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Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | April 27, 2022

It’s Episode 35 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about a recent MRC study that found 646 cases of censorship that covered criticism of President Joe Biden over the past two years. 

Using the CensorTrack database, MRC Free…

Catherine Salgado | April 26, 2022

Seventy-one percent of global executives say that the metaverse will be good for businesses, according to a new survey. Several of the biggest names in both business and woke politics are rushing to stake their virtual claim in the metaverse.…

Autumn Johnson | April 21, 2022

A new report alleged that Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Meta, used her position to pressure a tabloid to drop an article about her then-boyfriend.

At the time, Sandberg dated Bobby Kotick, the CEO of Activision. Activision Blizzard is a…

Big Tech’s campaign to protect President Joe Biden and his agenda has continued unabated. The Media Research Center found more than 640 examples of bans, deleted content and other speech restrictions placed on those who criticized Biden on social…

Brian Bradley | April 20, 2022

Twitter and Facebook worked in lockstep to restrict the flow of the Hunter Biden laptop story just before the 2020 presidential election. These platforms stifled the spread of that story at the same time that Big Media did, as MRC research found…

Joseph Vazquez | April 19, 2022

The hypocrisy of Facebook’s fact-checking partners knows no bounds. In an act of discrimination against the Media Research Center, a Meta platform fact-checking partner threw a fit after MRC’s video division, MRCTV, dared to write about a video…

Catherine Salgado | April 12, 2022

“I am close to a First Amendment absolutist,” former President Barack Obama said last week, even as he called misinformation potentially “fatal” and suggested “modifications” to online anonymity. 

The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey…

Joseph Vazquez | April 7, 2022

It seems like terrible public relations for Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to publicly refer to himself as the Dark Lord of Mordor while running one of the internet’s largest censorship operations.

Zuckerberg joined The Tim Ferriss Show on…

Joseph Vazquez | April 1, 2022

Big Tech censors: We know what we’re doing. Their algorithms: April Fools! It’s a tall task for Big Tech companies to justify mashing the censorship button on conservative speech when the systems they use to do their dirty work are so stupid that…

Autumn Johnson | March 30, 2022

Big Tech faced yet another blow from the Department of Justice.

Originally reported by The Wall Street Journal, the DOJ sent letters to members of the congressional judiciary committees and asked them to support an antitrust bill that…

NB Staff | March 29, 2022

In a Tuesday appearance on the Fox Business Network’s The Evening Edit, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell called out the liberal Big Tech companies and media for their “censorship” of the Hunter Biden laptop story that has recently…

Catherine Salgado | March 29, 2022

Twitter, Facebook and YouTube allow seven dictators, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, unfettered access to post on their platforms, influencing approximately 50 million followers as of March 28. Meanwhile, former leader of the free…

Craig Bannister | March 28, 2022

Recalling White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s revelation that the Biden Administration is working with Big Tech social media platforms to limit free speech, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) warned Friday of the threat to Americans’ First Amendment…

Joseph Vazquez | March 28, 2022

So-called fact-checkers should be eating crow following authentication of the emails from Hunter Biden’s notorious laptop by The New York Times. But a new analysis shows they’re being as brazen as ever by not updating old articles challenging the…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | March 23, 2022

It’s Episode 30 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how Facebook censored Heritage Action’s video compilation of President Joe Biden praising his anti-American energy plan. 

On March 10, Heritage Action, a grassroots…

Joseph Vazquez | March 21, 2022

MRC Free Speech America’s CensorTrack database reached an important milestone as it continues to monitor the war Big Tech companies have waged on free speech online.

CensorTrack has now surpassed 3,500 total censorship cases documented by…

Autumn Johnson | March 20, 2022

The chief executive of a megafund dedicated to health care workers attacked Facebook for allowing “misinformation.”

Debby Blakey is chief executive of HESTA, a megafund worth $68 billion.

Blakey called for more regulation of the…

Alexander Hall | March 17, 2022

Big Tech censorship went from targeting statements of former President Donald Trump to targeting quotes of current President Biden’s embarrassing statements. Heritage Action was their latest target.

Is quoting the president’s own words a…

Catherine Salgado | 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…

Joseph Vazquez | March 14, 2022

Social media influencer An0maly blasted Big Tech giants Instagram and TikTok, asking whether they worked in cahoots to silence him on their platforms.

Both Instagram and Communist Chinese app TikTok both targeted An0maly for his videos on…