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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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…

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MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell underscored the significant implications of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to relocate part of his “trust and safety” team out of California, which Zuckerberg himself described as “ground zero of the far…

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MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell issued a special announcement video to MRC’s supporters recounting how patriotic Americans have won the battle against Meta’s censorship.

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Is the Biden administration attempting to pull the wool over Americans’ eyes by closing a controversial federal entity involved in censorship, while secretly reviving it behind the scenes?

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The Democratic-led Senate has passed the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a provision that bans the Pentagon from funneling taxpayers’ dollars to media ratings firms that target news outlets that do not align with leftist…

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House Republicans, led by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), have once again blocked the Pentagon from funneling taxpayer dollars to fund entities that censor news outlets not aligned with leftist dogma.

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A top Meta executive admitted to what many have long affirmed: its social media platforms are stifling Americans’ free speech and then citing errors when called out.

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Federal Communications Commissioner and incoming Chair Brendan Carr is offering details on how he will succeed in his pledge to, once and for all, “smash” Big Tech’s censorship regime, including entities like NewsGuard.

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Facebook pulled the trigger by suspending—and later reinstating—the page of one of the nation’s largest gun manufacturers.

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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) shockingly admitted government influence on social media has an “undeniable” impact on elections during the Saturday episode of the Joe Rogan Experience. 

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YouTube, the Google-owned video streaming platform, rebuffed pressure from The New York Times and The Washington Post to silence some prominent right-leaning and free-speech voices just days before the 2024 presidential election.

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Former President Donald Trump and popular podcast host Joe Rogan called out Big Tech’s interference in the 2020 presidential election, predicting a new era where young Americans will break free from censorship and leftist “wokeness.”

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A shocking number of current and former U.S. presidential nominees have pushed for online censorship. Their comments include calling for the criminalization of speech, banning opposition speech in the name of mis-, dis- or mal-information, and…

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A leftist organization known for targeting right-leaning media outlets has set its partisan sights on a new target: Elon Musk.

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For our first annual Free Speech Awards, the Media Research Center (MRC) is honoring 35 champions of the First Amendment, including five members of the U.S. Senate yesterday, 10 members of the U.S. House of Representatives today, 10 additional…