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.

The U.S. House of Representatives is the latest government entity to take aim at TikTok, banning the popular Chinese social media app from House-issued mobile phones.

While airing out Twitter’s dirty anti-free-speech laundry, new platform CEO Elon Musk exposed Big Tech for its routine collusion with the federal government as it attempts to censor Americans.

Monday's drop of the Twitter Files revealed that both the Trump and Biden administrations pressured social media platforms to censor certain content related to COVID-19.

Saturday's Twitter Files drop showed that the CIA joined the FBI in meddling in censorship decisions on the platform.

Big Tech continued to silence and restrict American free speech in 2022 but Media Research Center heavily tracked its censorship spree throughout the year. 

The FBI finally issued an official statement on revelations of its work with Big Tech to censor Americans in the Twitter Files. The explanation? The people reporting on the files are “conspiracy theorists.”

Speakers from media, politics, and business alike slammed Big Tech censorship and corporate wokeness at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest this week.

Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec called out the damage wreaked by Big Tech censorship in a speech Tuesday at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest. 

“We are going to take this satanic machine that you have built to try to control our reality and we are going to burn it to the ground,” he said.

Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk responded to his recent viral poll, announcing Tuesday evening that once he finds a replacement, he will step down as CEO of Twitter. 

The latest dump of Twitter Files Tuesday revealed that the Pentagon used Twitter to influence public opinion about foreign policy.

The FBI attempted to dodge the legal process and “get Twitter to share data outside of the normal search warrant process,” according to independent journalist Michael Shellenberger, who broke the Twitter Files Part 7 story Monday. 

The newest batch of Twitter Files shows that the FBI appears to have intentionally “primed” Twitter executives to censor the New York Post Hunter Biden laptop story after a months-long witch hunt for foreign disinformation on the platform.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced a ban on TikTok for state devices Friday.