Free Speech

Kayla Sargent | September 22, 2020

Facebook is too willing to censor political content from the right, but now, the site is preparing to restrict even more content on election night. 

In a recent interview with Financial Times, Nick Clegg, Facebook’s head of global…

Alexander Hall | September 22, 2020

Twitter seems to allow the Chinese government to spread propaganda, and now the communist nation can apparently make brazen threats against political enemies at its leisure too. Global Times, which has been labeled by Twitter as “China state…

Alexander Hall | September 22, 2020

Facebook allowed leftist organizations to post the purported private address of a conservative senator in order to organize protests and harass. The posting was a violation of its rules. “Protesters on Monday gathered outside South Carolina…

Kayla Sargent | September 22, 2020

The Department of Justice (DOJ) may now be one step closer to bringing down Google’s massive empire. The DOJ is expected to brief state attorneys general on plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google as early as this week, according…

Kayla Sargent | September 21, 2020

 

Just hours before President Donald Trump’s executive order banning the WeChat app was to go into effect, a federal judge blocked it.

 

On Sunday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler temporarily blocked Trump’s…

Alexander Hall | September 21, 2020

Big Tech is famous for censoring conservative speech, even as it allows leftist organizations to post the purported private address of a conservative senator in order to organize protests and intimidate.

Alec Schemmel | September 21, 2020

YouTube said it would revert back to using more human moderators to police speech across its platform after automation censored too much. The slated changes came after YouTube admitted to removing “the most videos we've ever removed in a single…

Kayla Sargent | September 21, 2020

It is fairly common for Twitter to censor or flag conservative content it deems offensive. Now, the platform has decided that a video discussing Christian love and truth constitutes sensitive material.

Twitter placed an interstitial, or…

Alexander Hall | September 21, 2020

Twitter labelled a meme parodying CNN coverage as “manipulated media” after it had been shared by President Donald Trump. Now a lawsuit is targeting the meme’s creator and Trump himself.

Joseph Vazquez | September 21, 2020

Big Tech giant Facebook informed the Media Research Center that it would be partnering with the nonpartisan digital encyclopedia Ballotpedia and the radical left-wing organization Democracy Works to help formulate the online platform’s 2020…

Alec Schemmel | September 18, 2020

Facebook’s left-wing fact-checking network censored yet another pro-Trump ad. The ad snarkily suggested that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden “accidentally” told the truth in stating that Americans taxes would be raised if he is elected…

Alexander Hall | September 18, 2020

Liberals and Big Tech supporters are panicking about a new potential FCC Commissioner who is reportedly a hawk about online censorship.

Kayla Sargent | September 18, 2020

It’s no secret that Twitter skews sharply to the left. A recent job change by a top employee of the platform shows why.

Alec Schemmel | September 17, 2020

American’s rights online have been trampled by major tech companies who have leveraged favorable government policy to suppress or censor user’s content without fear it will come back to hurt them.

Alexander Hall | September 17, 2020

World-famous podcast host Joe Rogan moved his massively popular and free talk show exclusively to the Spotify platform, and some of its staff members have been triggered ever since. “In a Spotify all-hands company meeting on Wednesday,…

NB Staff | September 17, 2020

Online censorship of conservatives is out of control, and the Media Research Center is doing something about it. The MRC just launched #FreeSpeechAmerica, designed to push back against Big Tech’s abuse of power.

Kayla Sargent | September 17, 2020

It's no secret that Americans have a complicated relationship with Big Tech, and a recent study from FleishmanHillard highlights just how complicated this relationship can be. FleishmanHillard, a St. Louis-based marketing agency and public…

Alexander Hall | September 17, 2020

Twitter proved — again — that it still can’t take a joke. This time the platform labelled a President Donald Trump tweet parody of former Vice President Joe Biden “Manipulated media.” Biden played “Despacito” at a mid-September rally to pander to…

Corinne Weaver | September 17, 2020

An ad that was part of the conservative PAC American Principles Project’s (APP PAC) $4 million campaign was labeled “missing context and could mislead people” by Facebook fact-checkers. NBC News wrote that the video, titled “Not Fair,” would…

Alec Schemmel | September 16, 2020

Twitter is apparently censoring accounts that tweet in support of famous Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, while also making additional moves to diminish that support. The day before Rowling released her new book “Troubled Blood,” “#RIPJKRowling…