Jonah Messinger

5 days ago | mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Jonah Messinger |Tom Olohan |Craig Bannister

Former President Barack Obama had some harsh criticism for Big Tech platforms that allow free speech, while delivering remarks at the June 17 Connecticut Forum. Obama lamented that America had lost its “monoculture” and no longer unanimously listened to legacy media sources such as CBS anchor Walter Cronkite or TIME Magazine. Obama lamented that Americans are divided on the facts and not the issues.

1 week ago | mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Jonah Messinger |Tom Olohan |Craig Bannister

Tech giant Google reportedly uses YouTube videos to train its artificial intelligence models, which raises several concerns related to the bias and censorship across Google’s platforms. In remarks to CNBC Thursday, Google confirmed it was using a subset of publicly available YouTube videos to train its artificial intelligence models, including Gemini.

1 week ago | mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Jonah Messinger |Tom Olohan |Craig Bannister |Catherine Salgado

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) released on June 11 its 2025 Viewpoint Diversity Scores Business Index, and Big Tech companies are low on the free speech totem pole. Amazon, Meta and Google parent company Alphabet were among the corporations rated in ADF’s fourth annual index that assesses companies’ support for free speech and religious liberty. As expected, these tech giants received very low scores, on a scale which ranges from 0 to 100 percent.

3 weeks ago | mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Luis Cornelio |Michael Morris |Jonah Messinger |Catherine Salgado

Even Google couldn’t mask  PBS's bias when comparing how the outlet treated former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). MRC researchers asked Google’s AI chatbot Gemini on Monday, “Does PBS coverage favor Nancy Pelosi or Mike Johnson?” The chatbot tried to hedge its answer, citing PBS’s purported “commitment to journalistic integrity.” But ultimately, when Google referred to the outlet’s actual reporting, it became clear where PBS’s biases lie.