy. The real furor is because the left uses “misinformation” as a synonym for…