Censorship

Rogan, Rodgers Cite MRC Study Finding 96% Negative Coverage for Musk
On the most recent episode of the world’s most popular podcast, a moment made possible by the Media Research Center: Joe Rogan and Aaron Rodgers discuss the negative coverage drawn by the DOGEfather, Tesla/SpaceX founder Elon Musk.

MRC VP Schneider Denounces ‘Greatest Weapon’ for Censorship
MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider and other free speech advocates exposed the insidious impact of a vague European censorship law from the capital of the European Union.

Big Tech CEO Says France Pressed Him to Interfere in Romanian Election
The creator of a social media platform with a billion monthly active users warned that the same country prosecuting him for speech on his platform pressured him to interfere in a European election.

Censorious NY Times Frets Over Trump's 'Misinformation Research Cuts
New York Times reporter Steven Lee Myers, who covers “misinformation and disinformation” and is a social media censorship supporter and First Amendment non-fan, is back with a story posted on Thursday, relaying the sad news that the Trump administration against self-styled invariably leftist misinformation “experts” – i.e. social media censors: “Trump Administration Cancels Scores of…

WATCH: Vance Makes Free Speech Prediction in Latest EU Rebuke
Vice President JD Vance warned radio and podcast host Glenn Beck that Americans should be concerned about anti-free speech moves abroad, predicting significant “friction” between America and other nations.

Jordan Issues Warning to EU Country Threatening US Free Speech
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) is looking to protect speech both domestically and abroad.

NPR Host Admits Show Censored Coverage of Common Sense COVID Proposal
Well, here’s a surprise: NPR’s “On Point” podcast, hosted by Meghna Chakrabarti and transmitting out of NPR member station WBUR in Boston, featured, on its May 5 show, an interview with author David Zweig highly critical of the hysterical and harmful reaction by the liberal “public health” establishment to the COVID pandemic. What's more, Chakrabarti herself revealed that an NPR higher-up cut…

Bhattacharya on Free Speech: ‘Essential for Scientific Progress’
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), stressed that medical and scientific advancement is made possible by the protection of free speech.

Grenell RIPS Anti-Free Speech HRC’s Whole Rating System: ‘Total Scam'
MRC Free Speech America made a disturbing find on the website of a radical anti-free speech group.

Leading Romanian Candidate Slams Censors: ‘They Cannot Control Us’
Member of the Assembly of Deputies of Romania George Simion told Human Events Senior Editor Jack Posobiec what free speech on social media means to his campaign and his country.

DHS’s Noem Defends Change to Agency Exposed for Censorship
A Democratic representative mourned a huge change to a government agency responsible for massive censorship. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem put him in his place.

PBS: Protecting Jewish Students Equals 'Chilling of Speech on Campus'
The PBS News Hour ended Tuesday evening’s show to a discussion of the “chilling effect” of Trump’s executive actions on free speech on campus, based on the pro-Hamas agitators occupying campus quads and sometimes vandalizing campus buildings and attacking Jewish students, a segment slanted heavily toward the pro-Palestinian side. No surprise there, given that a June 2024 Media…

State Department Rebukes Foreign Anti-Free Speech Crackdown
Trump’s State Department condemned an anti-free speech government pressuring X to censor.

NPR: Trump's Defunding Order an 'Affront to First Amendment Rights'
Both PBS and National Public Radio are cadging for change, even before President Trump’s executive order cutting taxpayer funds to PBS and NPR through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. But NPR has gone out a bit further on the ledge since then, their tone becoming increasingly aggressive, even apocalyptic, as demonstrated by three recent donation banners that have flown on NPR’s…