Free Speech

NewsGuard co-CEO Steven Brill claimed that NewsGuard’s goal is “not to block anything,” but “just [to] give people straight information.” However, in a recent interview, he revealed NewsGuard’s real game of demonetizing anything the “credibility…

YouTube censored the “Ukraine on Fire” (2016) documentary showing the purported history of U.S. involvement in Ukraine. 

YouTube Policy Communications Manager Ivy Choi told MRC Free Speech America that “We removed this video for…

President Joe Biden signed an executive order to ensure government oversight of cryptocurrency and to ensure that it is “equitable” for groups categorized as historically marginalized.

Does anything escape government control in this…

Does biased NewsGuard automatically favor state-affiliated media? The liberal online “credibility” arbiter gave seven traditionally non-autocratic state-affiliated media outlets around the world an average score of 98.6/100.

MRC Free…

It’s Episode 28 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how YouTube censored The Hill for reporting on the news, and censored Media Research Center for posting about the shift of national COVID-19 conversation. 

The Hill…

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas called upon his fellow justices to rethink how a 1996 law protects Big Tech companies from liability on their platforms. 

Thomas may have opened Pandora’s Box for Big Tech CEOs by calling to take…

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said she’s happy that NewsGuard highly rates some news outlets that have been critical of her. And her group’s new partner was right by her side.

During a webinar Thursday, she…

Live-streaming platform Twitch is reportedly instituting stricter bans on “misinformation,” including supposed COVID-19 “misinformation” according to a report from last week.

Amazon-owned Twitch is banning “'harmful misinformation…

TikTok is suspending new videos and livestreams from Russia, citing the Russian government’s new “fake news” laws. 

TikTok entered new territory to comply with “fake news” laws. “[I]n light of Russia's new ‘fake news’ law, we have no…

Snapchat launched a show aimed at challenging media that is “hostile” to transgender identity.

The platform partnered with Pink News, a popular UK-based site for LGBT+ news, to host “Pure Trans Joy.”

“Young trans and non-binary…

Visa and Mastercard have suspended operations in Russia as tensions escalate in the war with Ukraine.

The effort was aims to crack down on Russia and encourage an end to the war.

“Visa will work with its clients and partners…

Russia reportedly banned the BBC to stop the spread of so-called “misinformation” regarding its war against Ukraine.

According to Reuters, Putin has complained that western media organizations have unfairly covered the conflict.

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In an interview Thursday with The New York Times, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy demanded Big Tech platforms turn over so-called “misinformation” about COVID-19 by May 2, saying they “have the opportunity to be open and transparent…

If tech giant Google succeeds in a new project, devices will not even need cameras to track a user’s every movement.

What if your thermostat reminded you to take an umbrella with you, or your TV automatically paused your Netflix show when…

The infamous podcast host and mega free-speech advocate Joe Rogan interviewed former Islamist turned counter-extremism activist, Maajid Nawaz. 

Rogan, host of The Joe Rogan Experience, did a three-hour interview with author and…

Twitter locked Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s (R-MO) personal Twitter account for a tweet denouncing transgender athletes’ participation in women’s sports. 

Hartzler tweeted: “Women’s Sports are for Women, not men pretending to be women,”…

The Media Research Center and more than 40 other conservative leaders warned governors about the left-wing bias of ratings firm NewsGuard.

The joint letter, signed by MRC founder and President Brent Bozell and dozens of other free speech…

UPDATE: YouTube records suggest that An0maly's video "Ron DeSantis Goes VIRAL For Telling Kids That Masks Are Optional At Press Conference" has since been restored on the platform following the controversy documented below.

“‘Fact checking’ is just a euphemism for the Ministry of Truth. It is not about 'facts,'” journalist Kyle Becker tweeted about biased NewsGuard.

Becker News CEO Kyle Becker pointed out on Twitter that the rating site NewsGuard partners…

Rachel Bovard, Conservative Partnership Institute’s senior director of policy, said Big Tech has changed everything about us.

In an interview with The Daily Signal, Bovard said Big Tech has fundamentally changed human nature as well…