Free Speech

Autumn Johnson | November 27, 2022

Last week, White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha blamed social media users for spreading so-called misinformation related to the virus.

Reuters reported that Jha warned Americans during Tuesday's White House press briefing…

Autumn Johnson | November 26, 2022

Elon Musk said in a series of tweets that Twitter’s decision to permanently ban former President Donald J. Trump was a big mistake.

Musk was discussing Trump’s decision not to tweet after his reinstatement. He argued that Trump’s…

Autumn Johnson | November 26, 2022

Liberal activists have lost their minds over Elon Musk’s so-called “amnesty” plan for Twitter.

NewsBusters reported Friday that Elon Musk’s new Twitter policy will offer “general amnesty” to suspended accounts as long as they do not break…

Autumn Johnson | November 26, 2022

Elon Musk says he will create a new cell phone if Twitter gets booted from Apple and Google’s app stores because of its new pro-free speech policies.

Conservative commentator Liz Wheeler tweeted that Musk should create a new phone if…

Autumn Johnson | November 25, 2022

Writers at the Washington Post are outraged that Elon Musk is making pro-free speech changes to Twitter.

Technology reporters at The Post wrote an article Tuesday blasting Musk’s decisions that have monumentally changed the…

Autumn Johnson | November 25, 2022

Elon Musk says Twitter helped progressive candidates win their elections.

Musk was responding to a tweet discussing the censorship of conservative candidates on the platform in order to boost liberal ones. He promised that the company…

Catherine Salgado | November 25, 2022

Twitter CEO  Elon Musk agreed that it’s been conservatives, not leftists, who overwhelmingly bore the brunt of Twitter’s Orwellian censorship operation.

Filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza tweeted Nov. 21, “We don’t hear much about Democrats…

Autumn Johnson | November 25, 2022

Elon Musk wrote that Twitter will offer “general amnesty” to censored accounts as long as they do not break the law or engage in “egregious” spam.

He first asked Twitter users to vote in a poll about “general amnesty:” 

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Autumn Johnson | November 24, 2022

This week, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the court-ordered depositions of three Biden administration officials in a lawsuit targeting social media censorship.

The New York Post reported Monday that the court temporarily…

Joseph Vazquez | November 23, 2022

The former head of President Joe Biden’s defunct Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board found a new gig by registering as a foreign agent to fight so-called “disinformation."

Former DGB Executive Director Nina Jankowicz said in a Nov…

Paiten Iselin | November 23, 2022

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew joined Bloomberg News to double down on the anti-American company’s censorship policies.

On this week’s episode of CensorTrack with Paiten, we looked at Chew’s defense of TikTok’s anti-American and anti-free speech…

Catherine Salgado | November 23, 2022

“It is a CCP, a Chinese Communist Party spy app, and Americans are using it. They should get off.” Heritage Foundation’s Kara Frederick emphasized the national security risks of TikTok on Fox News Tuesday.

There is an increasing…

Catherine Salgado | November 22, 2022

The G20 Summit in Bali buried an endorsement of censoring “disinformation” in its Leaders’ Declaration. The declaration, posted on the White House website, came as the Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general have sued the Biden administration…

Catherine Salgado | November 21, 2022

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt on Fox News characterized nearly four dozen officials in the Biden administration as working against the First Amendment’s “fundamental, God-given right to express ourselves.” 

“It's important…

Autumn Johnson | November 21, 2022

Thierry Breton, the European Union’s internal market commissioner, said the bloc will require Elon Musk to add moderators in Europe to censor content.

Bloomberg News reported Friday that Breton criticized Musk’s decision to lay off…

Autumn Johnson | November 20, 2022

Last week, several Senate Democrats wrote a letter asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate new Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s major changes at the platform.

The authors of a letter sent to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week…

Autumn Johnson | November 20, 2022

Elon Musk says Twitter’s new speech policy is “freedom of speech,” not “freedom of reach.”

Musk made the announcement Friday on his Twitter account.

“New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach,” he tweeted…

Autumn Johnson | November 19, 2022

UPDATE: CBS News returned to Twitter just two days after it paused its account on Friday. CBS News's communications team tweeted Sunday: "After pausing for much of the weekend to assess the security concerns, CBS News and Stations is resuming its…

Autumn Johnson | November 19, 2022

On Saturday, Twitter boss Elon Musk reinstated former President Donald J. Trump’s Twitter account after 52 percent of voters in a Twitter poll he created voted that the former president should come back. Over 15 million users voted in the…

Catherine Salgado | November 18, 2022

Gaming giants Riot Games and Ubisoft are not playing around—they have partnered for a new research project to censor supposed “toxicity” in gaming chats. It’s nothing new for big technology companies, except for the fact that Riot is owned by a…