Michael Morris
MRC Free Speech America Director

Michael B. Morris, Esq. has been MRC Free Speech America Director since November 2022. Prior to 2025, he also served as MRC Business Director. Before that, he served as MRC Free Speech America & MRC Business Managing Editor starting in January 2022. He first was MRC Free Speech America & MRC Business Associate Editor starting in October 2019.

Michael began his employment with the Media Research Center as Assistant Editor for Commentary at CNSNews.com in August 2014. In 2015, he was promoted to Commentary Editor for CNSNews.com and was responsible for soliciting and editing commentary for CNSNews.com's commentary section.

Michael is a graduate of Regent University School of Law, where he earned his Juris Doctorate. While attending Regent University School of Law, he served as Republican National Lawyer Association Regent University School of Law Chapter Vice Chair of Membership from September 2012 through April 2014 and on Regent University School of Law’s Honor Council during his 2L and 3L years. He also interned for then-Congressman J. Randy Forbes in 2012.

He is also a graduate of Indiana Wesleyan University, where he earned a double major in Political Science/Pre-Law and Economics. While earning his undergraduate degrees, Michael interned for then-Congressman, now former Vice President Mike Pence in 2010.

He was born and raised in Indiana, and he now lives in the suburbs with his wife near Washington, D.C.

Michael Morris | June 24, 2025

The warnings and prognostications from tech experts on what could be coming soon with artificial intelligence have been many, but the message from the head of a leading chatbot model painted a dizzyingly rosy picture. 

Michael Morris | June 10, 2025

Over and over again, the prominent artificial intelligence concern discussed, from industry leaders to Trump administration officials and across the liberal media landscape, is how the burgeoning technology will impact jobs. And while the winds…

The Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek, popular since its debut, erases data pertaining to sensitive topics disapproved by the Chinese government, including Tiananmen Square, Taiwan, Jimmy Lai, and Uyghur rights. Despite initially processing encoded…

Michael Morris | May 29, 2025

“The Kids Online Safety Act is back” read multiple headlines as a “bipartisan pair of senators reintroduced” the bill May 14 with a subtle change in hopes that the legislation — which thankfully flatlined in the U.S. House after it passed 91-3 in…

President Donald Trump’s administration has taken action on two Biden-era initiatives revealed by MRC Free Speech America to have been targeting Americans’ constitutionally protected speech.

President Joe Biden and his administration spent four years continuously attacking the First Amendment and the free speech rights enshrined by the nation’s Founders. 

The Biden administration’s censorship efforts ran the gamut from…