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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Following the Sean “Diddy” Combs sex trafficking trial verdict, prominent AI chatbots answered whether it is morally wrong to pay for sex. Their answers were disappointing.

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The House Judiciary Committee published a report exposing how a now-shuttered advertising giant with 90 percent control of ad dollars colluded with foreign governments to censor free speech in America. 

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MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider identified three giant organizations that appear to work together to push anti-Semitism.

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Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson just secured a huge win in his fight against an advertising giant, prompting it to renounce a coercive tool aimed at choking out disfavored media. 

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Former President Barack Obama had some harsh criticism for Big Tech platforms that allow free speech, while delivering remarks at the June 17 Connecticut Forum.

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Google’s Gemini drastically changed its answer on radical content targeting children once it became clear that taxpayer money was on the line. 

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France reportedly arrested a Big Tech CEO, took his phone, detained him for days and continues to restrict his travel. Here’s what he told independent journalist Tucker Carlson about the European Union’s crackdown on online speech.

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The Biden-era State Department promoted censorship in Brazil, according to documents highlighted by former State Department official and free speech advocate Mike Benz.

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The New York Times’s legal attack on OpenAI could jeopardize the privacy of every ChatGPT user and may expose disturbing levels of leftist bias in the process.

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A massive American financial institution publicly renounced debanking customers for their political views.

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A major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot has exhibited troubling behaviors in response to researcher testing, as multiple models rebelled against commands.

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The Trump administration is coming after foreign government officials who pressure Big Tech platforms to censor Americans—and Brazil might be their first target.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a big move against foreigners who trample the rights of Americans. 

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The Trump-appointed commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration exposed the Biden administration on Fox News for seeking to censor potentially damning information about vaccines.

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Free speech advocates directly confronted the European Parliament (EP) and pushed the pro-censorship body to make a massive course correction.

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MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider and other free speech advocates exposed the insidious impact of a vague European censorship law from the capital of the European Union.

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The creator of a social media platform with a billion monthly active users warned that the same country prosecuting him for speech on his platform pressured him to interfere in a European election.

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Vice President JD Vance warned radio and podcast host Glenn Beck that Americans should be concerned about anti-free speech moves abroad, predicting significant “friction” between America and other nations.

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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), stressed that medical and scientific advancement is made possible by the protection of free speech. 

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MRC Free Speech America made a disturbing find on the website of a radical anti-free speech group.