Free Speech

Even academic credentials might not protect users from censorship. University of Canterbury Professor Anne-Marie Brady was reportedly censored after criticizing the Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The Media Research Center (MRC) is proud to announce the addition of our new partner to the Free Speech Alliance, Fundación Disenso. Disenso is a strong voice for freedom of speech in Spain. Operating as a think tank of Spain's third political force, VOX, Disenso dedicates itself to the analysis and study of the prevailing culture war.

One America News Network launched its own social media platform on July 4.

Facebook has censored search results displaying a #revolution hashtag.

YouTube has suspended Right Side Broadcasting Network and removed the news site’s videos of former President Donald Trump’s rallies. YouTube took down the videos because the footage allegedly violated the platform’s Community Guidelines, according to RSBN.

Facebook is getting bashed for sending notifications to users who it deemed as having been exposed to "extremist content" that may be considered too right wing. Users across the internet torched Facebook for sending them pop-up warnings that they had been exposed to so-called “extremist” content. RedState editor Kira Davis tweeted July 1: "Hey has anyone had this message pop up on their FB? My…

Former Trump advisor Jason Miller will launch a new social media platform designed to “declare independence” from Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. “GETTR,” which Miller says evolved from “getting together,” will launch on July 4. However, the platform’s app is already in the App Stores.

The Facebook Oversight Board is once again changing how it operates. The pseudo-regulatory body has decided to take up a case entailing not only the removal, but also the reinstatement, of a pro-Hamas post originating from the verified page of state-controlled media outlet Al Jazeera. Hamas has been on the official State Department list of “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” since the Bill…

A prominent conservative has finally launched a payment processor so Americans won’t have to worry about PayPal or other woke corporations blacklisting them.

A federal judge blocked Florida’s new free speech law from going into effect at the eleventh hour. U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle granted a preliminary injunction that blocked Florida’s Big Tech law on June 30, only one day before it was supposed to go into effect. The law was intended to fine platforms who censored political candidates. The preliminary injunction only blocks the law from…

Liberals jumped the gun on COVID censorship, and former President Donald Trump let them know it in his appearance on "The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.” Trump wasn’t shy about taking a victory lap responding to liberals who initially scorned his theory that COVID-19 emerged from a lab in Wuhan: “Now, they're all saying that I was right."

In a second major legal win for Facebook this week, a federal judge dismissed another lawsuit that would have held Facebook accountable for censoring content it disagreed with.

Conservative lawmakers appeared ready and willing for a fight to protect free speech from Big Tech’s tyrannical grip at an event hosted to feature solutions. The Ethics & Public Policy Center held a Big Tech Symposium that allowed politicians, experts and attorneys to discuss issues like Section 230 and antitrust, along with possible solutions. Several lawmakers, including Senators Josh…

Journalist and New York Times bestselling author Andy Ngo is famous for putting himself at risk reporting on the front lines of America’s culture war. Now one of the internet’s most popular platforms for listening to music and podcasts has allegedly purged his content.