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Gabriela Pariseau | September 9, 2022

Big Tech companies often don’t prioritize child safety, and parents know it. 

Eighty-two percent of American parents are concerned about Big Tech’s influence on their children’s lives, according to a new poll by child advocacy…

Paiten Iselin | September 9, 2022

The Communist China-appeasing oligarchs at TikTok have kicked the platform’s ridiculous censorship apparatus into high gear to nix free speech from its platform.

MRC Free Speech America has been tracking TikTok’s anti-American censorship…

Gabriela Pariseau | September 1, 2022
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Chinese Communist Party-tied TikTok is muzzling conservatives and free thinkers by shutting down their accounts, typically with no explanation.

Using our exclusive CensorTrack database, MRC Free Speech America…

Paiten Iselin | August 26, 2022

Get ready for some déjà vu. The same platforms that censored the New York Post Hunter Biden scandal stories before the 2020 presidential election are cranking up the censorship machine leading up to the 2022 midterms.

This week’s episode…

Catherine Salgado | August 24, 2022

Chinese Communist Party-tied ByteDance not only owns other tech companies like the U.S. app TikTok, it also is extending its influence to sectors including news and the medical industry, Forbes reported.

Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-tied…

Catherine Salgado | August 19, 2022

Major tech companies, including TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent shared details for the first time about their algorithms with the Chinese Communist Party, as the CCP demanded more user data information from companies–…

Autumn Johnson | August 17, 2022

Oracle is vetting and auditing TikTok’s algorithms.

On Tuesday, Axios reported that Oracle will be responsible for reviewing the platform’s content moderation methods and will soon have all U.S. user data on its cloud. An Oracle…

Catherine Salgado | August 17, 2022

Foreign interference in U.S. elections? Chinese Communist Party-linked TikTok launched an in-app Elections Center in the lead-up to the 2022 U.S. midterm elections.

On Aug. 17, TikTok released a statement detailing, “Our commitment to…

Paiten Iselin | August 17, 2022

They’re at it again! Two of the leading platforms responsible for censoring the bombshell New York Post Hunter Biden scandal stories before the 2020 presidential election are gearing up to censor free speech to combat so-called “misinformation”…

Joseph Vazquez | August 16, 2022

The New York Times is having another meltdown over so-called “election misinformation” on social media and trying to pressure Big Tech companies to up their already bloated censorship operations. 

Times technology reporter Tiffany…

Brian Bradley, Paiten Iselin | August 16, 2022

Big Tech sent a stark message to conservatives during the second quarter of this year that it will continue to fiercely protect President Joe Biden and censor viewpoints that differ from the left’s narrative on major political issues.

Autumn Johnson | August 14, 2022

China’s leading video game studio is reportedly gaining power in a world-famous video game company.

Earlier in the month, Reuters exclusively reported that Tencent, the communist country’s largest video game studio, is acquiring a greater…

Catherine Salgado | August 5, 2022

Former moderators for Chinese Communist Party-tied TikTok reportedly said that their training materials included a large amount of explicit child abuse videos and images.

Former third-party moderators for TikTok from the company…

The Chinese Communist Party-tied TikTok reached the climax of its lengthy battle with the Media Research Center’s video division by entirely axing it from the platform without notice.

An MRCTV staff member opened the TikTok App to find…

Catherine Salgado | July 29, 2022

A Chinese government public relations entity reportedly tried to open a “stealth” TikTok account to target Western audiences with propaganda.

A 2020 internal message to Elizabeth Kanter, TikTok’s head of government relations for the UK,…

Catherine Salgado | July 27, 2022

“It ends with China having all of your data,” popular podcaster Joe Rogan said of Americans’ use of TikTok on his show Tuesday.

Chinese employees from TikTok’s parent company, Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-tied ByteDance, have direct…

Catherine Salgado | July 21, 2022

More than half of Americans want app stores to remove TikTok following revelations that Chinese employees can directly access U.S. user data.

According to a new survey from The Trafalgar Group, 58.6 percent of Americans want TikTok to be…

NB Staff | July 21, 2022

Appearing late Wednesday/early Thursday on the Fox News Channel’s Fox News @ Night, MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell shared the findings of Free Speech America’s (FSA) blockbuster study on secondhand censorship by Big Tech, saying the…

Catherine Salgado | July 15, 2022

Woke pro-LGBTQ group GLAAD just gave five Big Tech platforms a failing score on LGBTQ “safety” online. 

“They don’t have enforcement,” GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis claimed July 14 on CBS Mornings.

Radical LGBTQ+ organization…

Catherine Salgado | July 13, 2022

[Editor's Note: This story has been changed to note that RuthSentUs is a parody Twitter account. A previous version of this story wrongly referred to the account as "radical pro-abortion protestors."]

The RuthSentUs and Antifa Sacramento…