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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A powerful group of leftist entities, including academics, doctors and a lawmaker, are rallying behind the Biden administration’s un-American censorship operations as it battles a pending Supreme Court case.

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President Joe Biden signed on Friday the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, which included a pro-free speech provision effectively prohibiting the Department of Defense from contracting with radical leftist entities that discriminate…

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A co-founder of Substack rejected efforts that seek to punish egregious content that is otherwise protected by the First Amendment, delivering a rebuke against widespread censorship plots to thwart free speech.

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The Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway had a few words to say for the leftist Internet traffic cops over at NewsGuard and the dystopian Global Disinformation Index: Their work is “un-American.”

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From mass digital ID verification to the purge of right-leaning media, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has the answer on how the left can best defeat its critics ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

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The federal collusion with infamous Internet traffic cops — NewsGuard and Global Disinformation Index — is likely on the chopping block.

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Get your tuxedo ready! One of the fastest-growing artificial intelligence companies has officially tied the knot with notoriously leftist legacy media to prop up its content in chatbot responses.

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MRC President and Founder Brent Bozell delivered a scorching rebuke of self-anointed internet traffic cop NewsGuard following the release of another report exposing the media ratings firm’s extreme leftist bias.

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The New York Post journalists who uncovered the  Biden bribery scandal that broke the internet amid the 2020 presidential election spoke candidly with MRC Vice President Dan Schneider about Big Tech censorship on the latest episode of MRC…

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Disgraced media ratings firm Ad Fontes shut the curtains and hid damning data from paying subscribers following MRC Free Speech America’s scathing exposé on the self-dubbed arbiter of truth and facts. So much for the company’s claims of being…

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MRC President and Founder Brent Bozell raised the alarm about an MRC bombshell exposing “empirical” evidence that Big Tech companies are cheerleading President Joe Biden’s sinking re-election campaign ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

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MRC President and Founder Brent Bozell slammed Big Tech censorship in a Tuesday interview, detailing the harrowing election interference of social media platforms to aid the scandal-ridden Biden administration.

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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s newly released plan to fight so-called misinformation, disinformation and malinformation (“MDM”) came under quick condemnation from various quarters on social media over concerns that the plan marked the creation of a…

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Members of the Free Speech Alliance and pro-free speech allies are calling on Congress to once and for all ensure that the Biden administration is prohibited from unconstitutionally funding Ministry of Truth operations like leftist internet…

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Anti-free speech YouTube targeted a video from Sen. Ted Cruz’s popular podcast where the lawmaker praised a report from MRC’s NewsBusters about fake videos depicting alleged victims in the Gaza Strip.

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The Department of Defense may soon have its dystopian efforts come to a screeching halt after a lawmaker offered an amendment to the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) barring government censorship collusion.

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) unleashed a scathing rebuke against the communist Chinese government-tied TikTok app in a new interview with The Epoch Times.

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Former President Barack Obama hilariously portrayed himself as practically a free speech “absolutist” while also shilling for Big Tech platforms to censor content on The Verge's Decoder podcast last week.

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A bipartisan duo of lawmakers held a press conference calling on the Department of Justice to formally slap Al Jazeera-owned AJ+ and communist Chinese government-tied TikTok as foreign agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

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Bomb shelters across Israel and near the Gaza Strip are fully displayed on Google Maps, while no such shelters are shown in Ukraine, an MRC Free Speech America search found.