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2022 was quite the year for free speech. Before we officially enter the new year, let’s take a look back at the top seven best – and worst – free speech moments of 2022. This is not intended to serve as a ranked list, but to highlight the seven most prominent stories highlighting Big Tech censorship throughout the year.

Former CNN reporter Maria Ressa was awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for her “efforts to safeguard freedom of expression.” On Wednesday, she traveled over to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to claim that freedom of speech on social media is responsible for the raise in authoritarianism around the world.

The U.S. midterm elections are less than two weeks away. Meta Global Affairs President Nick Clegg appears to be working overtime trying to pacify critics of the company’s biased content moderation policies.

A reckoning seems to have come for Meta after CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent admission that the FBI pressured Facebook to censor in the leadup to the 2020 election. Meta ultimately censored the Hunter Biden laptop story following pressure from the FBI.

The U.S. midterm elections are just around the corner and the legacy media have donned their activist hats. The liberal media have been calling on social media platforms to more actively combat so-called “misinformation” online.

Liberal billionaire George Soros funded groups that are now urging the heads of major Big Tech platforms to step up their censorship just before the 2022 midterm elections.

Legacy media, Big Tech and government agencies are trying to control the election narrative – again.

At least two executives at Meta (parent company of Facebook) were accused of participating in a bribery scheme to help elevate the reach of OnlyFans, a company notorious for porn.

A conservative legal group is suing the FBI for concealing federal documents pertaining to alleged government collusion with Big Tech to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Social media influencer An0maly has had it with the leftist social media fact-checkers and decided it was about time to put their ‘evil’ operations on blast in a new documentary.

Two liberal rags pooh-poohed a letter sent Thursday by House Republicans to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that seeks more information from Facebook about its communication with the federal government that led to censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Collusion between government and Big Tech goes deeper than Joe Biden’s incompetence. The FBI reportedly responded to the revelation it pressured Facebook to censor during the 2020 election by saying that the agency “routinely” works with social media companies to target “potential threat information.”

The Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg-backed Summit Learning platform suggested to educators that they listen in on parents’ “online conversations.”

The New York Times is whining that Big Tech won’t be focused on eliminating “election misinformation” during the 2022 midterms.