Tim Kilcullen
MRC Senior Counsel for Investigations

Tim Kilcullen is MRC Senior Counsel for Investigations. A former field director for the Massachusetts GOP, Tim graduated from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. Tim also earned a degree in Economics & English from the University of Illinois, worked as a research assistant at State & Federal Communication, and was the 2021 Republican nominee for Virginia’s 49th Assembly District. Tim joined the MRC in 2023, and is focused on fighting against censorship and for our First Amendment liberties. 

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…

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.