Luis Cornelio
Associate Editor for Free Speech America

Luis is the associate editor for MRC Free Speech America. He graduated cum laude with a major in political science from CUNY's City College of New York. Afterward, he worked on President Donald Trump's 2020 re-election campaign. Following the 2020 election, Luis became the editor-in-chief of the start-up news site El American, which is now known as Voz Media, and he also served as an aide at the Thomas More Society. He is also a graduate of The Heritage Foundation's internship program.

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…

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The Media Research Center is proud to recognize President Donald Trump and several members of his administration during the 21st annual Free Speech Week for their unwavering commitment to defending the First Amendment and confronting one of the…

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The Media Research Center announced Wednesday that it is awarding its annual Free Speech Award exclusively to Charlie Kirk, the late founder of Turning Point USA and a fearless defender of the First Amendment. This approach differs from that…

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First on MRC: Fed up with the legacy media dominating your timeline on X? Blame the algorithm, which continues to boost radical leftist media far more than their counterparts on the right. But buckle up; the incoming AI-led alternative could be…

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The legacy media are now portraying multi-millionaire Jimmy Kimmel as a victim of censorship after ABC indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! for falsely linking Charlie Kirk’s suspected murderer to MAGA. The irony? Kimmel has repeatedly…

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When President Donald Trump announced Charlie Kirk’s death, he vowed to find those responsible for political violence, as well as the “organizations that fund it and support it.” He need look no further than his predecessor and those in the Biden…

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First on MRC: Just minutes after Charlie Kirk was fatally shot on stage in Utah, Apple News highlighted an article from The Guardian that smeared him as a “right-wing activist” and called him a “Trump ally.” The piece shamelessly asked readers…