Censorship

Facebook and Twitter are doing nothing to curb flagrant disinformation spouted by President Joe Biden. During his press conference Wednesday, Biden falsely claimed conservatives are already manipulating the 2022 midterm elections.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday that Big Tech censorship is the “single greatest threat” to “free speech” and “fair elections” in America. Cruz also called for legislation specifically targeting Big Tech’s biased censorship.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer decides what bills come up for a Senate vote. But with Schumer’s daughters employed by Facebook and Amazon, antitrust legislation may go the way of President Joe Biden’s popularity: down into oblivion.

It’s Episode Twenty-One of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how Big Tech silenced Fox News host Dan Bongino for voicing his thoughts.

The new Tech Oversight Project reportedly aims to pressure lawmakers to pass competition regulation for tech companies. The project is funded by liberal billionaire Pierre Omidyar and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, however, and headed by a “veteran of Democratic politics,” Sacha Haworth.

An international network of so-called “fact-checking” organizations funded by massive liberal organizations called on YouTube to censor more content the network disagrees with.

CNN’s Reliable Sources anchor Brian Stelter slobbered over the leftist website ratings firm NewsGuard as some sort of paragon of journalistic virtue. Stelter fawned in a Jan. 16 blog how NewsGuard announced that its business was “reliable enough to turn a profit.” But here was the senseless part: “Although there are many quibbles with specific rulings about certain sites, the results…

Twitter has reportedly permanently suspended an account linked to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei following an apparent death threat against former President Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a rare enforcement of rules against the terrorist state leader.

A meteorologist known for smacking down the sensationalism of eco-fanatics said his website was demonetized by censorship giant Google. University of Alabama, Huntsville Principal Research Scientist Dr. Roy Spencer posted a blog on his website Jan. 7 saying that he had been demonetized for “unreliable and harmful claims.”

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…

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.”

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.

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.

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.