Brian Bradley is the Associate Editor for Media Research Center's Free Speech America and MRC Business. Prior to this position, Brian covered several business topics in our nation’s capital, including education, trade and defense.
Republican lawmakers tore into Big Tech for censoring the New York Post’s October 2020 Hunter Biden laptop story on Thursday after The New York Times tied files on the computer to a federal investigation.
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.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) both called on President Joe Biden to take stronger action to protect children online as Biden delivered his State of the Union address on Tuesday.
NewsGuard CEO Steven Brill this week painted his company as a white knight that can save impressionable dupes from repeating another Jan. 6 “insurrection,” and said Fox News and OANN traffic in conspiracy theories.
NewsGuard has reaffirmed its perfect rating of BuzzFeed News, even though the outlet continues to host the bogus Steele dossier on its website.
Free speech advocates cautioned about giving the government and university researchers exclusive authority over social media data as lawmakers expect to soon consider a proposal to force new information disclosures from Big Tech.
