Tom Olohan
MRC Free Speech America Staff Writer

Tom Olohan joined the Media Research Center as a Staff Writer for MRC Free Speech America in April 2023. Previously Tom worked for America Rising as a Field Researcher and Media Monitoring Associate and interned with Heritage Action and AIPAC.  He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2016 before graduating from Boston College in 2018 with an M.A. in Political Philosophy. 

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Anthropic and Google joined a communist Chinese government-tied AI model in downplaying the radicalism of a recently updated Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) platform that shreds traditional checks and balances on power and massively…

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Communist Chinese government-tied AI model GLM-5.2, an open-source model that at least one report suggests could be as good as the much-heralded, closed-source model Mythos, has proven itself to be little more than a CCP censor. 

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Google had an embarrassing snafu when its AI Gemini accidentally showed its bias for the wildly anti-Trump U.K.-based outlet The Guardian. Gemini praised the outlet as reliable while blasting right-of-center media, then quickly erased its answer…

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Vice President J.D. Vance announced the Trump administration had identified massive amounts of federal funds lost to fraud, contributing to a historic record for the administration. Big Tech largely chose not to cover the news.

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White House AI advisor David Sacks responded to Pope Leo XIV's papal encyclical on AI, Magnifica Humanitas, warning against the major pitfalls of putting the government in charge of artificial intelligence.

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DeepSeek, a Chinese communist government-tied AI chatbot, went to the mat to defend the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism, the day before President Donald Trump's trip to China. 

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Editors across Wikipedia are going all out to salvage the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) reputation. 

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Google propped up links to the disgraced Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and its smears against Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy, even after its scathing indictment on Tuesday, the Media Research Center found.

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Two American AI chatbots just demonstrated that they are neither aligned with the truth nor with American foreign policy, this time carrying water for Hezbollah. 

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EXCLUSIVE: Nearly three years ago, then–Vice President Kamala Harris openly revealed the left’s goal of controlling what information feeds AI to shape its outputs. Now, Google appears to have taken that playbook to heart, as its chatbot Gemini…

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America First Legal is calling out collusion between two leftist Big Tech titans that have used their companies to distort information and push a radical agenda. 

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David Sacks, the new co-chair of the White House’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology,  blasted Anthropic’s “regulatory capture strategy,” warning that the AI giant wants to significantly hamstring the industry.

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The White House released its widely anticipated national framework for artificial intelligence on Friday, drawing the praise of House leadership, which has now pledged to enact the framework into legislation.

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Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei made the incredible admission that he does not know if his Claude chatbot is conscious. Claude, alone among major chatbots, agrees.

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President Donald Trump and his Department of Defense criticized AI giant Anthropic for attempting to maintain veto power over military decisions. However, several other AI chatbots display equally partisan bias against the military.

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In an optics disaster, many Democratic members of Congress refused to stand as President Donald Trump spoke in support of victims of egregious crimes and abuse during his State of the Union Address. Democrats also refused the president’s…

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Are Google's and Meta’s powerful AI chatbots programmed to attack President Donald Trump, even when asked vague questions that don’t even mention a name? Their latest answers suggest exactly that.

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As the communist Chinese government cracked down on dissent and threatened Taiwan, the AI chatbot DeepSeek once again revealed its subservience to Chinese Communist Party interests.

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The Big Four News Apps just revealed a new low of depravity, ignoring a significant win that could encourage victims across the nation to seek justice. Despite a young woman winning a multi-million dollar judgment against her psychologist and her…

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House Judiciary Committee witnesses warned Americans on Wednesday of the European Union’s attempt to export its authoritarian suppression of speech abroad.