Ron Johnson

Gabriela Pariseau | August 31, 2023

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) exposed how the CDC was behind censoring its own data.

In a recent letter to Twitter, Johnson called out the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for allegedly manipulating the COVID-19 narrative to…

Brian Bradley | November 2, 2022

Google is burying the campaign websites of its fiercest critics on Capitol Hill. 

Shortly after MRC Free Speech America released its study showing that Google suppressed Senate Republicans’ campaign websites in its search results, it…

Gabriela Pariseau | October 25, 2022

Anti-Democracy Google is manipulating search results to bury Senate Republican candidates’ campaign websites before the 2022 midterm elections. This comes on the heels of a North Carolina State University study that found that Google’s Gmail…

Autumn Johnson | September 28, 2022

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) last week requested YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki send company documents related to the censorship of Johnson's videos and the multiple suspensions his account has received. He wrote that he is giving the company until Oct. 5…

Joseph Vazquez | September 20, 2022

PolitiFact had the audacity to argue like President Joe Biden’s eco-extremist policies didn't really have anything to do with America’s energy inflation crisis, continuing to prove why its worthless so-called “fact-checks” belong in the trash bin…

Catherine Salgado | June 14, 2022

President Joe Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas gave Congress “apparently misleading” testimony about the Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board, according to a group of Republican senators.

Senate Republicans…

Alexander Hall | May 24, 2022

The Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) may be paused, but senators on Monday demanded the Biden administration release documents and communications from the entity many have nicknamed the “Ministry of Truth.” 

Thanks to a group of…

Gabriela Pariseau | May 20, 2022

Republican lawmakers called for the Senate to defund the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board

Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) led 17 other Republican lawmakers who sent a letter to the Senate Appropriations…

Jeffrey Clark | March 31, 2022

The leftist thought police at PolitiFact fact-checked a prominent Republican senator for daring to say that President Joe Biden’s terrible energy policies caused high gas prices. 

PolitiFact reporter Laura Schulte claimed Sen. Ron…

Joseph Vazquez, Gabriela Pariseau | February 9, 2022

Big Tech speech restrictions turned COVID-19 into the most pro-censorship environment in the U.S. at least since World War II. Media Research Center has found more than 800 examples of bans, deleted content, and other speech restrictions related…

Brian Bradley | January 19, 2022

The Media Research Center today launched a new initiative to stop Big Tech’s election interference. The MRC sent a letter to congressional staff to collect a comprehensive report of lawmakers censored by Big Tech.

MRC Free Speech America…

Autumn Johnson | November 12, 2021

YouTube has once again temporarily suspended Senator Ron Johnson’s channel over so-called COVID-19 “misinformation.”

Johnson has frequently criticized the government’s “authoritarian” responses. This time, he was suspended over a video…

Catherine Salgado | October 28, 2021

“Who is going to be the unbiased arbiter of truth? I don’t think it exists,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said, challenging the leftist narrative pushing for greater censorship of online speech.

Johnson called out leftist witnesses for…

Autumn Johnson | October 21, 2021

YouTube has removed an interview with Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson because of his comments on COVID-19 vaccinations.

Johnson said he disagreed with giving a COVID-19 vaccine to children ages 5-11. Show host Dan O’Donnell said the video…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | October 13, 2021

It’s Episode Seven of MRC’s new video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about the Free Speech America study which reported that Big Tech censors GOP congressmen by 54 to 1 more than Democrats.   

Big Tech…

Alec Schemmel, Dan Gainor | October 12, 2021

Big Tech censorship didn’t just repeatedly restrict and finally ban President Donald Trump. Social media companies overwhelmingly censored Republican members of Congress by a rate of 54-to-1 compared to congressional Democrats, according to a new…

Alec Schemmel | September 21, 2021

Big Tech overwhelmingly censors Republican members of Congress by a rate of 53-to-1 compared to congressional Democrats.

That censorship has hit Republican Senators Rand Paul (KY) and Ron Johnson (WI), Rep. Jim Jordan (OH) and other…

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…

Joseph Vazquez | March 5, 2021

Washington Post national correspondent Philip Bump made a wild argument to try to pressure Congress to pass a massive $1.9 trillion stimulus bill that his own newspaper said may be “mismatched.”

Bump’s March 4 story, updated…

Alec Schemmel | February 3, 2021

YouTube has removed video footage of a U.S. Senate hearing — at least the second time the platform has censored a Senate hearing.

YouTube took down “two videos of doctors testifying under oath,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) tweeted on January…