Free Speech

Joseph Vazquez | December 2, 2022

Twitter owner Elon Musk released damning documents exposing the extent of the platform’s efforts to squash the Hunter Biden laptop scandal first reported by the New York Post.

Journalist Matt Taibbi, who first reported on the documents…

Catherine Salgado | December 2, 2022

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) state media accounts criticized Republicans and defended Democrats on TikTok leading up to the 2022 midterm elections. That would seem to indicate  foreign interference in U.S. elections—and it’s been happening…

Paiten Iselin | December 2, 2022

Two years later, former Twitter Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth admitted censoring the bombshell New York Post Hunter Biden laptop story was a mistake.

On this week’s episode of CensorTrack with Paiten, we looked at the former Twitter…

Catherine Salgado | December 1, 2022

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has obtained hundreds of pages of new documentation as part of his investigation into the Biden administration’s defunct Disinformation Governance Board (DGB), which had attempted to censor Americans online.

Hawley…

Catherine Salgado | December 1, 2022

Big Tech giant Google is bankrolling the propaganda industry known as “fact-checking” to the tune of $13.2 million for a new fact-check fund, the behemoth announced Tuesday.

The money will go to the Poynter Institute’s notorious…

Autumn Johnson | December 1, 2022

Former Vice President Mike Pence praised Twitter owner Elon Musk’s decision to release internal Twitter files related to censorship on the platform.

Pence joined the panelists of the Fox News Channel’s Outnumbered to discuss Musk’s…

Autumn Johnson | November 30, 2022

Elon Musk is working to make Twitter a bastion of free speech–and Elizabeth Warren just isn’t having it.

Fox News reported that the Democratic senator criticized Musk’s decision to end unfair censorship on the platform, claiming that “one…

Catherine Salgado | November 30, 2022

Maria Ressa is a Nobel Peace prize winner, an author–and a supporter of increased restrictions of online free speech.

Nobel Peace Prize winner and author Maria Ressa came on CBS Mornings Nov. 28 to discuss her new book, How to Stand Up to…

Catherine Salgado | November 30, 2022

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) just banned the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-tied app TikTok in her state for state employees and agencies. 

Following recent revelations that Chinese employees at TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance…

Joseph Vazquez | November 30, 2022

That The Washington Post can claim with a straight face that there was “no proof” of Twitter censoring conservatives when the Media Research Center has been documenting individual cases of censorship for over two years is simply ridiculous.…

Autumn Johnson | November 29, 2022

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says the White House’s plans to monitor Elon Musk’s pro-free speech policy changes at Twitter are "offensive." 

Fox News reported Tuesday that McCarthy discussed a number of topics, but…

Gabriela Pariseau | November 29, 2022

While Americans were getting ready for Thanksgiving, Twitter was quietly dissolving its COVID-19 content policy. 

In a recent transparency report, the platform noted that as of November 23, “Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-…

Catherine Salgado | November 29, 2022

“[Apple] is providing aid and comfort to the CCP.” Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) slammed Apple for kowtowing to the Chinese communist government while simultaneously trying to squash free speech in America by potentially banning Twitter from the App…

Autumn Johnson | November 29, 2022

Twitter owner Elon Musk said the fight for free speech against one-sided censorship is “a battle for the future of civilization.”

If civilization is to survive, Musk said that free speech must be a top priority not just for the United…

Catherine Salgado | November 28, 2022

Twitter owner Elon Musk announced that files on “free speech suppression” at Twitter will soon be made public, which could include information related to the platform’s sordid censorship of the 2020 Hunter Biden laptop scandal.

A Twitter…

Gabriela Pariseau | November 28, 2022

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre sent a veiled threat Monday to Twitter owner Elon Musk when she claimed that the The White House is “monitoring” Twitter after Musk took over the platform. 

When asked about the White…

Catherine Salgado | November 28, 2022

Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) warned that Chinese-owned social media app TikTok is as addictive and dangerous as “fentanyl” for children.

The fentanyl epidemic in America claims lives every day. But Gallagher says that TikTok is the…

Gabriela Pariseau | November 28, 2022

Pianist and author Daryl Davis said “[w]e need to cancel cancel culture” online in an interview with Turning Point U.S.A. contributor and host of “The Spillover” Podcast Alex Clark. 

“Everybody needs a platform,” Davis told Clark on…

Autumn Johnson | November 27, 2022

Online tax filing services are reportedly sharing the sensitive financial information of Americans with Facebook.

In a co-published report with The Markup, The Verge reported on Tuesday that major online tax preparers like H&R Block,…

Autumn Johnson | November 27, 2022

On Friday afternoon's CNN Newsroom, CNN intelligence and security analyst and former CIA official Robert Baer responded to Elon Musk’s new pro-free speech policies on Twitter by disturbingly slamming free speech as “nonsense.”

Our…