Free Speech

NB Staff | July 21, 2022

Appearing late Wednesday/early Thursday on the Fox News Channel’s Fox News @ Night, MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell shared the findings of Free Speech America’s (FSA) blockbuster study on secondhand censorship by Big Tech, saying the…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | July 20, 2022

It’s Episode 47 of CensorTrack with TR. This week, we talked about how Big Tech is unabashedly anti-American. 

Earlier this month, Nextdoor censored one user’s Fourth of July post. Nextdoor is a social media app designed to help…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

America is increasingly outraged by the manner in which radical Big Tech leftists are censoring conservative and Christian leaders and organizations on nearly every major social media platform. 

But what is the…

Craig Bannister | July 19, 2022

“[W]e have concluded that there is no need for a Disinformation Governance Board,” DHS’s Homeland Security Advisory Council’s Disinformation Best Practices and Safeguards Subcommittee says in its final interim recommendation, released Monday.…

Catherine Salgado | July 19, 2022

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is reportedly planning to counter-sue Twitter in an ongoing legal battle over the billionaire’s halted purchase of the social media company.

Musk has attempted to stop his purchase of Twitter after he said the company…

Joseph Vazquez | July 19, 2022

A new data release by the liberal American Civil Liberties Union appears to expose nefarious Big Government data-mining happening right under your nose.

The ACLU issued a report July 18 headlined, “New Records Detail DHS Purchase and Use…

Catherine Salgado | July 18, 2022

Reddit moderators made a woke interpretation of their platform’s general guidelines to censor the word “groomer.” 

Meanwhile, two LGBTQ+ outlets are apparently so eager for increased online censorship that they praised the muzzling…

Autumn Johnson | July 17, 2022

MRC Free Speech America board advisor Rachel Bovard says Google is using user data to further its own political agenda.

In an op-ed with the New York Post, Bovard, the senior policy director at the Conservative Partnership Institute,…

Autumn Johnson | July 17, 2022

The Department of Justice is reportedly planning to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google.

Bloomberg News reported that the DOJ is unhappy with concessions the company offered to avoid a fine.

DOJ officials reportedly hold that…

Autumn Johnson | July 16, 2022

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has a message for the world: Fighting back against misinformation is “a matter of life and death.”

Guterres on July 12 told the UN Security Council that reliable information is a human right.

Catherine Salgado | July 15, 2022

Woke pro-LGBTQ group GLAAD just gave five Big Tech platforms a failing score on LGBTQ “safety” online. 

“They don’t have enforcement,” GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis claimed July 14 on CBS Mornings.

Radical LGBTQ+ organization…

Joseph Vazquez | July 15, 2022

Twitter exploited the death of Ivana Trump, allowing users to take a disgusting potshot at her ex-husband.

Following news about the death of former President Donald Trump’s ex-wife, an “In memoriam” item trended on the platform: “Ivana…

Gabriela Pariseau | July 15, 2022

What do the words “God Bless America,” “Spam” and “Discrimination” have in common? One might think the answer is “absolutely nothing,” but not so on the Nextdoor app.

Nextdoor is a social media app designed to help users connect with…

Catherine Salgado | July 14, 2022

“Free speech itself was under attack.”

Former Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) wrote this in a piece for Mises Institute about the U.S. government’s potential role in driving Twitter’s ban last year of journalist Alex Berenson. The platform…

Joseph Vazquez | July 14, 2022

UPDATE: MRC Free Speech America reached out to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for more detailed information on Gerson Fuentes regarding his status. An ICE spokesperson gave MRC the following statement: “On July 13, officers with U.…

Autumn Johnson | July 14, 2022

A federal court judge granted Missouri and Louisiana’s motion for expedited discovery in a blow to the Biden administration.

President Biden and several members of his administration are named as defendants in the lawsuit.

Reclaim…

Autumn Johnson | July 14, 2022

Amazon’s Ring security system is facing criticism after reports surfaced that the system shared user data without consent.

Axios reported that the doorbell system admitted to sharing user information with law enforcement without consent.…

Catherine Salgado | July 13, 2022

[Editor's Note: This story has been changed to note that RuthSentUs is a parody Twitter account. A previous version of this story wrongly referred to the account as "radical pro-abortion protestors."]

The RuthSentUs and Antifa Sacramento…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | July 13, 2022

It’s Episode 46 of CensorTrack with TR. This week, we talked about how Big Tech censored Jordan Peterson and David Rubin for using the given name of a “transgender” person. 

Peterson is an author, psychologist and podcaster who is…

Catherine Salgado | July 13, 2022

A Washington free speech advocate lashed into two Democratic Party senators this week who recently challenged Facebook for censoring pro-abortion posts.

“Big Tech monopolists regularly censor and silence conservatives, and Democrats don’t…