Free Speech

Autumn Johnson | March 26, 2022

Podcaster Joe Rogan said that “woke” employees of Big Tech companies like Facebook and Twitter are “mentally ill.”

The New York Post reported that Rogan made the comment on his Spotify podcast during an interview with Antonio García…

Autumn Johnson | March 25, 2022

Tesla’s Elon Musk tweeted in support of free speech and questioned Twitter’s “adherence” to it.

Musk asked his followers to vote “yes” or “no” in a poll that asked users whether the platform supported free speech. “Free speech is…

Catherine Salgado | March 25, 2022

Patreon just paid “lib service” to free speech. Patreon has reportedly banned two political commentators from its platform.

The online payments company suspended BlazeTV’s “You Are Here” host Sydney Watson and Wrong Opinion podcast host…

Autumn Johnson | March 24, 2022

UPDATE: A YouTube spokesperson provided NewsBusters with the following statement after the removal:

“We removed content from the CPAC channel for violating our election integrity policy, which prohibits content that…

Alexander Hall | March 24, 2022

At it again? Former Democratic presidential candidate and Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard torched Big Tech companies, saying she was censored again for cautioning against the U.S. going to war. 

Fox News’s Ingraham Angle host Laura…

Joseph Vazquez | March 24, 2022

Twitter mashed its SHUT UP button on Christian satire site The Babylon Bee.

Twitter’s latest episode in its ongoing campaign to silence The Bee involved reportedly locking its founder Adam Ford out of his account for simply trolling the…

Catherine Salgado | March 24, 2022

To lobby, or not to lobby? That’s no longer a question for pro-censorship Twitter. A group of tech companies, including Twitter, are looking to push their policy objectives. Pro-censorship Twitter and Vimeo are among five companies forming the “…

Autumn Johnson | March 24, 2022

Twitter censored The Federalist’s reporting and warned that links to the publication’s reporting “may be unsafe.”

According to The Federalist, Twitter displayed the following message to users who attempted to access the publication’s…

Autumn Johnson | March 23, 2022

The Department of Justice requested that Google be sanctioned in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit.

The basis of the suit was surrounded by the argument that Google was a monopoly. Reclaim The Net reported that the DOJ alleged in a pleading…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | March 23, 2022

It’s Episode 30 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how Facebook censored Heritage Action’s video compilation of President Joe Biden praising his anti-American energy plan. 

On March 10, Heritage Action, a grassroots…

Alexander Hall | March 23, 2022

Twitter censored Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk for declaring that United States Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine had lived for many years as a male. 

Who’s the man? It depends on who you ask, apparently. “Charlie…

Brian Bradley | March 22, 2022

Conservatives should pare down the several pending Big Tech reform bills into one or two pieces of legislation that can garner broad support if/when Republicans win control of Congress.

That’s according to American Principles Project (APP…

Alexander Hall | March 22, 2022

Former Attorney General Bill Barr slammed Big Tech and President Joe Biden for mislabeling the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation. 

Once again, the Russian disinformation excuse for leftist scandals has been revealed…

Catherine Salgado | March 22, 2022

The Media Research Center (MRC) is proud to announce the addition of a new partner to the Free Speech Alliance, The Heritage Foundation. “Big Tech is an enemy of the American people,” Heritage President Kevin Roberts said in a press release.…

Joseph Vazquez | March 22, 2022

Internet traffic cop NewsGuard outed itself as a pathetic joke by giving perfect grades to outlets that tried to quash the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Left-wing news organizations Politico, The Washington Post, Axios and USA Today all…

Joseph Vazquez | March 21, 2022

MRC Free Speech America’s CensorTrack database reached an important milestone as it continues to monitor the war Big Tech companies have waged on free speech online.

CensorTrack has now surpassed 3,500 total censorship cases documented by…

Autumn Johnson | March 20, 2022

The chief executive of a megafund dedicated to health care workers attacked Facebook for allowing “misinformation.”

Debby Blakey is chief executive of HESTA, a megafund worth $68 billion.

Blakey called for more regulation of the…

Autumn Johnson | March 20, 2022

Twitter locked The Babylon Bee’s account Sunday evening.

The platform locked the account after the satire site posted that Rachel Levine was the site’s “Man of the Year.” Levine is a transgender woman.

The Bee’s CEO Seth Dillon…

Autumn Johnson | March 20, 2022

Twitter appeared to block links posted on the platform that linked to a Daily Mail article questioning the number of deaths caused by COVID-19 in the U.K.

The article was written by Eve Simmons, the Daily Mail’s deputy health editor, and…

Autumn Johnson | March 20, 2022

Correction: The name of the transgender swimmer is Lia Thomas.

Twitter has flagged tweets from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the wake of his comments on two transgender women.

According to the Washington Examiner, Paxton…