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.

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released yet more evidence exposing how far the Biden administration went to target critics of its COVID-19 mandates.

Video platform Rumble has taken yet another step toward forming a censorship-free digital economy, one where Big Tech monopolies cannot deplatform apps based on their political views.

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Memorial Day may mean different things to Americans. A solemn day to honor fallen soldiers? Naturally. The unofficial start of summer? Why not. A racist holiday steeped in controversy? Bingo—at least if you ask Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini.

A “non-profit” that became infamous for acting as a government-funded censorship proxy bragged to federal officials about suppressing President Donald Trump and right-leaning media favorable to him online,  according to newly uncovered reports…

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President Donald Trump has shut down grants to counter so-called disinformation, throwing a group of misinformation researchers into a state of panic. Their concerns? Taxpayers will no longer pay for their ridiculous research.

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Dr. Aseem Malhotra, the newly appointed chief medical advisor at the non-profit MAHA Action, highlighted HHS Secretary John F. Kennedy Jr.’s right approach to what the left labels misinformation, reminding Americans of the massive censorship…

MRC Free Speech America has proof to illustrate what a massive and ongoing problem Big Tech censorship is—a fact Twitter Files Journalist Michael Shellenberger underscored Sunday on X.

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If there’s one agency drowning in its own regulatory self-importance and formerly entangled in censorship, it’s the FCC.

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A new study from the Media Research Center found that Google appeared to have worked overtime to ensure Pope Leo XIV resembled the late Pope Francis, a figure whose views occasionally unsettled traditional and “conservative” Catholics.

Picture this: a man walks up to you and says he wants to be your friend, follow you everywhere, read your thoughts, and predict what you'll think before you even think it. Creepy, right? Well, that's exactly what Mark Zuckerberg says he wants his…

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio pulled no punches in criticizing some of the Biden-era censorship initiatives within the federal government—even saying his agency had secretly created a dossier on a current Trump administration official.

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Meta appears to be at a crossroads in the battle for free speech. In spite of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Jan. 7 about-face on free speech, Meta already appears to be foolishly returning to some of its bad old ways.

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President Donald Trump called for the defunding of NPR and PBS, just hours after House Republicans grilled NPR CEO Katherine Maher over the outlet’s bias and her involvement in Wikipedia’s suppression of information.

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An MRC Free Speech America report exposing the Biden administration’s censorship took center stage at a Senate panel, thanks to the testimony of renowned journalist Benjamin Weingarten.

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Media Research Center data indicates that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge to implement pro-free speech policies across Meta appears to have had an almost immediate impact.

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So-called independent agencies will no longer be able to exert executive powers without first consulting with Donald Trump, the duly elected president of the United States. This includes agencies that have regulatory control over Big Tech…

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The Federal Communications Commission has a new general counsel—and he is no fan of Big Tech.

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Hoping to avoid misinformation about President Donald Trump’s nominees and appointments on Wikipedia? Good luck. Wikipedia has designed a protocol that directly and unerringly produces the worst descriptions about conservatives and Republicans by…

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There is a new U.S. senator in town—and she has already proven herself to be a fierce defender of free speech against Big Tech censorship.

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MRC President Brent Bozell called for TikTok to be required to divest from Chinese control and now that has become a reality. 

MRC Vice President for Free Speech America Dan Schneider echoed this sentiment Friday in an X post. “Two huge…