Democrats recently released plans to fight “Online Misinformation” that featured a blueprint for online censorship. Congressional Democrats, however, have sponsored or co-sponsored at least 18 Big Tech bills with Republicans. That combination raises huge questions about their actual goals and could undermine bipartisan support.

Conservative lawmakers were optimistic about billionaire Elon Musk’s offer to purchase Twitter for $43 billion. The legislators slammed Twitter’s censorship in exclusive comments to MRC Free Speech America.

Talk show host Bill Maher and podcast legend Joe Rogan slammed the alliance of Big Tech and Cancel Culture for silencing debate about COVID-19.

It was the stock buyout heard ‘round the world. Tesla owner Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter could save the whole concept of online free speech and alter politics and elections globally for years to come. 

Twitter suspended a popular account that exposed radical liberals on TikTok. Seth Dillion, CEO of The Babylon Bee, reported that Libs of TikTok was suspended for violating Twitter’s rules against “hateful conduct.”

Rumble doubled down on its decision to allow RT to post on the platform. According to the Washington Examiner, YouTube previously banned RT at the beginning of March, when the Russian-owned news organization had over 4.5 million followers.

It’s Episode 33 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we’re talking about how the professional networking site LinkedIn censored an Air Force veteran’s testimony of hard work and perseverance.

Clinton stooge Robert Reich seemed to forget the meaning of the word “contradiction” while attacking the world’s richest man’s libertarian views on the internet. The former Secretary of Labor scaremongered to his readers how Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s “vision for the internet is dangerous nonsense.”

“I am close to a First Amendment absolutist,” former president Barack Obama said, even as he called misinformation potentially “fatal” and suggested “modifications” to online anonymity. The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg interviewed Obama at his left-wing mag's “Disinformation and Erosion of Democracy” conference. Obama more than once used seemingly pro-free-speech language…

In a major reversal, Elon Musk rejected a seat on Twitter’s board of directors. The move caused some people to theorize that Musk may have a completely different strategy for reforming the company, one that doesn’t involve the company’s board.

A Big Tech social media platform allegedly censored an Air Force veteran for her posts on student loan debt. Gretchen Smith is an Air Force veteran and founded Code of Vets, a non-profit she created to honor her father who died at 57 after struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder. Smith shared her inspiring story on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Juanita Broaddrick was suspended from Twitter after she questioned the effectiveness of the vaccines for COVID-19. Broaddrick accused former President Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978.

In an op-ed published online Friday in The Washington Post, former Reddit CEO Ellen K. Pao slammed Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s investment in Twitter and, to put it mildly, his support and vision for free speech. Put simply, she called for Democracy Dying in Darkness.

A podcast host for The New York Times insisted that Twitter doesn’t censor people. "They have content moderation." Kara Swisher, who hosts the publication’s “Sway” podcast, was a guest on MSNBC’s Morning Joe where she discussed content moderation.