Conservatives Urge Fairer Social Media Policies

May 1st, 2018 3:55 PM

MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell, MRC Censorship Project Director Allen West, and 61 prominent conservative leaders issued the following joint statement on Tuesday urging leading social media companies to adopt four key principles in order to ensure that conservatives receive equal treatment on these important platforms.

Damore Lawyer: Google Perpetuates ‘Stereotypes Every Day’

April 27th, 2018 4:09 PM
Managers at Google are allegedly not allowed to congratulate employees for behaviors that support the “U.S. White/male dominant culture.”  

More Tech Companies Announce Plans to Ditch Gun Emojis For Water Guns

April 27th, 2018 11:33 AM
Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have officially announced their plans to join other tech giants by swapping out their gun emojis for less offensive toy water guns.  

MRC’s Bozell: Tech Companies Must Stop Silencing Conservatives!

April 16th, 2018 10:16 AM
The Media Research Center (MRC) released an extensive report Monday documenting the censorship of conservative voices by Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google. The release of this report follows Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony last week where he was questioned about the growing concern that Facebook engages in political bias and censorship.

Most Libby Pardon Coverage Fails to Mention Original Plamegate Leaker

April 14th, 2018 10:06 AM
Most of the establishment press's coverage of President Donald Trump's pardon of Scooter Libby has not mentioned Richard Armitage, the person who admitted that he first leaked allegedly covert CIA agent Valerie Plame's name to journalist Robert Novak in 2003. This pervasive failure includes items at the Associated Press, New York Times, the Washington Post, and over 80 percent of Google News…

The Student Data-Mining Scandal Under Our Noses

April 12th, 2018 12:19 AM
While congresscritters expressed outrage at Facebook's intrusive data grabs during Capitol Hill hearings with Mark Zuckerberg this week, not a peep was heard about the Silicon Valley-Beltway theft ring purloining the personal information and browsing habits of millions of American schoolchildren.

Media Virtually Ignore Sheriffs Demanding Tightened Border Security

March 31st, 2018 11:57 PM
On March 21, The National Sheriffs Association released a letter signed by 380 of its members demanding that Congress pass legislation "tightening border security" and "support(ing) the replacement and upgrades to current barriers and fencing and construction of barriers along the U.S. and Mexico international boundary." The press has virtually ignored this effort.

Federal Judge Dismisses PragerU’s Lawsuit Against YouTube

March 27th, 2018 3:32 PM
A federal judge dismissed PragerU’s lawsuit against Google on Monday. The suit alleged that Google’s video-sharing site, YouTube, violated the First Amendment by placing certain PragerU videos under its “Restricted Mode.” In the suit filed in October 2017, PragerU argued that placing the channel’s videos under YouTube’s “Restricted Mode” “violates its fundamental First Amendment rights under…
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PragerU Suing Google Over Censoring 40 of its Educational Videos

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February 9th, 2018 2:52 PM
Conservative media platform PragerU is suing Google this week over allegations of its educational videos being censored. The company has had 40 of its videos censored by the information and tech giant since October of last year, and believes it’s time to fight the corporation on its extreme violation of free speech laws.
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Carlson: Press Ignoring Higher Ed and Workplace Free Expression Crises

January 21st, 2018 3:33 PM
Free speech, free expression, and the simple right to go about your business without being subjected to attempts at brainwashing or the equivalent of a political inquisition have been under attack for years at colleges and universities, and more recently in the workplace. Most Americans don't appreciate the seriousness of the threats because, as Tucker Carlson explained in his opening monologue…

Google Suspends Flawed Fact-Check Effort; Poisonous Culture Remains

January 19th, 2018 4:48 PM
The Daily Caller's Eric Lieberman reported early Friday afternoon that Google is discontinuing (for now) its "fact-check" feature. The company is now characterizing the effort, which the Daily Caller exposed as a thinly veiled attempt to target conservative sites while leaving leftists alone, as an "experiment" which has been put "on hold," while the its engineers see, in Lieberman's words, "how…

Google Treats 6 Conservative Media Sites as Fake News, No Liberal Ones

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January 10th, 2018 1:38 PM
In a search in the browser Google Chrome, 6 of the top 20 conservative sites had “reviewed claims” showcased in the summary. By contrast, none of the top 20 liberal sites had “reviewed claims.” Instead, three of them -- The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker -- had “awards” displayed where “reviewed claims” would have been.  

Google's Fact-Checker Targets Conservatives, Ignores Left-Wing Media

January 9th, 2018 5:47 PM
Google’s new fact-checker is just as bias as you would expect. On Tuesday, The Daily Caller reported that the feature, for the most part, only targets conservative sites. For example, both The Daily Caller and Daily Wire are fact checked (and mostly incorrectly as the two sites point out), but Vox, HuffPost, ThinkProgress, Slate, Salon, Mother Jones, and Daily Kos are not.
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Liberals Mad: Google, Facebook Aided Anti-Refugee Ads in Swing States

October 19th, 2017 10:22 PM
Media liberals like James Warren at Poynter.org aren't happy with how social-media giants may have enabled the election of Donald Trump. He cited an article by Bloomberg News headlined "Facebook and Google Helped Anti-Refugee Campaign in Swing States." The group Secure America Now ran ads "touting a pair of controversial faux-tourism videos, showing France and Germany overrun by Sharia law."…