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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Lawmakers from both parties want President Joe Biden to get involved in new tech legislation leading up to the 2022 election. This is a dangerous move for free speech, as Biden’s administration has explicitly supported increased censorship online…

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Now anti-baby-murder ads are “misinformation,” according to the radical left. Pro-abortion groups claimed that tech giants aren’t favoring their baby killing propaganda ads highly enough. The groups are also outraged that any pro-life ads are…

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A former police officer won his U.K. Court of Appeal challenge to “hate incidents” guidance from the College of Policing in a big victory for free speech.

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The majority of Americans don’t trust many Big Tech companies with their data, especially on social media, according to a new survey.

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Shipping giant Amazon has reportedly banned ratings and reviews for a book by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the demand of the Chinese government. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government apparently became sensitive to negative reviews and…

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When Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen came on as a guest of leftist, pro-censorship New York Times podcast host Kara Swisher’s show, Haugen had one core question related to Facebook’s “misinformation” efforts: “Will they go far enough?”

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A group of congressmen have sent a letter to new pro-censorship Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, urging the new CEO to address Twitter’s history of biased censorship and make the platform more pro-free speech.

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Changes to file sharing in Google Drive could open a whole new censorship channel, essentially establishing that users do not have rights to their own files if Google disapproves of content.

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Big Tech giant Google has reportedly threatened to fire any employees who do not comply with the company’s anti-freedom COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

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YouTube is not only censoring conservatives, but recently, it has reportedly become a platform for something perhaps just as sinister: Western influencers who paint positive pictures of Communist China, even repeating Chinese propaganda along the…

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Veteran Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth told Axios, “If your democracy can’t tolerate the speech of people, I’m not sure what kind of democracy it is … [Facebook is] a fundamentally democratic technology.” This is paradoxical considering how…

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Meta is doubling down on its use of artificial intelligence (AI) to detect alleged “harmful content,” even though AI algorithms have been shown to be biased or error-prone in censoring content.

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Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) repeatedly praised U.K. regulation of social media platforms and called for the U.S. to adopt the U.K. model at a Dec. 8 Senate hearing on Instagram. Both the U.K. government and Blumenthal tend to support increased…

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Snap CTO Bobby Murphy is the latest tech executive who announced he is all in on augmented reality (AR), which is a key piece in how some envision the metaverse. Murphy said Snap is developing its own AR Spectacles and hoping to have applications…

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Apparently history is too dangerous to teach children. YouTube has censored a Young America’s Foundation (YAF) video about “Victims of Socialism,” restricting the video on the grounds that it is not “suitable” for kids.

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“As it turns out, remembering the politically inconvenient is a risky thing. To help others to remember is even more dangerous.” Leftist WIRED published these words as part of a report on Chinese online censorship. The irony is that WIRED…

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You might say Twitter had a heart attack after the American Heart Association (AHA) published a study abstract about the dangers of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. Twitter reportedly attached an “unsafe” label to an American Heart Association link.

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A government-controlled news outlet threatens another country with becoming “cannon fodder.” A ruler hurls insults at another nation and demands that allies sever all ties with that nation. A government official accuses another country of…

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The Heritage Foundation technology policy research fellow Kara Frederick in congressional hearing testimony cited Media Research Center ground-breaking analysis on the political impacts of Big Tech’s censorship, including how Big Tech stole the…

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The Walt Disney Co. is seeing red. Streaming platform Disney+ in Hong Kong reportedly removed an episode of The Simpsons that mocked Chinese propaganda about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.