Censorship Project

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.

Big Tech companies have evolved their censorship tactics, moving from direct actions to more subtle methods like shadowbanning and search suppression. This shift has led to a significant "secondhand censorship effect," impacting millions of users by restricting access to content they choose to follow. While platforms like X and Meta show some transparency via features like Community Notes,…

Google-owned YouTube is still finding new ways to interfere in the 2024 presidential election, suppressing a three-hour Rogan interview of Trump.

Looking for the number of George Soros-funded prosecutors? The Media Research Center has the receipts, but if you look to artificial intelligence to find the answer, don’t think it will direct you to a media outlet that will give you the results you’re looking for.

The Media Research Center (MRC) has launched a new website for its Free Speech America division, centralizing efforts to combat Big Tech censorship and protect free speech. The site features MRC's CensorTrack database, which has documented over 7,000 cases of censorship by platforms like Google and Facebook. The MRC Free Speech America division also publishes studies and reports exposing the…

Google is still at it. Just two days before the widely anticipated presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the tech giant buried Trump’s campaign website in its search results. But Biden’s appears at the very top for voters looking for information about him.

Bipartisan members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee met today on a new bill concerning Big Tech’s liability shield, but will the latest bill actually accomplish anything?

Facebook has interfered in U.S. elections multiple times since 2008. The platform has been involved in incidents of political censorship and policy changes that detract from free speech, despite CEO Mark Zuckerberg's affirmations to support it. MRC researchers have documented 39 instances where Facebook intervened in electoral processes, from removing political posts and ads to limiting users…

On Sunday's MediaBuzz show on the Fox News Channel, host Howard Kurtz brought on ex-NPR reporter Juan Williams to recall his own in-house experience with the radical left inside NPR. Kurtz also noted most of the "mainstream" media have skipped any mention of the hubbub over NPR senior editor Uri Berliner's expose. 

Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) blasted a university-affiliated censorship AI project funded by the National Science Foundation for the purpose of silencing free speech.

MRC's censorship investigators have published a two-part report on how the Department of Homeland Security used a "Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention" program to malign conservative information as "misinformation" and worse. MRC vice president for Free Speech America Dan Schneider explains just how deep this censorship effort goes.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the United States State Department for conspiring to silence conservative media publications.

New files reviewed by independent journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger reveal that data scientists and defense and intelligence veterans allegedly conspired to censor Americans via an “‘anti-disinformation’” group called the Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTIL).

The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is rallying behind The Babylon Bee amidst its battle in court against government-mandated censorship.