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MRC’s Gainor on Tucker: ‘How Far Big Tech Will Go’ to Defend Biden
Media Research Center Vice President of Free Speech America & Business Dan Gainor teased a soon-to-be-published MRC study proving Big Tech’s obsession with protecting President Joe Biden. Big Tech’s response was to censor people who criticized Biden.

17,000 Reasons WashPost Hopes Musk ‘Doesn’t Win His Bid for Twitter’
The leftist newspaper owned by the second richest man in the world is obsessed with smearing his main competitor’s $43 billion Twitter takeover bid. It was willing to spend over 17,000 words to do it.

STUDY: How Big Tech Tried to Kill the Hunter Biden Story
Twitter and Facebook worked in lockstep to restrict the flow of the Hunter Biden laptop story just before the 2020 presidential election. These platforms stifled the spread of that story at the same time that Big Media did, as MRC research found.

Biden-Loving PolitiFact Scours Conservative Sites on 'Bird Poop' Story
Even the silliest content about President Biden can be grounds for punishing conservative sites. Take the erroneous "Biden had bird poop on him" story. The president gave a speech in Iowa on corn-enhanced gas helping reduce the price at the pump. PolitiFact didn't offer a "fact check" on anything Biden said about the "Putin price hike," but it did trash conservative sites. It was "FALSE" to…

Column: Elon Musk's Takeover of Twitter Could Totally Remake Politics
It was the stock buyout heard ‘round the world. Tesla owner Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter could save the whole concept of online free speech and alter politics and elections globally for years to come.

Truly Foolish: Top 5 Most Ridiculous Cases of Big Tech Censorship
Big Tech censors: We know what we’re doing. Their algorithms: April Fools! It’s a tall task for Big Tech companies to justify mashing the censorship button on conservative speech when the systems they use to do their dirty work are so stupid that they always come back to kick them in the pants.

Climate Critics RIP Tom Friedman for Griping Over U.S. ‘Oil Addiction’
New York Times columnist Tom Friedman has a hot take about the Ukraine War, and of course, it involved trying to freak people out about climate change.

Help Pick the MRC Bulldog Awards for the Best in Journalism
The Media Research Center has had fun bestowing our DisHonors Awards on those members of the media least deserving of accolades. Now, we want to recognize those most deserving of accolades and we’re looking for the guidance of NewsBusters readers to help us select the deserving winners of the Media Research Center’s Bulldog Awards for the best in journalism.

YIKES: CensorTrack Logs 3,500 Censorship Cases by Big Tech
MRC Free Speech America’s CensorTrack database reached an important milestone as it continues to monitor the war Big Tech companies have waged on free speech online.

Digital Brownshirts Demand Big Tech Censor So-Called Climate ‘Denial’
The leftist U.K.-based Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) is back attacking the Media Research Center and complaining that Facebook isn’t doing enough to silence those who question the left’s eco-extremist take on climate change. Liberal media outlets are boosting the foreign CCDH’s activism just as the White House was reportedly set to hold its first event tackling “climate change…

STUDY: Over 800 Cases of Big Tech Censoring COVID-19 Debate
Big Tech speech restrictions turned COVID-19 into the most pro-censorship environment in the U.S. at least since World War II. Media Research Center has found more than 800 examples of bans, deleted content, and other speech restrictions related to the virus, as well as to resultant vaccines masking and government policies.

NewsGuard Offers Lame Rebuttal to MRC Study Exposing Left-Wing Bias
The leftist ratings firm NewsGuard criticized a Media Research Center study of the site’s ratings, calling it “fundamentally flawed.”

Levin Calls MRC Study Exposing Soros ‘A Great Service’ to ‘The Nation’
Conservative radio host Mark Levin praised a “fantastic” MRC Business study that revealed liberal billionaire George Soros’ massive spending on a new global university network. Media Research Center President Brent Bozell joined Levin on his radio show to dig into the details.