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.

Unfortunately, the Biden administration was at least partly successful in its effort to get courts to rewrite the First Amendment (see Initiative #40). In Murthy v. Missouri, the U.S. Supreme Court aggressively limited censorship victims’…

Michael Morris | February 24, 2025

President Trump’s administration is prioritizing the protection of free speech both domestically and internationally. Vice President J.D. Vance criticized European censorship and AI bias at the Paris AI Summit, emphasizing America's intolerance…

Michael Morris | February 7, 2025

Amid President Trump's actions on free speech and AI transparency, an exposé by MRC Free Speech America criticizes Wikipedia for left-leaning bias, demonstrating how it effectively blacklists right-leaning media sources. The piece suggests tech…

Michael Morris | January 20, 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled against TikTok in a landmark case, supporting legislation to protect Americans from data privacy concerns tied to the app's communist Chinese government ties. The decision, championed for maintaining free…

Michael Morris | January 10, 2025

Mark Zuckerberg announced significant changes at Meta, ending the use of third-party fact-checking groups like PolitiFact and replacing them with Community Notes, a crowdsourced fact-checking tool. The company will also shift its trust and safety…

Tom Olohan, Michael Morris | November 13, 2024

Sen. John Thune (R-SD) ultimately was elected to lead Republicans as they took a majority in the Senate following the 2024 election red wave. But what transpired before today’s leadership vote surrounding free speech and censorship contextualizes…