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MSN Doubles Down on Sidelining Right-Leaning Political Coverage

Luis Cornelio
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Apple News+ Subscription Is as Inadequate and Biased as You’d Expect

Heather Moon and Michael Morris

Victory! Missouri v. Biden Case Citing MRC Secures Free Speech

Gabriela Pariseau

MRC President Calls for Investigation of Apple News in Letter to FTC

Gabriela Pariseau
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87% Left-Leaning: Yahoo News Favors Left, Pushes Radical Sites in Feb.

Heather Moon and Dan Schneider
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How Did Big Four News Apps Respond to Schumer’s DHS Shutdown? Erasure

Luis Cornelio
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Big Four News Apps IGNORE Levin’s Bombshell Steve Witkoff Interview

Luis Cornelio

Google News Nearly Shuts Out Right-Leaning Stories in February—Only 2%

Gabriela Pariseau
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MSN Chokes Right Political Coverage; Study: 68-2 Imbalance Favors Left

Luis Cornelio

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Twitter Admits It Still ‘Ranks Tweets’ Based on Behavior

Wouldn’t it be nice if Twitter allowed people to see posts from everyone they followed in the order that things were posted?
Corinne Weaver

Bozell to Congress: Americans ‘Deserve Answers’ on Censorship

RESTON, VA — On August 31, Media Research Center founder and president Brent Bozell sent individual letters to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) concerning Wednesday’s hearings on social media platforms featuring officials from Facebook, Google and Twitter. 
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Twitter Waits to Remove Pic of Weeping Meghan McCain Targeted By Gun

Twitter jumps on conservative content at the first opportunity. But how long does it take for the platform to remove actual threatening posts? If the target is conservative, the answer is too long.
Corinne Weaver

Study: Google Pushes Liberal News in Top 5 Search Suggestions

A new study about Google News shows that while everyone gets the same results, five liberal news organizations “alone” made up 49 percent of the total recommendations from the respective experiments. The five were The New York Times, CNN, Politico, The Washington Post and HuffPost.
Corinne Weaver

Facebook and Twitter to Testify to House and Senate

Public officials are still calling into question the practices of social media tech companies. Both Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey are set to testify in front of both the House and Senate next week, on September 5. The Senate Intelligence Committee said their hearing was focused on “social media companies’ responses to foreign influence operations.”  
Corinne Weaver

UN Human Rights Chief Says Facebook Ignored Myanmar Genocide

While Facebook rushes to focus on hate speech in the United States, apparently it hasn’t analyzed accounts from war-torn places like Myanmar.
Corinne Weaver

MRC’s Dan Gainor on Big Tech Censorship: ‘We Want Fairness’

MRC Vice President of Business and Culture Dan Gainor recently appeared on the Fox Business Network’s After the Bell to discuss President Donald Trump’s concerns about conservative censorship online and to call for "fairness." Co-host David Asman asked what could be constituted as illegal censorship by big tech companies such as Facebook or Google on Aug. 29. Gainor replied, “I think some of the…
Gabriel Hays

Facebook Employees Fight Liberal ‘Intolerant Monoculture’

Google isn’t the only big tech company with internal issues.
Corinne Weaver

Twitter Tries to Take Back Initial Dana Loesch Ruling

It turns out public relations actually mean something to a tech company. After conservative outcry was sparked when NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch criticized Twitter for not suspending users who threatened her children, Twitter miraculously decided to reverse its initial decision. Whereas before the account was not found in violation for arguing that Loesch’s children should be murdered, now…
Corinne Weaver

Trump Administration ‘Taking a Look’ at Regulating Google

The Trump administration is potentially considering taking action against Google for reportedly censoring conservatives, following a tweet by President Trump that accused Google of rigging its results against conservatives. On Tuesday morning, Trump tweeted that Google may be engaging in an “illegal” practice by how it ranks search results. Trump said:  
Ashley Rae Goldenberg

New Facebook Marketing Chief Backed Dems, Like Predecessor

Facebook has announced its new incoming chief marketing officer, Antonio Lucio. Lucio will be replacing Gary Briggs who, in January, said he would be leaving after four and a half years to pursue advisory work--and to help the Democrats in the midterms and through 2020. Like his predecessor, Lucio has also indicated he supports Democrats.  
Ashley Rae Goldenberg

Twitter Ignores User Who Wanted Murder of Dana Loesch’s Children

On social media, hate speech will be swiftly removed. Unless the victim is perceived to be on the wrong side of the conversation. Conservative commentator, radio host, and NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch tweeted a screenshot of a comment she received from a Twitter user on August 26. The tweet stated that in order for Loesch to understand a point, she would need to have her children murdered. Loesch…
Corinne Weaver

ACLU Cautions Against Social Media Censorship

The ACLU is seemingly concerned about social media censorship.  
Ashley Rae Goldenberg

Trump: ‘You Can’t Have’ Social Media Censorship

While speaking at a rally in West Virginia on Tuesday, President Trump claimed the administration will stand up and defend people who say they are censored on social media.  
Ashley Rae Goldenberg