Censorship

There's no doubt that Big Tech has done its part to eliminate speech that harms the Democratic Party, the Biden administration or otherwise runs counter to the left's narrative. Social media platforms have aggressively silenced and gaslit the American people, but as MRC has documented, Big Tech has overplayed its hand.

Communist Chinese government-tied TikTok proudly announced its extensive censorship in partnership with a leftist billionaire-tied entity during the ongoing Hamas-Israel war.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) refused to back down after YouTube censored a video of him calling the vicious Hamas terrorists who attacked Israel “savages.” YouTube later claimed to MRC Free Speech America that it made a “mistake.”

YouTube, infamously known for its quick censorship of speech critical of the left, inexplicably dragged its feet to take down a sickening video from Hamas terrorist leaders calling for Islamists to rise up against Israel. It did so only after MRC Free Speech America pressed the company over its policies. 

On the newest episode of tax-supported PBS’s notorious left-wing series Frontline, they spent two hours obsessing over Elon Musk's Twitter takeover. Twitter was never this problematic when it was suppressing conservative speech. Now they're forwarding former Twitter censor Yoel Roth's ridiculous denials of the platform's ideological bias before Musk.

Actor Nate Buzolic told Fox News that Instagram and TikTok censored him for posting about Hamas atrocities in Israel and Gaza.

A European Union (EU) Commission official has taken a page from the U.S. government’s anti-free speech playbook and demanded that multiple social media companies step up their censorship.

YouTube sat idle as Al Jazeera allowed to air Hamas brutes actively recruiting Muslims across the Middle East to attack Israel.

If the fact-checking industry is going to insist that it should be able to throttle social media posts, at the very least, it should fact-check the claims the post is actually making and not straw men because Instagram posts have been deemed misinformation after PolitiFact and the USA Today accused the posters of attributing a 2020 “Death to America” chant in the Iranian parliament to…

MRC Vice President Dan Schneider raised the alarm about Google’s ongoing election interference ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi slammed online censorship during an appearance on Fox News.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) did not mince his words against the leftist Silicon Valley giants and the onslaught of free speech in response to the Supreme Court agreeing to hear a case involving a 2021 Florida anti-censorship law.

“Lenny Bruce would be impossible today.” So says Svetlana Mintcheva, the director of programs at the National Coalition Against Censorship. Mintcheva shares that observation in a compelling new docu-short called “Crossing the Line in Comedy.”

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey took a victory lap after an appellate court rebuked a Biden-led agency’s apparent role in violating the First Amendment. Bailey eviscerated the deep state censors on Fox News’s Ingraham Angle on Wednesday when he talked about his most recent win – the newly amended injunction in the Missouri v. Biden case.