Luis Cornelio
Associate Editor for Free Speech America

Luis is an associate editor for MRC Free Speech America, where he has broken some of the most consequential stories on media bias, censorship, digital news apps such as Apple News and Google News, and media rating firms. 

 

His reporting has prompted federal and state investigations and been featured in multiple congressional hearings, all while receiving coverage by several prominent media outlets, including Fox News, The New York Times, the New York Post, Semafor and The Daily Caller, among others. He has also authored columns for The Daily Caller and The Daily Wire. As a contributor to Headline USA, Luis has interviewed prominent figures, including former FBI officials, Biden administration officials and state officials from both sides of the political aisle. His reporting has also produced exclusive coverage of political developments, including the release of previously unreleased documents.

 

Beyond his written work, Luis is a frequent guest on Newsmax, One America News Network (OANN), Real America's Voice (RSBN) and several radio programs. Professionally fluent in both written and spoken Spanish, he regularly represents MRC in Spanish-language media.

 

Luis graduated cum laude from CUNY's City College of New York, where he majored in political science and minored in legal studies. He went on to work on President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign. Following the election, he became English editor-in-chief of the bilingual news outlet El American (now Voz Media) and served as an aide at the Thomas More Society. He is also an alumnus of The Heritage Foundation's internship program.

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EXCLUSIVE: Last month, the Media Research Center exposed Microsoft’s MSN for manufacturing the illusion of balance on its feed while concealing its censorship by promoting non-political, right-leaning stories in top placements.

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EXCLUSIVE: The growing hospice fraud scandal in California could soon derail the presidential ambitions of Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Vice President Kamala Harris, or at least it looks like that’s what Apple, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo fear.…

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EXCLUSIVE: The Big Four News Apps are controlling the political narrative to help Democrats, and it's working. Americans know that the U.S. is engaged in an armed conflict with Iran. Most are aware that there have been several suspected terrorist…

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EXCLUSIVE: Democrats want Americans to believe President Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran were not based on an immediate threat the Islamic regime posed to the Western Hemisphere. Tellingly, the Big Four News Apps appeared eager to amplify that…

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The broadcast networks (ABC,CBS,NBC) and the Big Four news apps are mostly ignoring President Donald Trump’s popular voter ID proposal. 

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EXCLUSIVE: As Apple News faces relentless criticism for systematically erasing right-leaning sources from its app, Microsoft’s MSN has quietly pulled a similar stunt. But unlike Apple’s brazen elimination of right-leaning outlets, MSN camouflages…

Trump AI and crypto czar David Sacks has intensified scrutiny of ties between the former Biden officials and Anthropic after resurfaced comments from venture capitalist Marc Andreessen reignited debate over how the previous administration…

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EXCLUSIVE: Did you know that a historic and symbolic landmark of the nation’s capital was recently vandalized by an individual currently sought after by the FBI? If the story escaped your attention, thank the Big Four News Apps — Apple News,…

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Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson put Apple on notice Wednesday following the release of several Media Research Center studies exposing the tech giant’s prolonged blackout of right-leaning sources on Apple News.

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EXCLUSIVE: Former CNN anchor-turned-YouTuber Don Lemon was shielded at nearly every level following his federal indictment tied to the Cities Church riot. Elitist media outlets downplayed the charges, and like clockwork, Apple News, Google News,…

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EXCLUSIVE: Google News kicked off 2026 by largely shutting out right-leaning sources throughout January, continuing the censorship campaign that defined the digital gatekeeper in December.

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EXCLUSIVE: A new Media Research Center study revealed that the Big Four News Apps relentlessly smeared President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement in what amounted to a coordinated campaign of hostile, one‑sided coverage that…

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella ignored the impact of AI on free speech at an international conference, even though his company’s AI acknowledged the risks to the Media Research Center and studies have shown the same.

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EXCLUSIVE: December is often marked by celebration. However, for right-leaning media, the month was defined by censorship at the hands of Google News.

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EXCLUSIVE: For six weeks, Google News quietly worked to throttle coverage of widespread fraud allegations in Gov. Tim Walz's Minnesota, an exclusive Media Research Center analysis found.

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EXCLUSIVE: The “Big Four News Apps”  (Apple News, Google News, MSN and Yahoo News) quickly aligned to blame the Trump administration for the Minneapolis ICE shooting that resulted in the death of an anti-Trump activist who was blocking a road.

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In 2025, searches related to Charlie Kirk's death led Google trends. Critics argue Google exploited this by prioritizing Wikipedia, which contained biased smears against Kirk, consistent with Google's alliance with Wikipedia since 2022. 

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EXCLUSIVE: Anyone who thinks the Big Tech censorship days of the Hunter Biden era are over is dead wrong. Just ask Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, whose major fraud-related mismanagement scandal is nowhere to be found on Google News.

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EXCLUSIVE: Remember Thomas Crooks? The man who shot President Donald Trump in a failed 2024 assassination attempt? Big Tech wants you to forget about him.

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EXCLUSIVE: Wikipedia and its little-known ally, Wiki Education, have quietly enlisted and trained more than 140,000 college students to build an army of activists who have already edited thousands of pages on the site, reshaping its content to…