Jane Fonda is relaunching her father's "Committee for the First Amendment," proclaiming Trump is engaged in a "coordinated campaign to silence critics." We're still reckoning with the dramatic Biden Administration pressure campaign to silence and deplatform critics across Big Tech platforms.
But the pro-Biden media routinely ignore leftist censorship against conservative "misinformation." They skipped coverage of Google's letter admitting the Biden administration censorship pressure, as they ignored the Twitter Files and so on.
I'm joined on this episode by Michael Morris, director of MRC's Free Speech America and Luis Cornelio, associate editor at FSA.
Apple and Microsoft joined Google on Wednesday in ignoring right-leaning news about the government shutdown. They failed to include right-leaning news sources on Wednesday and instead propped up the leftist media and their blame-Republicans narrative, sharing articles shared articles from leftist sources like ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Reuters, The Associated Press, Axios, and the socialist British newspaper The Guardian.
This annoying habit of suggesting only liberal sources are relialbe sources is still happening on Elon Musk's X. Luis reported that although visibility scores are important, X accounts must also surpass a certain “reputation” metric threshold to be considered by the algorithm to begin with. If an account has a reputation score below 65, it effectively faces automatic censorship.
Last year’s numbers were shocking: 100 percent of left-leaning media sources exceeded the 65 threshold. In contrast, 75 percent of right-leaning media outlets fell short, suggesting they were censored. In 2025, censorship on the X platform has drastically decreased, with right-leaning media sources averaging 69 percent for reputation, and with just 29 percent of right-leaning media outlets below the 65-reputation-score threshold. But eight right-leaning media sources fell below that mark. The specific media outlets that registered scores lower than 65 include: The Epoch Times, The American Spectator, The Blaze, New York Post's Opinion section, OANN, and The Post Millennial, each scoring 60.
Wikipedia founder Larry Sanger just told Tucker Carlson that Wikipedia is censoring right-wing media sources. MRC Free Speech America exposed this wildly biased list in February 2025, calling out the propaganda website’s editors for labelling mainstream right-of-center media sources like The Daily Wire and the New York Post, among others, as “blacklisted,” “deprecated,” or “generally unreliable,” while greenlighting leftist legacy media sources like MSNBC, Mother Jones, The New York Times, and CNN. MRC research showed how 100 percent of right-of-center media sources, as determined by AllSides Media Bias Chart, were effectively blacklisted.
Finally, we discussed FSA head honcho Dan Schneider's op-ed this week in the New York Post: "Google’s sly censorship ‘confession’ is no big win for free speech." Schneider's points were quite clear: "Google admitted no wrongdoing, Google volunteered nothing, Google clarified nothing, Google pledged nothing, Google changed nothing, Google said nothing."
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