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Catherine Salgado | November 28, 2022

Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) warned that Chinese-owned social media app TikTok is as addictive and dangerous as “fentanyl” for children.

The fentanyl epidemic in America claims lives every day. But Gallagher says that TikTok is the…

Catherine Salgado | November 23, 2022

“It is a CCP, a Chinese Communist Party spy app, and Americans are using it. They should get off.” Heritage Foundation’s Kara Frederick emphasized the national security risks of TikTok on Fox News Tuesday.

There is an increasing…

Joseph Vazquez | August 15, 2022

A post that dared to accurately point out that an Internal Revenue Service job posting required a willingness to use “deadly force” apparently triggered Facebook’s leftist fact-checking partners.

Both Meta companies Facebook and Instagram…

Joseph Vazquez | July 19, 2022

A new data release by the liberal American Civil Liberties Union appears to expose nefarious Big Government data-mining happening right under your nose.

The ACLU issued a report July 18 headlined, “New Records Detail DHS Purchase and Use…

Catherine Salgado | July 8, 2022

The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project is suing the Biden administration for documents about the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) contract with a data mining company.

Heritage’s Oversight Project just filed a lawsuit for…

MRC Free Speech America’s CensorTrack database hit another milestone as Big Tech continues its agenda to silence free speech online at a steady pace.

MRC Free Speech America has now logged 4,000 cases of censorship in MRC’s unique…

Catherine Salgado | May 26, 2022

The Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board may be paused, but it’s not yet disbanded. And President Joe Biden’s chosen consultants indicate that the board still plans to censor Americans. 

If the Biden administration’s picks for…

Autumn Johnson | May 9, 2022

UPDATE: MRC Free Speech America reached out to YouTube for comment on its censorship actions against Heritage. YouTube provided the following statement:

"We removed content from and issued a strike to The Heritage Foundation channel…

Alexander Hall | April 5, 2022

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is now not only the biggest Twitter shareholder, but he is joining the social media company’s board, a move that set the platform’s users a chirping. 

Tesla CEO and Big Tech censorship critic Elon Musk…

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…

Catherine Salgado | March 22, 2022

The Media Research Center (MRC) is proud to announce the addition of a new partner to the Free Speech Alliance, The Heritage Foundation. “Big Tech is an enemy of the American people,” Heritage President Kevin Roberts said in a press release.…

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…

Brian Bradley | February 16, 2022

Free speech advocates cautioned about giving the government and university researchers exclusive authority over social media data as lawmakers expect to soon consider a proposal to force new information disclosures from Big Tech.

A…

Alexander Hall | February 15, 2022

Freedom advocates sounded the alarm as Canada announced potential financial penalties against Canadians trying to support protestors.

Commentators condemned Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland as she announced that banks and…

Joseph Vazquez | February 8, 2022

The Heritage Foundation released a damning report blasting censorship and showing that it has jumped fully into the fight against Silicon Valley speech controls. 

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts didn’t mince words about…

Brian Bradley | January 31, 2022

The “Big Four” tech companies – Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple – spent more than $55 million lobbying the federal government in 2021 to stave off antitrust legislation. That’s a $21 million increase over 2020, according to Politico Morning…

Brian Bradley | January 12, 2022

Conservative groups expressed doubt that the Facebook Oversight Board will direct the platform to stop its censorship in reaction to any critical comments it receives about a program that gives prominent users preferential treatment.

The…

Craig Bannister | December 3, 2021

“Big Tech has become the censorship arm of the Democratic Party,” Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared Thursday, pointing to Congressional testimony citing Media Research Center (MRC) studies proving his point.

Giant social…

Catherine Salgado | December 1, 2021

The Heritage Foundation technology policy research fellow Kara Frederick in congressional hearing testimony cited Media Research Center ground-breaking analysis on the political impacts of Big Tech’s censorship, including how Big Tech stole the…