Censorship

Andrew Ferguson, the new Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), asked the American people to send him examples of Big Tech censorship. The Media Research Center has just the tool to deliver.

White House correspondent Peter Baker indulged his paranoia in a story in Friday’s New York Times: “In Trump’s Washington, a Moscow-Like Chill Takes Hold -- A new administration’s efforts to pressure the news media, punish political opponents and tame the nation’s tycoons evoke the early days of President Vladimir V. Putin’s reign in Russia.” The odious Russia comparison is not just a…

The House Judiciary Committee made big moves to get to the bottom of foreign attacks on free speech.

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) didn’t spend years fighting Big Tech censorship to let Massachusetts Democrat Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) outright deny that censorship faced by conservatives on social media platforms exists. 

European bureaucrats eager to crack down on free speech seek major leverage over American social media platforms, House Republicans warned on Sunday.

Because HBO’s John Oliver waited until last week to kick off the 2025 season of Last Week Tonight, he is still catching up on all the news he missed. On Sunday, Oliver turned his attention to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to ditch its fact-checking partners, calling the decision “self-serving bullshit.” Oliver also tried to dismiss Big Tech censorship concerns, claiming Facebook…

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) ripped search giant Google for abusing its power to exert influence over the minds of Americans. 

Google and Meta artificial intelligence stunningly seemed to defend CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan’s crazy assertion that free speech caused a genocide.

The Trump administration dealt a massive blow to the censorship “nerve center” of the federal government. 

PBS’s regular Monday political conclave with Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter and NPR White House reporter Tamara Keith ran hotter than usual, with concerns about President Trump’s purported assault on the First Amendment fanning the fear flames, leading the panel to make ridiculous defenses of the non-partisan (!) Associated Press.

Vice President JD Vance denounced German censorship after a major legacy media player acted as an apologist for the authoritarian practices in the European country. 

It is not coincidental that mere days after Vice President JD Vance went into the Munich Security Conference and denounced European censorship regimes, CBS’s 60 Minutes would air a report extolling the virtues of German censorship. The report filed by correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi makes sure to highlight prosecutors who go after memeposters as defenders of civility.

Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech at a security conference in Munich touched on the many ways Europe has become more authoritarian and elitist, from annulling elections in Romania, to throwing people in jail for online wrong-think, to outlawing silent prayer vigils in Scotland. Yet the New York Times treated the speech with utter contempt, ignoring Vance’s call for freedom while…

CBS’s Margaret Brennan continues on a tour-de-force of galaxy brained takes that ultimately cause her to get smacked down by her conservative interlocutor. The latest such instance involves her assertion that the Holocaust was caused by (weaponized) free speech, which was promptly and thoroughly rebuffed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.