Free Speech

Gabriela Pariseau | March 19, 2025

A CNN poll reveals a record-low favorability rating for the Democratic Party at 29%, with censorship being a major concern for voters. Americans see free speech as crucial, especially as Big Tech is accused of censoring issues from transgenderism…

Catherine Salgado | March 17, 2025

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan is investigating yet another realm of potential Big Tech-government coordination to crush free speech.

Catherine Salgado | March 17, 2025

Federal bureaucrats who spent years targeting Americans’ free speech are now full of consternation as the Trump administration restores the First Amendment.

Michael Morris | March 14, 2025

MRC Free Speech America report highlights the alarming level of government censorship during the Biden administration, with 57 initiatives targeting free speech. These initiatives involved collaboration with Big Tech, funding of censorship groups…

Catherine Salgado | March 14, 2025

The European Union is preparing to issue a central bank digital currency that could easily be weaponized as a censorship tool, and its launch could come as soon as October 2025.

Tom Olohan | March 14, 2025

Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson clarified during a CNBC interview that the FTC will not lighten up on investigating Big Tech monopolies under President Donald Trump. 

Catherine Salgado | March 13, 2025

A significant free speech shake-up at Meta after President Donald Trump‘s election is about to bring major censorship changes to social media.

Catherine Salgado | March 13, 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this month that Meta had to respond to a petition regarding its infamous COVID-19 censorship collusion with the previous administration.

President Joe Biden and his administration spent four years continuously attacking the First Amendment and the free speech rights enshrined by the nation’s Founders. 

The Biden administration’s censorship efforts ran the gamut from…

Secretary of State Tony Blinken spearheaded the GEC’s creation of the deceptively-named “The Framework to Counter Foreign State Information Manipulation.” The Framework, a formal compact between powerful sovereign nations, called for the funding…

Under President Joe Biden, the National Security Council (NSC) conducted extensive collaboration with the United Kingdom (U.K.)’s Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU), a foreign government censorship agency.

The Biden administration acted swiftly to destroy the “Fair Access Rule,” one of the key free speech protections instituted by his predecessor (and successor). 

One of several censorship initiatives conducted out of the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Agency was the process known as “switchboarding.” Both before and after the 2020 election — including well into the Biden administration — CISA would…

Despite its innocuous name, “Track F” of the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Convergence Accelerator was one of the Biden administration’s most ambitious efforts to build artificial intelligence (AI) weapons of mass deletion.

Under Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attempted to create a ministry of truth, to be named the “Disinformation Governance Board.” The Board would have coordinated censorship activities…

The Biden administration’s highly touted “Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence” was written to favor censorship-obsessed Google and its vendetta against open source artificial…

Predating and separate from its ham-fisted efforts to impose artificial intelligence (AI) censorship through official policymaking (see Initiative #7), the Biden administration labored to impose speech codes through partnerships with Big Tech…

As well as running afoul of the First Amendment, the Biden administration’s extensive partnership with AI developers to collude in creating a censorship-minded AI model (see Initiative #8) raised serious antitrust concerns. It is unsurprising,…

The Department of Defense’s intelligence agencies created a censorship algorithm to suppress speech contrary to their agenda. The “Influence Campaign and Sensemaking Awareness” project began as part of a $59.5 million program on informational…

A Media Research Center report detailed the Biden administration’s extensive ties to the censorship outfit NewsGuard, which works with Big Tech firms to cut off access and ad revenue to right-of-center media outlets. Though NewsGuard presented…