Marco Rubio Promises Crackdown on Anti-Free Speech Authoritarians

May 28th, 2025 4:58 PM

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a big move against foreigners who trample the rights of Americans. 

Firebrand Ohio Senator LIGHTS UP Google for Censoring Senate Testimony

May 28th, 2025 12:58 PM

A freshman Ohio senator has lambasted Google’s YouTube for censoring critical information on the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a May 21 Homeland Security Governmental Affairs Committee …

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Conservatives Rally in Budapest for Free Speech, Slam Biden Censorship

May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM

BUDAPEST, Hungary – On Wednesday morning, the group EU-U.S. Forum held its spring conference and – with former Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller alongside – took aim at the rise of government censorship both in the United States and the European Union, an issue that’s also central to our mission here at the Media Research Center.

FDA Chief Exposes Biden’s Pandemic Medical Censorship

May 27th, 2025 4:28 PM

The Trump-appointed commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration exposed the Biden administration on Fox News for seeking to censor potentially damning information about vaccines.

EU Lawmaker Calls Out ‘Obvious Tool for Control and Intimidation’

May 23rd, 2025 1:28 PM

Free speech advocates directly confronted the European Parliament (EP) and pushed the pro-censorship body to make a massive course correction.

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Google's Gemini Smears Memorial Day as ‘Controversial'

May 23rd, 2025 10:38 AM

Memorial Day may mean different things to Americans. A solemn day to honor fallen soldiers? Naturally. The unofficial start of summer? Why not. A racist holiday steeped in controversy? Bingo—at least if you ask Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini.

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Rogan, Rodgers Cite MRC Study Finding 96% Negative Coverage for Musk

May 22nd, 2025 1:38 AM

On the most recent episode of the world’s most popular podcast, a moment made possible by the Media Research Center: Joe Rogan and Aaron Rodgers discuss the negative coverage drawn by the DOGEfather, Tesla/SpaceX founder Elon Musk.

 

MRC VP Schneider Denounces ‘Greatest Weapon’ for Censorship

May 21st, 2025 4:30 PM

MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider and other free speech advocates exposed the insidious impact of a vague European censorship law from the capital of the European Union.

Big Tech CEO Says France Pressed Him to Interfere in Romanian Election

May 20th, 2025 1:56 PM

The creator of a social media platform with a billion monthly active users warned that the same country prosecuting him for speech on his platform pressured him to interfere in a European election. 

Censorious NY Times Frets Over Trump's 'Misinformation Research Cuts

May 17th, 2025 6:15 PM

New York Times reporter Steven Lee Myers, who covers “misinformation and disinformation” and is a social media censorship supporter and First Amendment non-fan, is back with a story posted on Thursday, relaying the sad news that the Trump administration against self-styled invariably leftist misinformation “experts” – i.e. social media censors: “Trump Administration Cancels Scores of…

WATCH: Vance Makes Free Speech Prediction in Latest EU Rebuke

May 16th, 2025 4:35 PM

Vice President JD Vance warned radio and podcast host Glenn Beck that Americans should be concerned about anti-free speech moves abroad, predicting significant “friction” between America and other nations.

Jordan Issues Warning to EU Country Threatening US Free Speech

May 15th, 2025 1:00 PM

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) is looking to protect speech both domestically and abroad.

NPR Host Admits Show Censored Coverage of Common Sense COVID Proposal

May 15th, 2025 9:43 AM

Well, here’s a surprise: NPR’s “On Point” podcast, hosted by Meghna Chakrabarti and transmitting out of NPR member station WBUR in Boston, featured, on its May 5 show, an interview with author David Zweig highly critical of the hysterical and harmful reaction by the liberal “public health” establishment to the COVID pandemic. What's more, Chakrabarti herself revealed that an NPR higher-up cut…

Bhattacharya on Free Speech: ‘Essential for Scientific Progress’

May 14th, 2025 4:25 PM

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), stressed that medical and scientific advancement is made possible by the protection of free speech.