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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Newly released information unveiled the leading role the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) played in launching an infamous “disinformation” group at Stanford University, which in turn led an anti-free speech assault on social media.

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FIRST ON MRC: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) joined MRC Founder and President L. Brent Bozell to speak about how Google is interfering in elections by manipulating its search results to highlight Democratic candidates ahead of the 2024…

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Media ratings firm Ad Fontes turned a blind eye to the leftist media outlets that infamously ran the Hamas-driven Gaza hospital hoax, thus shielding their favorable ratings.

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Vice President Kamala Harris, unsatisfied with the already-prevalent Big Tech censorship, called for suppression of artificial intelligence—because, according to her, people can’t tell fact from fiction.

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Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly Twitter) slammed the “death cult” in charge of social media platforms on Joe Rogan’s podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience.

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MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider joined other free speech advocates in signing an open letter to X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk, calling on him to stand against government censorship.

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Bard, Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot, appeared to refuse to provide information about a Palestinian-based terror group—all in a bid to tarnish Israel, MRC Vice President Dan Schneider warned.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) attempted — and failed miserably — to hop on the line of the anti-free speech buffet, despite a court injunction barring second helpings.

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Nineteen Republican attorneys general issued a damning letter to Eventbrite, the infamous event planning platform, which attempted to thwart an event highlighting the dangers of sex transitions for children.

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A Democratic senator exploited the Hamas-Israel war to demand that the Censorship Industrial Complex up its efforts against online speech.

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Despite the Biden administration’s censorship actions and demands, President Joe Biden’s campaign has joined his leading opponent’s social media platform. Yes, you read that right.

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YouTube delayed removing a video featuring Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh's call to action against Israel, only acting after pressure from MRC Free Speech America. The platform's inaction contrasted with its prior quick censorship of conservative…

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Elon Musk’s X (formerly known as Twitter) took forceful actions against Hamas-tied accounts ahead of the disturbing “Day of Jihad.”

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YouTube sat idle as Al Jazeera allowed to air Hamas brutes actively recruiting Muslims across the Middle East to attack Israel.

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MRC Vice President Dan Schneider raised the alarm about Google’s ongoing election interference ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) did not mince his words against the leftist Silicon Valley giants and the onslaught of free speech in response to the Supreme Court agreeing to hear a case involving a 2021 Florida anti-censorship law.

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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey took a victory lap after an appellate court rebuked a Biden-led agency’s apparent role in violating the First Amendment. Bailey eviscerated the deep state censors on Fox News’s Ingraham Angle on Wednesday…

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A federal appeals court has now barred the infamous Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) from coordinating with Big Tech platforms to censor online speech.

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President Joe Biden whined that X (formerly known as Twitter) is not as aggressively engaging in widespread censorship of constitutionally protected free speech.

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Former President Donald Trump had strong words against Big Tech censorship ahead of the Republican primaries.