Free Speech

In an article last February headlined “Do Facebook, Twitter and YouTube censor conservatives? Claims 'not supported by the facts,' new research says,” USA Today's Jessica Guynn wrote, “Despite repeated charges of anti-conservative bias from former President Donald Trump and other GOP critics, Facebook, Twitter and Google's YouTube are not slanted against right-leaning users, a new…

Leftists are calling for platforms to ban famous podcast host Joe Rogan and political and social commentator Jordan Peterson to prevent the spread of so-called “misinformation.”

Microsoft Office’s “woke” spellcheck program is getting new attention after its creation in 2020.

Dr. Ron Paul said that he has been suspended from Facebook for 90 days. Paul is a former congressman from Texas. The offending post was about the efficacy of the Pfizer vaccine and comments from the CEO of the company.

YouTube has suspended Fox News host Dan Bongino for content that contained alleged “misinformation” about COVID-19.

The January 6 House Select Committee made a dangerous attack against free speech online. It issued subpoenas to four major Big Tech companies — in the name of stopping “extremism.”

Big Tech has used a worldwide pandemic to usher in a new plague of censorship, but has allowed the World Health Organization’s (WHO) infamous misinformation to remain online unfiltered. 

Ethics watchdog and shareholder for Google’s parent corporation Alphabet, The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) demanded Google cough up its records of banning content on behalf of the Biden administration.

Hundreds of doctors called on Spotify to target Joe Rogan’s podcast because of alleged Covid-19 "misinformation."

President Joe Biden called for social media companies to censor American citizens online during a speech Jan. 13, amidst a presidency marked by censorship and government crackdowns. Biden made a “special appeal to social media companies and media outlets” calling on them to “please deal with the misinformation and disinformation that's on your shows” in his address.

Twitter was criticized after it allowed a purported Iranian government account to threaten former President Trump with death.

Twitter censored Project Veritas Chief of Staff Eric Spracklen for alleged “ban evasion” just after Spracklen posted the outlet’s bombshell report claiming evidence that Dr. Anthony Fauci spoke falsely under oath.

Former President Donald Trump reportedly slammed Twitter for rigging the electoral process, but nonetheless is fighting to regain access to the platform.

It’s Episode Twenty of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how Big Tech thinks they know better than licensed professionals when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines.