Conservative Leaders Reject Facebook’s ‘Insulting’ Response to Bias Concerns

August 22nd, 2019 2:33 PM

On Thursday, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell and more than 20 conservative leaders released a statement rejecting Facebook’s “insulting” response to specific examples of bias. They declared, “No conservative leader or organization should accept this as a legitimate response to the undeniable issues we have raised.” 

Many of those signing the statement belong to the Free Speech Alliance, a group of nearly 60 organizations, led by the Media Research Center (MRC), dedicated to combating the censorship of conservatives online.  

The statement and list of signatories is below: 

Former Sen. Jon Kyl’s audit investigating Facebook’s anti-conservative bias is not only disappointing, it completely fails to address the many concerns and specific examples of bias raised by the conservative movement. Kyl spent more than a year hearing the concerns of reportedly 130 conservative groups, and in turn, shockingly left us with a hollow report devoid of substantive policy proposals. This audit is exactly the opposite of what conservatives were hoping for.
 
Facebook has listened to the conservative movement’s complaints and in response has invited us to pound sand. It’s insulting but unsurprising. Unfortunately, this is how Facebook routinely responds to criticism.

No conservative leader or organization should accept this as a legitimate response to the undeniable issues we have raised. This is purely another superficial attempt by Facebook to placate conservatives with empty promises.

 

L. Brent Bozell

Founder and President

Media Research Center


Christie-Lee McNally

Founder 

Free Our Internet & Raven Strategies


Elaine Donnelly

Founder and President

Center for Military Readiness


Justin Danhof

General Counsel

National Center for Public Policy Research


Sandy Rios

Governmental Affairs Director

American Family Radio


Amy Kremer

Co-Chair

Women for Trump


Charlie Copeland

President

Intercollegiate Studies Institute


Frank Lasée

President

The Heartland Institute


Tim Wildmon

President

American Family Association


William A. Donohue, Ph.D.

President

Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights


Lewis K. Uhler

Founder and President

National Tax Limitation Committee


Joseph R. Gregory

Owner

Gregory Management Company, LLC


C. Preston Noell III

President

Tradition, Family, Property. Inc.


David Kupelian

Vice President and Managing Editor

WND


Richard A. Viguerie

Chairman

ConservativeHQ.com


Rod Martin

Founder and CEO

The Martin Organization


Austin Ruse

President

Center for Family and Human Rights


Allen West

Senior Fellow

Media Research Center


Lady Brigitte Gabriel

Founder and Chairman

Act for America


Everett Piper, PhD.

Former President, Author and Columnist

Oklahoma Wesleyan University


Floyd Brown

Publisher

The Western Journal


The Honorable Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D.

Member of Congress, 2011-2017

1st District of Kansas


R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. 

Founder & Editor-in-Chief

The American Spectator

 

Randy Long

CEO

Long Business Advisors, LLC.

 

Jenny Beth Martin

Honorary Chairman 

Tea Party Patriots Action

 

Gene Mills

President

Louisiana Family Forum

 

The Honorable George K. Rasley Jr.

Managing Editor

ConservativeHQ.com