Free Speech

Joseph Vazquez | December 10, 2024

It looks like the Federal Communications Commission under Brendan Carr won’t be the only agency looking to tear down the government-backed dystopian activities of website traffic cop NewsGuard.

Federal Trade Commissioner Andrew Ferguson…

Catherine Salgado | December 10, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for artificial intelligence czar has drawn praise from free speech advocates, including Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski, because of his outspoken criticism of Big Tech censorship.

On Dec. 5, Trump announced…

Tim Kilcullen | December 10, 2024

The leader of the Media Research Center issued a warning to Congress about a “Trojan horse for the left’s agenda.”

In a statement posted today on X, MRC founder and president Brent Bozell cautioned Congress not to pass the new version of…

Catherine Salgado | December 9, 2024

The Biden-Harris administration has lavished millions of taxpayer dollars on research that drives online censorship of free speech, a damning report found.

The Biden-Harris administration has spent $267 million on research grants…

Catherine Salgado | December 7, 2024

Chinese-owned app TikTok lost its main bid to halt a ban at the D.C. Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

The federal law takes effect on Jan. 19, effectively banning the Communist Chinese government-tied app unless its parent company ByteDance…

Catherine Salgado | December 6, 2024

A member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has called for accountability for ad entities or “advertising cartels” actively crushing free speech.

FTC Commissioner Andrew Ferguson warned pro-censorship advertising and media ratings…

Catherine Salgado | December 6, 2024

The Heritage Foundation has warned Americans against believing that Big Tech oligarchs want substantive reform while censorship continues on.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai called President-elect Donald Trump in late November, Amazon.com owner…

Tom Olohan | December 6, 2024

MRC Free Speech America has caught Google rigging search results for President-elect Donald Trump’s most prominent nominees before, and the search engine is at it yet again. 

On Nov. 26 and Dec. 3, the MRC found an absurd ratio in…

Tom Olohan | December 5, 2024

MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider and the creators of a newly released documentary on free speech got to the heart of the decision that dealt a major blow to Big Tech censorship.

For the Dec. 4 edition of MRC…

Luis Cornelio | December 5, 2024

A top Meta executive admitted to what many have long affirmed: its social media platforms are stifling Americans’ free speech and then citing errors when called out.

Meta Global Affairs President Nick Clegg made this mea culpa-like…

Catherine Salgado | December 5, 2024

Before and after Election Day 2024, Big Tech platforms voted for election interference.

Google was the most egregious election censor, as MRC Free Speech America found the tech giant repeatedly burying right-leaning sources in search…

Tim Kilcullen | December 5, 2024

Big Tech’s censorship efforts just hit a yuuuge roadblock.

In a statement on Truth Social, incoming (and former) President Donald J. Trump announced that he will nominate competition hardliner Gail Slater to lead the Department of Justice…

Donald Perkins, Luis Cornelio | December 4, 2024

Federal Communications Commissioner and incoming Chair Brendan Carr is offering details on how he will succeed in his pledge to, once and for all, “smash” Big Tech’s censorship regime, including entities like NewsGuard.

Carr came out…

Luis Cornelio | December 3, 2024

Facebook pulled the trigger by suspending—and later reinstating—the page of one of the nation’s largest gun manufacturers.

The Mark Zuckerberg-owned social media platform targeted Smith & Wesson, a firearms manufacturer in business…

Catherine Salgado | December 2, 2024

Trump named Stanford epidemiologist and staunch free speech advocate Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead a major branch of the Department of Health and Human Services. 

Trump cited Bhattacharya’s prestigious career and his role in…

Catherine Salgado | December 2, 2024

Another alleged "error" came back to bite Facebook after it censored a Republican senator's post about releasing the Jeffrey Epstein flight logs. 

Controversy has surrounded talk of an alleged list of famous people who were involved…

Gabriela Pariseau | November 27, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump has announced his nominees for the most visible positions at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Each is a staunch free-speech advocate, except for one, his pick for surgeon general.

Trump and…

Catherine Salgado | November 27, 2024

Leftist panelists on CNN had an anti-free speech meltdown because X content is supposedly regulated less than CNN (spoiler alert, it’s not).

CNN pundit Scott Jennings ignited a firestorm on Monday’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip after he…

Donald Perkins | November 26, 2024

Trump’s FCC Chairman nominee Brendan Carr has his work cut out for him, explained a top Heritage Foundation researcher. 

In a recent interview with Fox News’s America’s Newsroom, Carr said that free speech will be one of his “top…

Tom Olohan | November 26, 2024

The clock is ticking on massively powerful, deceptive and independent artificial intelligence (AI) according to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. 

Schmidt made some disturbing comments on AI during the Nov. 24 edition of CNN’s Global…