Michael Morris

6 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.

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.

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.

2 months ago | mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Tom Olohan |Catherine Salgado |Gabriela Pariseau |Michael Morris

A new bombshell from the House Judiciary Committee exposed the FBI’s extreme effort to promote censorship of the Hunter Biden scandal and manipulate the 2020 election. On April 1, House Judiciary announced on X that it had obtained internal FBI chat logs. These showed that the agency had imposed a gag order on employees related to the New York Post Hunter Biden scandal ahead of the 2020 election. One employee who tried to confirm the story was reportedly silenced.

2 months ago | mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Gabriela Pariseau |Tom Olohan |Michael Morris

A court in the United Kingdom ignored a State Department message, convicting a 64-year-old woman for peacefully protesting an abortion mill. The woman’s crime? Silently holding a sign offering to speak with women entering the clinic. Livia Tossici-Bolt was convicted on Friday and told to pay $26,028 (20,000 pounds) in fines, according to Reuters.