Heather Moon
MRC Free Speech America Senior Researcher

Heather Moon is a Senior Researcher for the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America division. She previously wrote for The Resurgent. She has a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Liberty University, as well as a Master’s of Library Science from Texas Woman’s University.

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Surprising no one, recently published research has confirmed that ChatGPT has a clear leftist bias. The findings support the many recent reports of leftist results obtained from the popular AI model owned by OpenAI.

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Big Tech worked tirelessly to silence pro-life voices, but the censorship can’t stop the Supreme Court from overturning bad precedent. A grievous Supreme Court document leak indicated that the court may overturn Roe v. Wade. Big Tech and the…

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The leftist U.K.-based Center for Countering Digital Hate just launched a broadside attack against nine conservative digital outlets with its “Toxic Ten” report. The report aimed to silence entire outlets for writing stories that don’t follow the…

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Facebook admitted that data it shared with researchers in Feb. 2020 was severely flawed. The result discredited any study relating to so-called “misinformation,” alleged radicalization or political polarization that used the Facebook information…

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A new Facebook report proved the @FacebooksTop10 daily list of 10 most-engaged link posts each day is wildly misleading, given that posts with the most views got far more engagement than posts on the list.

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Philanthropy Roundtable board member Vivek Ramaswamy blasted Big Tech for its unconstitutional censorship in a Fox News appearance. He argued that the government was using private companies as a backdoor to do what it could not do legally in an…

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A new study used biased “fact-checkers” to determine what was “true” and claimed conservatives couldn’t tell the difference between factual and misleading news as well as liberals. 

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The Facebook Oversight Board upheld Facebook’s decision to suspend former President Donald Trump’s Facebook account. The Board also chastised Facebook for assessing a “vague, standardless penalty.” The ruling confirmed the Media Research Center’s…

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A new study on fake news relied on questionable data and biased sources to blame the problem on the right. It also contained critical errors, leaving the accuracy of the results in question.

 

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By almost any measure, the first three months of 2021 were the worst ever for online freedom. Amazon, Twitter, Apple, Google, Facebook, YouTube and others proved to the world that the Big Tech censorship of conservatives is a reality. And they…

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Twitter’s abuse of the sensitive content filter is another form of censorship and the company uses it a huge amount. Twitter deployed it to reduce the reach and engagement of at least 350 conservative accounts in the past year.

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A new study from a George Soros-funded group used flawed methodology to claim Facebook failed to prevent more than 10 billion views of so-called “misinformation.” 

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A new study from a leftist group claims that Instagram uses its recommendations to promote “dangerous misinformation and conspiracy theories.” But the study was vague about what that even means.

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Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said that Twitter suspended his account for speaking out against the folly of deliberately allowing illegal immigrants to cross the border freely in the time of COVID-19

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A new Anti-Defamation League study labels conservative commentators and members of the “Intellectual Dark Web” as “gateways” to extremist content. 

 

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In a sign of the times, Twitter censored Catholic World Report over its accurate description of a biological male identifying as a transgender woman.

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Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg is “glad” that the platform decided to ban President Donald Trump’s account indefinitely. Sandberg, who has donated abundantly to Planned Parenthood and a myriad of liberal members of Congress,…

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Online platforms got to use their favorite tool in 2020 before and even after the election: censorship.

 

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Twitter’s censorship push against President Donald Trump and his campaign continued this week. The site labeled videos from One America News Network. It also labeled part of an address by Trump, and a tweet by Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) featuring…

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Twitter’s censorship crusade against President Donald Trump and his campaign pressed on this week. The site labeled videos from Fox News and One America News Network. It also labeled Peter Navarro’s report on election irregularities, and the…