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March 2, 2023
“We are dealing with tyranny.” Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY), Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) and moderator Katie Pavlich, Townhall editor, slammed online censorship and the far-reaching consequences of the attack on free speech.
From calling out the FBI and…
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March 2, 2023
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody told MRC Free Speech America & MRC Business Vice President Dan Schneider at the CPAC Big Tech panel Thursday that Big Tech is “one of the most relevant issues to our daily lives right now.”
Schneider…
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October 20, 2022
Google is once again accused of manipulating users and their data for the company’s own gain.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alleged in a lawsuit Thursday that Google collected biometric data without user consent. A press release from his office…
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September 29, 2022
UPDATE: Since posting this story, CPAC spokesperson Alex Pfeiffer told MRC Free Speech America that YouTube has removed another day of proceedings from the CPAC Texas event held in Dallas Aug. 4-7. Initially, YouTube had only removed the…
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September 18, 2022
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld Texas's “free speech” law on Friday, which would prevent social media companies from censoring certain viewpoints online.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said that the ruling was a major win…
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June 12, 2022
Journalists at The New York Times criticized Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s efforts to push back against online censorship.
The paper published an article in the technology section that accused Paxton of standing up against censorship online…
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June 7, 2022
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation into the number of bot accounts on Twitter.
According to FOX Business, Paxton’s office issued a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) to investigate whether Twitter’s reporting on the number of…
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March 30, 2022
It’s Episode 31 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how YouTube took down two days’ worth of videos from the February 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
YouTube’s About page states,”Our mission is to…
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February 28, 2022
Over the weekend during a CPAC panel, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) slammed Big Tech dominance. A long proponent of reforming Section 230, Lankford stated reform was essential to protecting free speech.
Lankford doubled down on this…
Texas AG Sues Facebook for Billion for ‘Deception, Lies and Brazen Abuses of Texans’ Privacy Rights’
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February 15, 2022
On Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that he has sued Facebook (now known as Meta) for illegally capturing and using the biometric data of millions of Texans and failing to destroy the collected data in a reasonable period of time…