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Notable conservatives tore into Facebook after a report from WIRED emerged that alleged the platform has allowed child exploitation groups to flourish. “While Facebook is busy cracking down on conservative opinions they disagree with, child exploitation persists on its platforms,” Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) said in exclusive comments to MRC Free Speech America. 

A new bill introduced by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) could drive censorship online. Klobuchar said the NUDGE Act would help address so-called “misinformation.”

The New York Times pinned responsibility for “containing inflation” on the U.S. Federal Reserve, despite President Joe Biden’s vague promises during the State of the Union Address to “fight inflation” and “build a better America.” It seems that even the liberal media doesn’t trust Biden to enact policies that could help lower inflation anymore.

Twitter locked Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s (R-MO) personal Twitter account for a tweet denouncing transgender athletes’ participation in women’s sports. Hartzler tweeted: “Women’s Sports are for Women, not men pretending to be women,” according to a screenshot tweeted by her campaign manager Michael Haufner.

In the latest censorship effort to demonize self-defense tools, five Democratic Party senators are pressuring YouTube to remove “ghost gun” videos.

A new bipartisan Senate bill reportedly aims to give parents more control over the time that their children spend online, but Congress may face a whole new world of safety and privacy concerns with the new metaverse.

Free speech advocates cautioned about giving the government and university researchers exclusive authority over social media data as lawmakers expect to soon consider a proposal to force new information disclosures from Big Tech.

It’s Episode 25 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we’re talking about a study that MRC’s Free Speech America team recently conducted. Results showed that from March 2020 to Feb. 2022, Big Tech censored more than 808 COVID-19-related posts.

On Wednesday both ABC World News Tonight and CBS Evening News ignored a report that Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has finally been dragged kicking and screaming to support a ban on stock trading by members of Congress. After ignoring the story for four weeks, NBC Nightly News was the only one of the three broadcast networks to cover this story.  

Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) torched the news media for being a “source of misinformation” as senators discussed a proposal to allow news outlets to coordinate ad negotiations with Big Tech. MRC Vice President of Free Speech America and Business Dan Gainor also slammed the proposed law during the congressional hearing on the future of journalism.

With the news Wednesday that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will be retiring at the end of the current court term, the liberal evening news broadcasts were clearly excited by the news that President Joe Biden will have the opportunity to nominate someone to the high court. While hyperventilating over the news that Biden is expected to nominate an African American woman to the bench, the…

The art of deconstructing an argument by refutation and holding a person accountable for previous statements that the person now contradicts was once an honored tradition. It has now mostly gone the way of other traditions in favor of sound bite statements formulated in political party meetings and used to confuse the public. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) unpacked this once…

On Tuesday, Axios Media Reporter Sara Fischer reported: “Republican leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee have sent a letter to NBC Universal executives voicing concerns about ‘the extent of influence the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) may have over NBCUniversal’s coverage of the games.’”

MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle and Harvard Institute of Politics Polling Director John Della Volpe were optimistic on Monday that Gen Z will save America from the horribleness that is Republicans and their "voter suppression" efforts and that they actually care about other people, unlike other generations.