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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MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider and the creators of a newly released free speech documentary on free speech got to the heart of the decision that dealt a major blow to Big Tech censorship.

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The clock is ticking on massively powerful, deceptive and independent artificial intelligence (AI) according to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

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A study by Media Research Center (MRC) revealed that Google search results heavily favored left-leaning media outlets when searching for Donald Trump's cabinet nominees, providing significantly more articles from leftist outlets than right-…

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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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President-elect Donald Trump may have overcome Google’s election interference, but the search giant continues to rig presidential race search results. 

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The chickens are coming home to roost for the “digital brownshirts” at the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). 

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It is election day, and Google is still unrepentantly pushing leftist and legacy media on voters searching for the presidential race.

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Republican Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance called out the legacy media for remaining silent as prominent leftist politicians called for censorship. 

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Google continues to go to great lengths to block users from seeing any right-of-center media outlets on 2024 presidential election news.

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Amazon founder and owner Jeff Bezos may have tipped his hand on who he believes will be the next president of the United States.

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Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) joined a chorus of leftist voices begging Big Tech to censor more aggressively, hearkening back to the days of even more aggressive content moderation. 

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In a shocking move, the official page dedicated to Free Speech Week promoted an event devoted to a new and pernicious type of censorship: media literacy. 

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It’s late October in an election year and Meta is once again throttling a story that embarrasses Democrats, prompting Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr to sound the alarm on Fox Business.

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With only 14 days to go before election day, Google has not let up its efforts to bury right-leaning media and bolster leftist coverage in an apparent attempt to protect Vice President Kamala Harris and harm former President Donald Trump. 

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Just weeks away from the 2024 Presidential Election, CNN launched an absurd attack on some elected Republicans: They are willing to fight for free speech.

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For our first annual Free Speech Awards, the Media Research Center (MRC) is honoring 35 champions of the First Amendment, including five members of the U.S. Senate today, 10 members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, 10 additional…

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Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander has no interest in holding Kamala Harris accountable for recent devastating claims against her, including the claim that Harris plagiarized content from Wikipedia. 

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With only three weeks remaining before the election, Google continues to heavily push leftist media coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump in search results.

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Meta AI has exposed its pro-leftist bias on Columbus Day, following years of election interference on Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook on behalf of Democrats.

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ESG-obsessed BlackRock CEO Larry Fink strongly opposed holding Google accountable after the biased, pro-censorship search giant was declared a “monopolist” in court.