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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EXCLUSIVE: Two of the most powerful AI chatbots went out of their way to preserve the left’s good Samaritan propaganda following the shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti, whom President Donald Trump labeled a violent anti-ICE “agitator.” 

Catherine Salgado, Tom Olohan |

Anthropic may have released a new so-called “constitution,” but according to answers provided by Claude itself to the Media Research Center, this could be a risk to free speech.

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The Big Four News Apps just completely ignored the March for Life in a blackout so intense that even the pro-life marchers couldn’t find significant related coverage.

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The bank that turned financial censorship on its head is going public, striking a huge blow against the left’s ability to punish, silence and cancel their enemies.

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Federal Communications Chairman Brendan Carr stuck to his guns in the face of relentless criticism from Democrats, telling a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee that elitist media organizations can’t gobble up limited federal broadband while…

Tom Olohan, Luis Cornelio |

EXCLUSIVE: The “Big Four News Apps”  (Apple News, Google News, MSN and Yahoo News) quickly aligned to blame the Trump administration for the Minneapolis ICE shooting that resulted in the death of an anti-Trump activist who was blocking a road.

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Anthropic’s Claude and the Chinese government–affiliated AI chatbot DeepSeek both lashed out against President Trump’s arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, 

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Wikipedia spent 2025 acting as a mouthpiece for elitist media and a conduit for left-wing narratives, no matter how extreme, inflammatory or indefensible.

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Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales denied that the online encyclopedia has banned right-leaning sources, only to reference an example of that practice in the same discussion.

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Days after the European Union leveled a massive fine against X-owner Elon Musk, his xAI chatbot Grok admitted that X fell in line with European regulations which have taken a big step away from protecting free speech. 

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President Donald Trump responded Thursday to state governments and former Biden AI officials plotting to impose their censorship agenda on American artificial intelligence.

Michael Morris, Tom Olohan |

After nine years of radical leftist leadership, Wikipedia has been converted into one of the left’s most powerful megaphones, and it is hiding its strategy in plain sight.

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Former Biden administration officials clearly haven’t given up on censoring free speech online, and their push for artificial intelligence regulation shows it remains on their agenda.

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The Trump administration is fighting back after the European Union (EU) just levied a $140 million fine against Elon Musk’s X in an anti-free speech power grab. 

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Democrats are up in arms after House Republicans eliminated anti-free speech language from the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), but can House free speech advocates once again hold the line? 

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President Donald Trump promised to sue the BBC for its deceptive edits to one of his speeches. But that was not enough for Big Tech companies to axe the outlet from their AI training data sets.

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Following a flurry of MRC reports exposing Wikipedia’s bias and censorship, the so-called encyclopedia’s co-founder just called for the leftist website to commit to transparency and justice or face congressional action.

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Big Tech just got busted burying the scandals dogging Democrat candidates in the 2025 elections.  

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MRC Free Speech America exposed Wikipedia for creating an effective blacklist against right-of-center sources and greenlighting leftist coverage. Here’s one viciously anti-American, anti-Semitic source the so-called online encyclopedia’s editors…

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A prominent AI chatbot has a flagrantly partisan message for Americans looking for help this election day: Vote Democrat, straight down the ticket.