The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday struck down a bill that would have allowed big media companies to ignore antitrust laws and jointly negotiate with social media companies on content distribution.
The committee by a vote of 11-10…
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September 9, 2022
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August 31, 2022
Uphold the First Amendment! Several House lawmakers apparently seek to do just that by introducing a bill to make government-sponsored censorship illegal.
House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jim Jordan (R-OH), House Oversight…
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July 26, 2022
The House Oversight and Reform Committee is set to approve a bill that would give the federal government more power over digital ID.
On Monday, Reclaim The Net reported that Rep. Bill Foster (D-IL) reintroduced the bill with bipartisan…
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July 8, 2022
At least one Republican senator and one Democratic senator are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate TikTok. “There is bipartisan consensus on this threat and no excuse for inaction while Americans remain at risk,” Sen. Marco…
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July 7, 2022
Following pressure from Democratic Party lawmakers and the liberal media, Google announced that it would make a new exception for retaining users’ location history—users visiting abortion clinics.
After the U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs v.…
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June 23, 2022
Big Tech companies have shown that science is only relevant when it’s not confirming biological facts about sex and gender, and they don’t hesitate to censor anybody who wields science against them.
MRC Free Speech America found and…
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June 22, 2022
Eight House Republicans on Tuesday joined their Senate counterparts in proposing legislation aimed at curbing left-wing political bias in email services’ spam filters.
The House bill, like its Senate companion, would require email…
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June 17, 2022
YouTube has shown time and time again that it won’t allow users to post about Jan. 6 or the 2020 election unless they outright deny claims of potential fraud or vote-counting errors. The Congressional January 6 Committee is no exception.
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June 17, 2022
House Republicans on Monday introduced a bill to stop Big Tech from allowing Chinese Communist Party senior officials to have accounts on American social media platforms.
The “China Social Media Reciprocity Act” would prevent certain…
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June 15, 2022
Comedian and late night host John Oliver slammed Amazon’s and Google’s antitrust practices on his show and urged antitrust reform.
HBO’s Last Week Tonight host John Oliver took aim at Google’s and Amazon’s anticompetitive practices on…
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June 14, 2022
Here we go again! White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy said “we need the tech companies to really jump in” to combat so-called disinformation and misinformation.
It’s not the first time the Biden administration has advocated…
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June 3, 2022
Three congressional lawmakers sent letters to NewsGuard and the American Federation of Teachers union. The letters cited original MRC Free Speech America research to illustrate NewsGuard’s leftist bias and the dangers of its new partnership with…
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May 26, 2022
Another day yields another liberal news story that protects Big Tech from allegations of election interference to benefit the left.
Just days after Politico defended leftist Google from allegations of election interference, The Washington…
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May 24, 2022
The Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) may be paused, but senators on Monday demanded the Biden administration release documents and communications from the entity many have nicknamed the “Ministry of Truth.”
Thanks to a group of…
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April 15, 2022
Democrats recently released plans to fight “Online Misinformation” that featured a blueprint for online censorship. Congressional Democrats, however, have sponsored or co-sponsored at least 18 Big Tech bills with Republicans. That combination…
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March 15, 2022
UPDATE: This piece has been updated to include a quote from Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).
Notable conservatives tore into Facebook after a report from WIRED emerged that alleged the platform has allowed child exploitation groups to…
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March 11, 2022
A new bill introduced by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) could drive censorship online. Klobuchar said the NUDGE Act would help address so-called “misinformation.”
Klobuchar introduced the “Nudging Users to Drive Good Experiences on Social…
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March 3, 2022
The New York Times pinned responsibility for “containing inflation” on the U.S. Federal Reserve, despite President Joe Biden’s vague promises during the State of the Union Address to “fight inflation” and “build a better America.” It seems that…
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March 3, 2022
Twitter locked Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s (R-MO) personal Twitter account for a tweet denouncing transgender athletes’ participation in women’s sports.
Hartzler tweeted: “Women’s Sports are for Women, not men pretending to be women,”…
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February 18, 2022
In the latest censorship effort to demonize self-defense tools, five Democratic Party senators are pressuring YouTube to remove “ghost gun” videos.
“Ghost guns are unserialized firearms that anyone can get their hands on—without a…
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