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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O say, can you see… that the American flag is now “controversial” because it’s tied to conservatives? That’s the latest take from Gemini, Google’s notoriously anti-American AI chatbot.

 

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Google may be NPR and PBS’s partners in crime, but even the tech giant’s AI chatbot Gemini can’t run cover for the leftist outlets’ taxpayer-funded shell game.

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Karine Jean-Pierre may have left the Democratic Party, but that doesn’t mean she’s done parroting the left’s talking points—especially regarding free speech.

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President Donald Trump may grant another extension to TikTok despite the Biden-era law banning the platform unless its Chinese owner, ByteDance, sells its shares to an American company.

Even as Meta seeks congratulations on free speech reforms amid federal scrutiny, the company tacitly admitted on Thursday that censorship is not over on its platforms.

 

The State Department is on the warpath against online censorship, and Republican lawmakers are rallying to the cause.

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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.