Free Speech

Tom Olohan, Gabriela Pariseau | November 21, 2024

After failing to stop the return of former President Donald Trump to the White House, Google appears to have settled for going after his cabinet-level nominees. 

On Nov. 19, MRC researchers searched Google for names of each of Trump’…

Catherine Salgado | November 21, 2024

Amid the furor over the 2024 election, many leftists abandoned pro-free speech X for a social media alternative, and the results are stunning.

Platform Bluesky is attempting to cater to its most anti-free speech users, claiming it will…

Donald Perkins | November 20, 2024

Daily Wire podcast host and renowned psychologist Jordan Peterson called on President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Federal Communications Commission to address a major secretive aspect of social media censorship.

During a…

Gabriela Pariseau | November 19, 2024

Facebook disabled an Israeli national news outlet without a clear reason. 

Arutz Sheva reported on Nov. 10 that Facebook had suspended its page with 151,999 followers due to alleged complaints from other users. When the article was…

Donald Perkins | November 19, 2024

MSNBC anchor Jen Psaki lamented the rise of popularity in Americans obtaining unfiltered news and opinion from online social media platforms without so-called fact checking. The horror!

During a recent interview on the Next Question with…

Catherine Salgado | November 19, 2024

Is tech giant Google once again pulling strings in a secretive post-election effort to sabotage the incoming Trump administration?

The Washington Free Beacon announced on Nov. 18 that it had obtained an invite issued for a summit in…

Catherine Salgado | November 18, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump has taken MRC’s advice and selected a free speech advocate with a record of taking on Big Tech censorship as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission in a major blow to the anti-free speech Silicon Valley…

Catherine Salgado | November 15, 2024

Following Republicans’ 2024 election victory in taking the presidency and Congress, a top House Republican is promising an end to the censorship industrial complex.

House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan (R-OH), who has investigated…

Donald Perkins | November 15, 2024

Podcast host Joe Rogan celebrated President-elect Donald Trump's pledge to end the censorship regime against American citizens while sharing the reluctance of artists to show support for the Republican candidate. 

During the Nov. 14…

Catherine Salgado | November 15, 2024

The chair of the House Judiciary Committee is insisting that the Federal Bureau of Investigation come clean about the censorship tools it may still be using against Americans. 

The New York Post obtained a November letter that House…

Joseph Vazquez | November 15, 2024

Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr utilized Media Research Center analysis to put Big Tech and so-called media ratings firm NewsGuard on notice.

Carr sent a letter Wednesday to the respective CEOs of Google, Microsoft, Meta…

Donald Perkins | November 15, 2024

Blaze TV CEO Glenn Beck called the federal government’s role in pressuring social media companies to acquiesce to its censorship demands a“constitutional crime.” 

During the Nov. 11 episode of The Glenn Beck Program, Beck was joined…

Gabriela Pariseau | November 15, 2024

Nearly two years ago, President-elect Donald Trump taped a video outlining his plan to “shatter the left-wing censorship regime” and “reclaim the right to free speech for all Americans.” But ironically, due to Big Tech censorship, many Americans…

Craig Bannister | November 14, 2024

The importance of retaining their First Amendment right to free speech weighed heavily on the minds of voters in this year’s elections – just as Americans had warned candidates it would.

Last month, a FIRE/NORC survey revealed that nearly…

Catherine Salgado | November 14, 2024

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) ordered the outgoing Biden-Harris administration to preserve documents related to its censorship collusion with Big Tech, among other ominous federal activities.

Johnson and a group of GOP lawmakers wrote…

Joseph Vazquez | November 14, 2024

Talk about election denialism! A whiny columnist for The Chicago Tribune is trying to convince herself that the only reason President-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 election was because of disinformation. Yawn.

Sabrina Haake, a freelance…

Donald Perkins | November 13, 2024

Entrepreneur and PBD podcast host Patrick Bet-David expressed his hope that a Trump administration would finally end the Biden-Harris censorship regime.

Bet-David joined the Keeping It Real podcast with host Jillian Michaels on Nov. 11 to…

Tom Olohan, Michael Morris | November 13, 2024

Sen. John Thune (R-SD) ultimately was elected to lead Republicans as they took a majority in the Senate following the 2024 election red wave. But what transpired before today’s leadership vote surrounding free speech and censorship contextualizes…

Catherine Salgado | November 13, 2024

The Brookings Institution, an entity substantially funded by Big Tech and leftist billionaire George Soros, is whining for increased censorship in the wake of the 2024 election.

On Nov. 7, Brookings senior fellow Darrell West asserted…

Tom Olohan | November 13, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump may have overcome Google’s election interference, but the search giant continues to rig presidential race search results. 

The Media Research Center found that Google provided a desert of left and legacy…