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Dec 5, 2024 | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Tom Olohan |Luis Cornelio |Catherine Salgado |Donald Perkins
Big Tech’s censorship efforts just hit a yuuuge roadblock. In a statement on Truth Social, incoming (and former) President Donald J. Trump announced that he will nominate competition hardliner Gail Slater to lead the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. Trump argued the appointment was necessary not just to preserve the free market, but also to protect Americans’ liberties.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Luis Cornelio |Catherine Salgado |Tim Kilcullen |Donald Perkins
MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider and the creators of a newly released free speech documentary on free speech got to the heart of the decision that dealt a major blow to Big Tech censorship. For the Dec. 4 edition of the MRC UnCensored podcast, Schneider spoke to the creators of the documentary The Bird and the Bee—filmmaker Matt Pirrall and Thomas Pack, Palladium Pictures’s program director and associate producer.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Gabriela Pariseau |Tom Olohan |Donald Perkins
Facebook pulled the trigger by suspending—and later reinstating—the page of one of the nation’s largest gun manufacturers. The Mark Zuckerberg-owned social media platform targeted Smith & Wesson, a firearms manufacturer in business since 1852, abruptly suspending its page just days before Thanksgiving and Black Friday. According to a now-viral screenshot shared by Smith & Wesson on Elon Musk’s X platform, Facebook vaguely claimed the page violated its policies on weapons-related content.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Gabriela Pariseau |Catherine Salgado |Tom Olohan |Donald Perkins
Another alleged "error" came back to bite Facebook after it censored a Republican senator's post about releasing the Jeffrey Epstein flight logs. Controversy has surrounded talk of an alleged list of famous people who were involved in Epstein’s child sex trafficking operation, and it appears Facebook is attempting to suppress that controversy, according to Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Gabriela Pariseau |Tom Olohan |Donald Perkins |Catherine Salgado
Leftist panelists on CNN had an anti-free speech meltdown because X content is supposedly regulated less than CNN (spoiler alert, it’s not). CNN pundit Scott Jennings ignited a firestorm on Monday’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip after he cited a survey indicating that X is the most ideologically balanced social media platform.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Tom Olohan |Donald Perkins |Tim Kilcullen
President-elect Donald Trump has announced his nominees for the most visible positions at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Each is a staunch free-speech advocate, except for one, his pick for surgeon general. Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance and nearly every person chosen to lead HHS have experienced censorship themselves and become outspoken champions for free speech. This includes Robert F.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Donald Perkins |Tom Olohan |Catherine Salgado |Tim Kilcullen
One day after political commentator and podcast host Robby Starbuck announced that Walmart had agreed to distance itself from radical diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices, a high-ranking Walmart executive chose to do a legacy media interview. Here’s how that went. The CEO of Walmart U.S., John Furner appeared on the Nov. 26 edition of CBS Mornings and immediately fielded questions from the show’s co-hosts Tony Dokoupil and Gayle King about the changes.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Tom Olohan |Tim Kilcullen |Donald Perkins
Trump’s FCC Chairman nominee Brendan Carr has his work cut out for him, explained a top Heritage Foundation researcher.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Donald Perkins |Tom Olohan |Catherine Salgado |Joseph Vazquez
The district attorney who refused to seek the maximum sentence for Laken Riley’s killer is one of three Soros prosecutors to lose reelection this month. District Attorney (DA) Deborah Gonzalez of Georgia’s Western Judicial Circuit, who made headlines for her soft treatment of convicted murderer Jose Ibarra, lost her reelection to challenger Kalki Yalamanchili by over 75 percent of the vote.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Tim Kilcullen |Catherine Salgado |Donald Perkins |Joseph Vazquez
An Australian censorship bill went up in smoke over the weekend after it received abysmal support from the Australian Senate. The Australian government announced Sunday that it had withdrawn a bill that would have fined tech platforms up to 5 percent their of global revenue if they allowed the spread of alleged “misinformation” online, Reuters reported.
