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.

After businessman and futurist Elon Musk purchased Twitter, renamed it X and declared it a haven for “free speech,” the NLRB tried to censor his actions directly (see Initiative #53). Other Biden administration agencies tried a different tact:…

As this report has detailed, the Biden censorship initiatives were vast, varied and spanned dozens upon dozens of government bureaus and agencies. The Murthy v. Missouri litigation alone provided 162 pages of formal documentation of censorship…

In the lame duck period before Biden left office, his administration acted in contravention of Congress to hide career bureaucrats doing censorship work in various sub-cabinet agencies. This means that while Biden is gone, his censorship…

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’…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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MRC Founder Brent Bozell endorses Brendan Carr as the next FCC Chairman, urging President Trump to appoint him. Bozell praises Carr's commitment to free speech and his opposition to FCC actions under the Biden administration that he claims were…

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Looking for the number of George Soros-funded prosecutors? The Media Research Center has the receipts, but if you look to artificial intelligence to find the answer, don’t think it will direct you to a media outlet that will give you the results…

Google is still at it. On Tuesday, just two days before the widely anticipated presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the tech giant buried Trump’s campaign website in its search results. But Biden’s…

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Bipartisan members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee met today on a new bill concerning Big Tech’s liability shield, but will the latest bill actually accomplish anything?

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Google’s election interference is just getting warmed up as we head into 2024. 

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The House Appropriations Committee took an important step to restoring free speech in America, but today’s efforts are just the beginning.

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Anti-free speech Google announced Thursday its decision to consolidate its AI research divisions to keep up with other Big Tech giants, despite its CEO’s insistence that AI advancement should slow down.

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Amidst U.S. banking instability, there’s concern that financial institutions are prioritizing diversity initiatives over core responsibilities, risking future financial crises. Critics, including Bernard Marcus and Kevin O’Leary, warn of "moral…

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Though the Biden administration suggested it would not implement a federal COVID-19 verification system, Big Tech has taken the reins and plans to step in as Big Brother. Google and Apple have announced updates that will allow users to display…

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Big Tech tyranny knows no bounds. Big Tech companies have gone so far as to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for their employees, but now apparently even that isn’t enough. Some of those employees are being required to show proof.

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In a jaw-dropping admission, The Washington Post warned of the potential privacy problems a new technology buried in Amazon smart devices poses to consumers. The Post, owned by liberal billionaire founder and CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos, warned…