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Catherine Salgado | August 10, 2023

Despite evidence of Chinese government-tied TikTok’s national security risks, WIRED just published a piece falsely framing Americans’ concerns as racist.

WIRED contributor Yangyang Cheng’s August 9 piece,  “The All-American Myth of…

Catherine Salgado | March 27, 2023

Multiple congressmen from both parties are calling to target or ban TikTok after the popular app’s CEO Shou Zi Chew testified to Congress.

Communist Chinese government-tied TikTok is “an immediate threat” to America, according to Rep.…

Catherine Salgado | March 16, 2023

House Republicans have passed a bill that would prevent federal government officials from putting pressure on tech platforms to censor.

House bill HR 140, or the “Protecting Speech from Government Interference Act,” would “prohibit…

Catherine Salgado | September 15, 2022

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and two other Republican House lawmakers on Tuesday demanded the Biden White House hand over its correspondence allegedly pressuring Big Tech to increase online censorship.

House Energy and Commerce…

Catherine Salgado | 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…

Catherine Salgado | August 2, 2022

The Babylon Bee CEO and the leader of the House Republican Big Tech Task Force are taking the sting out of Big Tech censorship by detailing three ways to hold Big Tech companies to account.

Section 230 reform, new Federal Trade…

Brian Bradley | 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…

Brian Bradley | March 2, 2022

UPDATE: This story has been updated to reflect that Frances Haugen was one of the State of the Union guests for First Lady Jill Biden.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) called on President Joe Biden to take…

Catherine Salgado | December 20, 2021

A group of congressmen have sent a letter to new pro-censorship Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, urging the new CEO to address Twitter’s history of biased censorship and make the platform more pro-free speech.

Thirteen House Republican Big Tech…

Alexander Hall | December 6, 2021

House Democrats are pushing legislation that would allow platform users to sue Big Tech companies for “emotional injury.” House Energy and Commerce Committee ranking member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) skewered the legislation and those pushing…

Catherine Salgado | October 27, 2021

Facebook’s algorithms and tools reportedly unfairly limited conservative news sites and personalities. Facebook employees also reportedly exerted continual pressure on their company to censor more. But Congressmen have had enough and spoke out…

Kayla Sargent | July 30, 2021

House Republicans launched an effort to rein in Big Tech’s growing tyranny with an onslaught of new bills in a massive push to fight back against online censorship.

Republicans in the House Energy and Commerce Committee unveiled a package…

Kayla Sargent | February 24, 2021

The war against free speech has spilled over from Big Tech and has now begun to rage in traditional media forums. The left has now sought to target conservative media in a congressional hearing today, but House Republicans were not having it.…

Kayla Sargent | September 24, 2020

Amidst calls for Section 230 reform and antitrust lawsuits against Google and Facebook, a House subcommittee hearing today explored the relationship between Big Tech’s lack of accountability and the radicalization of their respective platforms’…

Corinne Weaver | October 17, 2019

Big tech has presented many problems for the legislators in Washington to tackle. One of those is regulation.

Many politicians on both sides of the aisle have discussed government regulation of Big Tech. Government regulation and amending…