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May 20, 2022
UPDATE: This piece has been updated to reflect that Senator Cruz provided MRC Free Speech America with a statement.
Months ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, Google leadership reportedly ignored GOP senators’ legitimate questions about Gmail’s…
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April 19, 2022
Sen. Ted Cruz said Elon Musk’s battle with Twitter is one of the most important battles for free speech in decades. Musk offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion dollars.
In response, Twitter implemented a “poison pill” strategy in an effort to…
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February 9, 2022
Republican senators slammed President Joe Biden’s FCC nominee Gigi Sohn during her Feb. 9 Senate confirmation hearing. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and others hit her both for her bias and for a “sweetheart deal.”
“Did you disclose that sweetheart deal?”…
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February 8, 2022
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission that demanded an investigation into GoFundMe.
GoFundMe faced criticism last week after it banned–and then reinstated–a fundraiser dedicated to the “Freedom Convoy,” a large group…
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February 1, 2022
The debate over the bipartisan antitrust American Innovation and Choice Online Act just took a new direction, as censorship advocates indicated that one provision could protect the free speech of Big Tech-alternative platforms.
The bipartisan…
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January 21, 2022
Google reportedly increased its U.S. lobbying spending by 27 percent in 2021, as lawmakers began a push to enact new tech legislation to regulate the industry.
Google, which is owned by Alphabet Inc., increased its lobbying expenditures, according…
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January 20, 2022
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday that Big Tech censorship is the “single greatest threat” to “free speech” and “fair elections” in America. Cruz also called for legislation specifically targeting Big Tech’s biased…
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December 21, 2021
While being interviewed by Fox News Digital on Monday, Apple’s virtual assistant Siri just happened to interrupt Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). And just what was he talking about when Siri interjected? Big Tech, of course.
"Big…
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October 26, 2021
The U.S. Senate hearing on SnapChat, TikTok, and YouTube today made one thing very clear: TikTok does not appear to want to give straight answers about its connection to China. But U.S. Senators took the Big Tech platform to the mat.
U.S. Senators…
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June 16, 2021
Conservative lawmakers condemned Facebook for censoring former President Donald Trump while simultaneously allowing the Chinese Communist Party to post propaganda freely on its platform.
When asked for their reaction to a Media Research Center (MRC…