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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President Donald Trump is punishing the censorship-obsessed officials in Brazil with a massive new tariff.

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Social media personality Douglass Mackey has succeeded in overturning his conviction for posting a controversial meme ahead of a major election.

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Canada’s Liberal politicians are trying to revive a defeated censorship bill that critics argue threatens free speech.

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Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and this summer, MRC is shining a light on Big Tech censorship.

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X CEO Linda Yaccarino is bragging about adding artificial intelligence to the platform’s already anti-free speech systems.

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President Donald Trump has indicated that negotiators may have found potential buyers for TikTok, the Communist Chinese government-tied social media platform.

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Brazil is once again enforcing censorship in a ruling threatening companies with liability for alleged “hate speech.”

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Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini is biased and anti-free speech, but now the Big Tech company has added another target audience to push the AI on.

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There’s trouble at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta as the company’s employees lost their marbles over free speech reforms.

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The Republican National Lawyers’ Association slammed the Democrat-run state of Washington for its pressure campaign designed to push companies to cush free speech.

 

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asked the American people to submit comments on the threats of online censorship, and a Facebook whistleblower responded with strong condemnations of attacks on free speech.

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Tech giant Google reportedly uses YouTube videos to train its artificial intelligence models, which raises several concerns related to the bias and censorship across Google’s platforms.

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Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) released on June 11 its 2025 Viewpoint Diversity Scores Business Index, and Big Tech companies are low on the free speech totem pole.

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Leftist anti-free speech haven Bluesky, which claims to prioritize a “pleasant experience” for users, banned the vice president of the United States almost immediately after he created his account.

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Elon Musk’s X is rightly challenging a new censorship law in New York, but the platform made a shocking admission in the process.

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Even as major Big Tech platforms remain under federal scrutiny for enforcing biased censorship, social media provides more Americans’ news than ever.

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The European Union continues to double down on crushing free speech, and the U.S. State Department is having none of it.

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After Elon Musk bought X and implemented free speech changes, many leftists moved to an alternative platform. However, a lack of diversity of opinion on the new platform is causing a stir.

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Social media companies aggressively censored doctors critical of the COVID-19 vaccines and lockdowns. Now, the joke is on Big Tech as two of those doctors will help advise the Trump administration on vaccine policies.

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A new European Union strategy not only threatens free speech, but it could bring about an even worse crackdown.