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4 days ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Gabriela Pariseau |Tom Olohan |Luis Cornelio
A major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot has exhibited troubling behaviors in response to researcher testing, as multiple models rebelled against commands. On May 23, Palisades Research announced the results of tests conducted on several AI chatbots, finding that three separate OpenAI models ignored instructions and “sabotaged” a request to shut down. OpenAI models—Codex-mini, o3 and o4-mini—all refused to terminate their operations.
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4 days ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Tom Olohan |Catherine Salgado |Gabriela Pariseau |Luis Cornelio
CBS News’s 60 Minutes platformed a famous author’s stunning claim that America’s political right is anti-free speech like the political left, but MRC has the evidence to prove heavy leftist censorship bias. Appearing on 60 Minutes Sunday, writer Salman Rushdie claimed that leftists silencing free speech online is no different than the right opposing racist and sexualized books in schools.
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5 days ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Gabriela Pariseau |Tom Olohan |Catherine Salgado |Luis Cornelio
A Texas bill that threatened free speech has failed to move ahead in the state legislature. The bill, HB 186, failed to pass just before the end of the Texas legislature’s session, AP reported Thursday, all but ending the push to ban social media accounts entirely for Texas children under 18 for now. Such a system would require age verification that threatens anonymous free speech.
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5 days ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Luis Cornelio |Michael Morris |Tom Olohan
The Trump administration is coming after foreign government officials who pressure Big Tech platforms to censor Americans—and Brazil might be their first target. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller pointed directly at Brazil on Friday when asked about the administration’s campaign to protect Americans and Big Tech companies from foreign censorship.
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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Luis Cornelio |Michael Morris |Tom Olohan
Even as Meta seeks congratulations on free speech reforms amid federal scrutiny, the company tacitly admitted on Thursday that censorship is not over on its platforms. Meta framed its first-quarter integrity report as a major free speech win while also confessing that it continues to err in censoring posts.
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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Luis Cornelio |Michael Morris |Catherine Salgado |Tom Olohan
The State Department is on the warpath against online censorship, and Republican lawmakers are rallying to the cause. Several lawmakers, including Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), hailed the State Department after Samuel Samson, the senior advisor for the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, scolded Europe as a “hotbed of digital censorship” in the agency’s official Substack page on Tuesday.
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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Tom Olohan |Luis Cornelio |Curtis Houck
A freshman Ohio senator has lambasted Google’s YouTube for censoring critical information on the COVID-19 pandemic. In a May 21 Homeland Security Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R, OH) condemned the Big Tech censorship of previous Senate testimony. Moreno highlighted YouTube’s deletion of videos of a 2021 senate hearing featuring testimony from Dr. Pierre Kory and Dr. Peter McCullough on the COVID-19 pandemic.
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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Tom Olohan |Catherine Salgado |Luis Cornelio |Tim Kilcullen
Free speech advocates are hailing Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s move to ban visas for foreign nationals implicated in censorship as a major step toward protecting freedom of speech worldwide.
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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Luis Cornelio |Tim Kilcullen |Curtis Houck
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a big move against foreigners who trample the rights of Americans. Rubio promised visa restrictions for those who work to censor Americans in a Wednesday announcement on X. “For too long, Americans have been fined, harassed, and even charged by foreign authorities for exercising their free speech rights,” he said. “I am announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply to foreign officials and persons who are complicit in censoring Americans.
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2 weeks ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Tom Olohan |Luis Cornelio |Catherine Salgado |Gabriela Pariseau
The Trump administration has ditched the Biden administration’s encroaching artificial intelligence policies as it looks to a new approach.
