Censoring the News

Autumn Johnson | October 30, 2023

MRC Free Speech America has exposed NewsGuard for its rank bias in favor of the left, but a new lawsuit reveals more information about an alleged conspiracy between the flawed media ratings firm and the Pentagon to censor speech online.

Autumn Johnson | September 26, 2023

A new poll from RealClear Opinion Research confirms what we already know: the majority of Democrats are fine with online censorship. In fact, they are the ones pushing for it.

The results of a recent RealClear Opinion poll were…

Luis Cornelio | April 4, 2023

Anti-free speech Big Tech platform YouTube slapped RSBN with a seven-day ban the day prior it was scheduled to cover former President Trump’s NYC arraignment.

The Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) slammed YouTube…

Luis Cornelio | March 17, 2023

Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon ripped the real intent behind the leftist censorship in a fiery but mostly peaceful tweet.

“Let's not forget that the lovers of censorship are not actually concerned with stopping the spread of misinformation…

Autumn Johnson | August 14, 2021

Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies says Google altered its news algorithm to directly target former President Donald Trump.

Vorhies was a senior software engineer at YouTube and Google. He left after discovering the companies censored…

Autumn Johnson | June 13, 2021

Facebook Vice President Nick Clegg admitted that the tech giant’s “fact-checkers” employed to weed out “fake news” from the platform could be biased.

Facebook reportedly uses 80 different organizations across the world to flag…

Autumn Johnson | June 11, 2021

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has been suspended from YouTube for seven days after he posted content promoting experimental treatments for COVID-19.

The senator led two Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearings…

Autumn Johnson | June 4, 2021

The Tiananmen Square massacre was an important event in the history of freedom, except at Microsoft. Bing, the global search engine owned by Microsoft, is not displaying search results for the famous “tank man” who challenged Chinese power.…

Autumn Johnson | April 18, 2021

Twitter is under fire for its double standards. The site featured an article that relied on hacked materials to out police officers who donated to a crowdfunding campaign. This is the same site that banned a Hunter Biden story for allegedly using…

Casey Ryan | March 22, 2021

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell joined with The Heartland Institute to warn of the threat that Big Tech poses to the United States.

Bozell set the tone of how dangerous Big Tech’s unparalleled power has become for America…

Alec Schemmel | February 24, 2021

Facebook has come to an agreement with the Australian government in order to bring back Australian news to its platform.

In retaliation to a proposed law in Australia that would require tech giants like Facebook and Google to pay for news…

Julia A. Seymour | April 30, 2019

It’s clear The New York Times has its mind made up about climate change and the debate is over — at least in their newsroom.

Speaking on a journalism panel on April 30, International climate change reporter Somini Sengupta…

Dan Gainor | October 16, 2018

So much for Twitter being the “free speech wing of the free speech party.” Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey couldn’t have distanced himself further from that famous 2012 quote. He told a “Wired 25” audience Tuesday that the…

Julia A. Seymour | April 10, 2018

A fuzzy animal, faulty directions and famous murderers all outranked the latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The BLS announced on April 6, that the U.S. added 103,000 jobs in March and unemployment remained low.…

NB Staff | October 23, 2017

The media want to ignore Hillary Clinton and the Russian uranium deal because “it defies what they want to talk about,” according to MRC’s Vice President for Business and Culture Dan Gainor.

Appearing on Fox and Friends…

Sam Dorman | December 30, 2016

One liberal academic argued for censorship of politicians who dissent from liberal orthodoxy on climate change.

History professor at California State University, Sacramento Joseph A. Palermo argued President-Elect Donald Trump should not…

Julia A. Seymour | October 12, 2016

NBC executives had planned to use video of the vulgar discussion between Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Billy Bush to influence the election.