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.

A Media Research Center report detailed the Biden administration’s extensive ties to the censorship outfit NewsGuard, which works with Big Tech firms to cut off access and ad revenue to right-of-center media outlets. Though NewsGuard presented…

The Biden administration encouraged violation of a congressional statute limiting its financing of censorship outfits. After years of funnelling money to so-called arbiters of truth like NewsGuard, Friends of Europe and The Poynter Institute,…

Throughout the Biden administration, the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) had an ongoing partnership with the leftist censorship outfit The Poynter Institute. The Poynter Institute runs the International Fact-Checking Network, which…

The partnership with The Poynter Institute was not the extent of the Biden administration’s financial entanglement with censorship outfitters masquerading as “fact checkers.” Through the State Department and the National Science Foundation (NSF…

In addition to lavishing funds on censorship outfits, the Biden administration also labored to put their weapons of mass deletion into American classrooms. 

The Biden administration funded domestic censorship by equating Christians, conservatives and the entire Republican Party with militant neo-Nazis.