Pelosi or Johnson? Google Fails to Hide PBS’s Favoritism

June 4th, 2025 12:37 PM

Even Google couldn’t mask  PBS's bias when comparing how the outlet treated former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

MRC researchers asked Google’s AI chatbot Gemini on Monday, “Does PBS coverage favor Nancy Pelosi or Mike Johnson?” The chatbot tried to hedge its answer, citing PBS’s purported “commitment to journalistic integrity.” But ultimately, when…

Free Speech Under Threat in Texas with Latest Alleged Safety Effort

June 3rd, 2025 5:46 PM

A Texas bill that threatened free speech has failed to move ahead in the state legislature.

Google, Wikipedia Run Cover for THIS NPR Reporting Failure

June 2nd, 2025 10:59 AM

Did Google just use leftist Wikipedia to cover for news outlets that are due for a reckoning?

MRC researchers asked Google Search on Thursday whether NPR and PBS hid the Hunter Biden laptop story. At the top of the two searches, Google’s artificial intelligence weighed in with an emphatic no, citing none other than…

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Conservatives Rally in Budapest for Free Speech, Slam Biden Censorship

May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM

BUDAPEST, Hungary – On Wednesday morning, the group EU-U.S. Forum held its spring conference and – with former Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller alongside – took aim at the rise of government censorship both in the United States and the European Union, an issue that’s also central to our mission here at the Media Research Center.

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Google's Gemini Smears Memorial Day as ‘Controversial'

May 23rd, 2025 10:38 AM

Memorial Day may mean different things to Americans. A solemn day to honor fallen soldiers? Naturally. The unofficial start of summer? Why not. A racist holiday steeped in controversy? Bingo—at least if you ask Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini.

Google Boosts Pro-Trans, Leftist Group in Trans Surgery Search

May 21st, 2025 9:59 AM

Google Search is spotlighting leftist organizations in a query asking whether gender transition surgery is an emergency medical service. 

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MRC Challenges Woke AI on Pope, Responses Didn’t Disappoint

May 14th, 2025 1:56 PM

What characteristics and priorities should the newly elected pope have? Opinions both in and outside the Catholic Church abound, but the bias and warped priorities programmed into artificial intelligence on this topic may leave even the most avid chatbot fan surprised.

Grenell RIPS Anti-Free Speech HRC’s Whole Rating System: ‘Total Scam'

May 13th, 2025 4:42 PM

MRC Free Speech America made a disturbing find on the website of a radical anti-free speech group. 

Mea Culpa? Big Tech Censors Shamed by Abortion Pill Study

May 1st, 2025 4:02 PM

Pro-lifers have been warning the public that the abortion pill hurts women for years. Here’s why Big Tech and its fact-checkers have much to answer for. 

Fox in Henhouse? GOP Chairwoman Partners with Google, Receives Praise

April 30th, 2025 12:32 PM

A Punchbowl News “fireside chat” with a key Big Tech executive turned out to be an effective commercial for the most biased titan in the industry: Google. 

Google AI’s Bias Couldn’t Be More Clear in Answers on NPR, PBS

April 3rd, 2025 11:01 AM

Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini, displays bias when addressing whether NPR and PBS are biased or should be defunded. Gemini's responses frequently referenced NPR, PBS, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting themselves, neglecting alternative viewpoints like those of the Media Research Center, which has produced countless reports on the bias at NPR and PBS  over the last 30+ years.

STUDY: AI Chatbots Provide Awful Responses Before Pro-Life Events

April 2nd, 2025 10:55 AM

OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman once warned that artificial intelligence “may cause significant harm to the world.” His chatbot is already harming babies, mothers and pro-life volunteer organizations by directing them to the baby-killing organization Planned…

Trump FTC Chair Takes Fresh New Angle for Agency’s Role on Free Speech

March 25th, 2025 5:14 PM

The Federal Trade Commission under President Donald Trump will not tolerate pro-censorship Big Tech monopolies, according to the agency’s new chairman Andrew Ferguson.

Does YouTube Marginalize ‘Family-Friendly,’ ‘Faith-Based’ Content?

March 11th, 2025 1:17 PM

YouTube has demonstrated a strong socially leftist animus for years. FCC Chair Brendan Carr wants to get to the bottom of it.