Heather Moon
MRC Free Speech America Senior Researcher

Heather Moon is a Senior Researcher for the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America division. She previously wrote for The Resurgent. She has a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Liberty University, as well as a Master’s of Library Science from Texas Woman’s University.

Heather Moon | April 2, 2021

Twitter’s abuse of the sensitive content filter is another form of censorship and the company uses it a huge amount. Twitter deployed it to reduce the reach and engagement of at least 350 conservative accounts in the past year. 

That…

Heather Moon | March 29, 2021

A new study from a George Soros-funded group used flawed methodology to claim Facebook failed to prevent more than 10 billion views of so-called “misinformation.” 

The study used Facebook’s fact checkers, shown to be inaccurate and…

Heather Moon | March 16, 2021

A new study from a leftist group claims that Instagram uses its recommendations to promote “dangerous misinformation and conspiracy theories.” But the study was vague about what that even means.

The study design was as biased as the group…

Heather Moon | March 5, 2021

Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said that Twitter suspended his account for speaking out against the folly of deliberately allowing illegal immigrants to cross the border freely in the time of COVID-19.

Gingrich…

Heather Moon | February 25, 2021

A new Anti-Defamation League study labels conservative commentators and members of the “Intellectual Dark Web” as “gateways” to extremist content. 

The five authors of the Anti-Defamation League study titled “Exposure to Alternative…

Heather Moon | February 1, 2021

In a sign of the times, Twitter censored Catholic World Report over its accurate description of a biological male identifying as a transgender woman.

Catholic World Report, a news outlet founded 30 years ago that reports on current events…