Catherine Salgado
Contributing Writer/Contractor

Catherine Salgado is a Contributing Writer and former Staff Writer/Researcher with MRC Free Speech America. She also has a column, Washington's Bayonette, on The Rogue Review and her own SubStack newsletter, Pro Deo et Libertate. Catherine previously wrote for The National Pulse and is a graduate of Christendom College with a degree in Classical Languages and Theology. She received the Andrew Breitbart MVP award for August 2021 from The Rogue Review.

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Biased online ratings firm NewsGuard is taking its information war to schoolchildren through a deal made with the American Federation of Teachers. School children depend on the internet for homework help. NewsGuard is now stepping in to “filter”…

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NBCUniversal is reportedly partnering with Chinese state-linked social media app TikTok for an advertising campaign designed to promote NBC’s coverage of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

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Twitter and Facebook allow Russian state-controlled media to maintain verified accounts even as Russia prepares to invade Ukraine. Both sites ban organizations involved in violence. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump remains banned from the…

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Google reportedly increased its U.S. lobbying spending by 27 percent in 2021, as lawmakers began a push to enact new tech legislation to regulate the industry.

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday that Big Tech censorship is the “single greatest threat” to “free speech” and “fair elections” in America. Cruz also called for legislation specifically targeting Big Tech’s biased…

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer decides what bills come up for a Senate vote. But with Schumer’s daughters employed by Facebook and Amazon, antitrust legislation may go the way of President Joe Biden’s popularity: down into oblivion.

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The new Tech Oversight Project reportedly aims to pressure lawmakers to pass competition regulation for tech companies. The project is funded by liberal billionaire Pierre Omidyar and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, however, and headed by a “…

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Twitter has reportedly permanently suspended an account linked to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei following an apparent death threat against former President Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a rare enforcement…

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The January 6 House Select Committee made a dangerous attack against free speech online. It issued subpoenas to four major Big Tech companies — in the name of stopping “extremism.”

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Twitter censored Project Veritas Chief of Staff Eric Spracklen for alleged “ban evasion” just after Spracklen posted the outlet’s bombshell report claiming evidence that Dr. Anthony Fauci spoke falsely under oath.

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President Joe Biden’s new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chief of Staff Kristie Canegallo has a politically leftist, pro-censorship history that should raise concerns for free speech advocates.

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Someday the metaverse will come … and it may be sooner than later for Disney. The corporation is reportedly exploring the potential of “headsetless augmented reality” through a “virtual-world simulator” in their Disney theme parks.

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Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) director of policy Rachel Bovard called out social media platforms on Twitter for their censorship of alleged COVID-19 “misinformation,” pointing to needed action now that the U.S. Centers for Disease…

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As Congress proposes more tech-regulating bills, the head of the Internet Accountability Project said Big Tech platforms’ “unchallenged growth is a threat to the conservative movement.”

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Hysteria proclaiming Jan. 6, 2021, as a MAGA-fueled “insurrection” against “democracy” is strong as ever one year later. Government agencies, a university and nonprofits are all coming together to develop supposed “political violence”-predicting…

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Americans may already be worried about the overall competency of the medical field post-COVID-19, but now medical professionals are reportedly increasingly using virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) to train their colleagues. Not only…

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Tech giants Google and Amazon are reportedly calling on the local governments and small businesses to speak with lawmakers on their behalf.

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Free speech supporters slammed Twitter’s bias and anti-free speech modus operandi after the social media platform permanently suspended the personal, verified account of U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). Greene was suspended for alleged “…

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Facebook has done everything since “whistleblower” Frances Haugen’s revelations except apologize. The company changed its name, denied massive problems, and reportedly even sold different narratives to politicians from different ends of the…

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mRNA vaccine inventor Robert Malone was suspended by Twitter for alleged “misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19.”