Free Speech

NB Staff | September 12, 2018

RESTON, VA – Today, the Media Research Center (MRC) said Congress must hold hearings to investigate Google for possibly trying to fix the presidential election following a bombshell report by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Monday night. The…

Corinne Weaver | September 12, 2018

After a bombshell report was dropped by Tucker Carlson and Breitbart about Google using its influence in the 2016 elections, conservatives have major concerns.

On America’s Newsroom, House Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told…

Corinne Weaver | September 11, 2018

In 2016, some at Google allegedly realized that it had “political power” and tried to flex it against President Trump.

An exclusive report broken by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on his show, Tucker Carlson Tonight,  …

Corinne Weaver | September 10, 2018

Google’s approach to hate speech is heavy-handed to say the least.

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Google Play Store, the app store for Android cell phones, recently decided to crack down on its hate-speech policy. Recently, Gab.ai, a social…

Corinne Weaver | September 10, 2018

Apparently questioning someone’s intelligence counts as hate speech.  Twitter has decided to crack down on just that (but only when conservatives do it.) On Sept., CIA security contractor Kris Paranto was suspended from Twitter for…

Corinne Weaver | September 7, 2018

In an unsurprising reversal, Twitter decided to ban conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and InfoWars from its platform as of Sept. 6.

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Citing instances that “violate our abusive behavior policy,” Twitter Safety announced that…

Corinne Weaver | September 6, 2018

Big tech companies have been trying to say that they don’t favor one political ideology over another. But their users don’t agree.

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An Axios poll, released on Sept. 6, showed that a large number of people…

Corinne Weaver | September 5, 2018

Denial might be a river in Egypt but today it looked an awful lot like the Potomac.

At the Energy and Commerce hearing about Twitter on Sept. 5, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey answered many questions about his platform, but one topic he…

Gabriel Hays | September 5, 2018

During Wednesday’s Senate hearing concerning foreign influence on social media platforms, Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey stated that his goal in combating the proliferation of fake or misleading accounts was to amplify the voices of…

Corinne Weaver | September 5, 2018

It’s worth asking big tech companies whether they practice core American values on a global scale.

In the Sept. 5, Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on social media, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) asked Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and…

Corinne Weaver | September 4, 2018

Wouldn’t it be nice if Twitter allowed people to see posts from everyone they followed in the order that things were posted?

On September 2, TwitterSafety, one of the many official accounts of Twitter, posted a tweet thread…

NB Staff | September 4, 2018

RESTON, VA — On August 31, Media Research Center founder and president Brent Bozell sent individual letters to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC)…

Corinne Weaver | August 31, 2018

Twitter jumps on conservative content at the first opportunity. But how long does it take for the platform to remove actual threatening posts? If the target is conservative, the answer is too long.

On August 30, shortly after a memorial…

Corinne Weaver | August 31, 2018

A new study about Google News shows that while everyone gets the same results, five liberal news organizations “alone” made up 49 percent of the total recommendations from the respective experiments. The five were The New York…

Corinne Weaver | August 30, 2018

Public officials are still calling into question the practices of social media tech companies.

Both Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey are set to testify in front of both the House and Senate next…

Corinne Weaver | August 30, 2018

While Facebook rushes to focus on hate speech in the United States, apparently it hasn’t analyzed accounts from war-torn places like Myanmar.

Until recently, military personnel from Myanmar were allowed to have accounts on Facebook…

Gabriel Hays | August 29, 2018

MRC Vice President of Business and Culture Dan Gainor recently appeared on the Fox Business Network’s After the Bell to discuss President Donald Trump’s concerns about conservative censorship online and to call for "fairness…

Corinne Weaver | August 29, 2018

Google isn’t the only big tech company with internal issues.

Facebook apparently suffers from an internal ideological monopoly, where progressive thought reigns supreme. According to the New York Times, an employee published an memo…

Corinne Weaver | August 28, 2018

It turns out public relations actually mean something to a tech company.

After conservative outcry was sparked when NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch criticized Twitter for not suspending users who threatened her children, Twitter miraculously…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | August 28, 2018

The Trump administration is potentially considering taking action against Google for reportedly censoring conservatives, following a tweet by President Trump that accused Google of rigging its results against conservatives.

On Tuesday…