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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Facebook’s latest faulty “fact check” shows how little regard the company has for facts or experts. Facebook added a USA Today “fact check” to a post of a Just Facts study that investigated non-citizens voting in battleground states. The USA…

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Dan Bongino, conservative commentator and a partner in Twitter alternative Parler, was censored by Twitter. Bongino tweeted a video clip from a press conference presented by the legal team for President Donald Trump’s campaign. In the clip, Rudy…

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Since the conservative exodus from Twitter and Facebook has begun, the liberal media has wrung its hands over Parler, an alternative to Big Tech platforms.

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Big Tech’s major changes seem to have been made with a Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden presidency in mind. Four major firms have made a grand total of 26 policy changes since the start of 2020, aimed explicitly at election-related content. “I…

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Twitter’s attempts to “protect the civic conversation” have gone too far. Leading into the election this year, Twitter has taken multiple steps to “root out voting misinformation designed to suppress participation in the November elections,” as…

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If President Donald Trump says he will enforce law and order, that’s abusive behavior. But if Twitter users call to burn down the city of Louisville, that’s fine. Twitter saw no rule violation in the calls to burn down the city of Louisville, KY…

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Bill Mitchell, host of a popular online radio show “YourVoice America,” equated Twitter with “the Devil” and said his ban from the site was a “pure political hit job.”

 

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Former Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is a popular target on social media. But Big Tech companies have responded by deleting mocking posts and suspending critics. In the months leading up to the…

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Recent questionable search results show Google appearing to conflate the opposing terms socialism and capitalism.

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The outcome of Facebook’s outlandish new policy promoting mail-in voting was easy to predict. The company announced a plan Friday that encourages mail-in voting so much that even if a post criticizes the concept, Facebook links it to mail-in…

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We have to think of the children … and then ban their books, apparently. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and daughter Mary Morgan Ketchel’s new children’s book has been hindered yet again by Instagram, which banned ads for the book. 

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YouTube finds that a video showing crimes committed by African-Americans against white people goes against its community standards.

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Instagram, a Facebook company, censored and then reinstated a nonprofit Christian account after it posted an anti-porn video.

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Twitter is at it again. The social media site censored President Donald Trump’s response to raging protests just outside the White House. Trump warned the attempt to turn historic St. John’s Episcopal Church into a “Black House Autonomous Zone”…

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YouTube censored a formerly transgender person who revealed the hazards of sex change operations and how they should not be pushed on children. YouTube removed a video from The Heritage Foundation’s YouTube channel, citing its “hate speech policy…

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GoFundMe slammed the door on a fund-raising campaign launched by conservative activist Candace Owens. Fundraising platform GoFundMe censored Owens, a founder of the Blexit movement that encourages blacks to exit the Democratic Party, after she…

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Twitter has censored a tweet by Michelle Malkin, a conservative voice, while taking no action against similar tweets from other users.

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The Babylon Bee has come under fire for its satirical posts on Facebook before, and it appears it’s happening again.
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President Donald Trump retweeted a video on Saturday that was quickly deleted.  The video was a short clip from a speech that conservative Michelle Malkin gave decrying social media censorship of conservative voices.
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Facebook has shut down two of the Michigan shutdown protest groups. “Michiganders Against Excessive Quarantine” and “Michigan United for Liberty” were Facebook groups created as a result of the Michigan lockdowns. According to The Center Square,…