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.

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Wikipedia promotes a left-wing agenda by attacking figures like Vice President JD Vance and consistently framing Republicans negatively. Wikipedia increased edits on Vance's page, painting him as radical. The platform also notoriously blacklists…

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The Biden administration appears to have been leveraging AI for a leftist agenda, as evidenced by comments from then-V.P. Kamala Harris suggesting AI can forecast opinions based on input data. Highlighted studies show AI bias in chatbot…

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.

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President Trump's second term highlights ongoing battles over free speech, particularly in the digital realm. Texas proposes an anti-meme bill that threatens free speech, while Maryland's "No Moore" account faces political backlash. Pro-free…

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A study by MRC Free Speech America highlights Wikipedia's bias, particularly in its portrayals of Trump administration nominees. The analysis shows how Wikipedia unfairly edited pages of political figures like now-Secretary of Defense Pete…

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MRC Free Speech America report highlights the alarming level of government censorship during the Biden administration, with 57 initiatives targeting free speech. These initiatives involved collaboration with Big Tech, funding of censorship groups…

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…

Secretary of State Tony Blinken spearheaded the GEC’s creation of the deceptively-named “The Framework to Counter Foreign State Information Manipulation.” The Framework, a formal compact between powerful sovereign nations, called for the funding…

Under President Joe Biden, the National Security Council (NSC) conducted extensive collaboration with the United Kingdom (U.K.)’s Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU), a foreign government censorship agency.

The Biden administration acted swiftly to destroy the “Fair Access Rule,” one of the key free speech protections instituted by his predecessor (and successor). 

One of several censorship initiatives conducted out of the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Agency was the process known as “switchboarding.” Both before and after the 2020 election — including well into the Biden administration — CISA would…

Despite its innocuous name, “Track F” of the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Convergence Accelerator was one of the Biden administration’s most ambitious efforts to build artificial intelligence (AI) weapons of mass deletion.

Under Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attempted to create a ministry of truth, to be named the “Disinformation Governance Board.” The Board would have coordinated censorship activities…

The Biden administration’s highly touted “Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence” was written to favor censorship-obsessed Google and its vendetta against open source artificial…

Predating and separate from its ham-fisted efforts to impose artificial intelligence (AI) censorship through official policymaking (see Initiative #7), the Biden administration labored to impose speech codes through partnerships with Big Tech…

As well as running afoul of the First Amendment, the Biden administration’s extensive partnership with AI developers to collude in creating a censorship-minded AI model (see Initiative #8) raised serious antitrust concerns. It is unsurprising,…

The Department of Defense’s intelligence agencies created a censorship algorithm to suppress speech contrary to their agenda. The “Influence Campaign and Sensemaking Awareness” project began as part of a $59.5 million program on informational…

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…