Free Speech

Corinne Weaver | September 14, 2018
Even though Twitter apparently promotes “healthy conversation,” conservatives who work there are afraid to express their opinions. In an interview on NYU liberal journalism Professor Jay Rosen’s podcast, posted on Recode, Twitter…
Corinne Weaver | September 13, 2018
It just got a lot harder to believe that Google doesn’t have any bias against conservatives. After Tucker Carlson released a leaked email from a Google director saying that the company tried to influence Latino voters, Breitbart released…
Corinne Weaver | September 12, 2018
The media don’t  care about online censorship -- unless it happens to them. The liberal site ThinkProgress cried foul after it was fact checked for a story it posted on Facebook involving Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The…
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.
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.
Corinne Weaver | September 10, 2018
Google’s approach to hate speech is heavy-handed to say the least.
Corinne Weaver | September 10, 2018
Apparently questioning someone’s intelligence counts as hate speech.
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.  

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.
Corinne Weaver | September 5, 2018
Denial might be a river in Egypt but today it looked an awful lot like the Potomac.
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 Facebook…
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?
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.
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 Times…
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 week, on…
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.
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.…