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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Tom Olohan |Catherine Salgado
Elon Musk’s X has agreed to censor the account of an imprisoned mayor in Turkey, but is strongly protesting the government’s anti-free speech demands. X followed a legal demand blocking the account of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu within Turkey. Imamoglu is the primary political rival of the country’s dictatorial President Tayyip Erdogan and has been jailed on highly disputed corruption charges.
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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Tom Olohan |Gabriela Pariseau |Luis Cornelio
President Donald Trump has withdrawn his nominee for surgeon general who praised and endorsed online censorship. Trump announced on Truth Social Wednesday that he had withdrawn Nesheiwat’s nomination in favor of Dr. Casey Means, an ally of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy.
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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Tom Olohan |Gabriela Pariseau |Luis Cornelio
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has filed a “first-in-the-nation rule” to end Big Tech’s censorship monopoly. Bailey announced Tuesday that he filed a rule under the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act to secure “freedom of expression for social media users.” The rule requires that social media users in the state be allowed to choose “their own content moderators” instead of being at the mercy of algorithms rigged against certain viewpoints and content.
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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Tom Olohan |Catherine Salgado |Gabriela Pariseau |Luis Cornelio
The Trump White House signaled it may consider granting asylum to Europeans targeted for their free speech. At a White House press briefing on April 28, former Mumford & Sons musician and podcast host Winston Marshall asked whether his fellow British citizens could apply for political asylum in the U.S. if threatened with jail over free speech. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt praised Marshall for raising the issue and promised to pass it on to President Donald Trump.
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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Gabriela Pariseau |Luis Cornelio |Tom Olohan
Trump’s State Department condemned an anti-free speech government pressuring X to censor. The State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor went after Australia in a May 1 post on X after the country “required X to remove a post criticizing an individual for promoting gender ideology.” Removing this post would have cut off not merely an Australian audience from hearing the speech of a silenced user, but also the rest of the world.
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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Tom Olohan |Gabriela Pariseau |Luis Cornelio
The Trump-led FBI has placed on leave one of its key agents on leave for his involvement in the government’s collusion with social media companies to censor information. The move signals the bureau’s commitment to restoring public trust after years of the Biden administration’s efforts to undermine the First Amendment.
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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Gabriela Pariseau |Luis Cornelio |Catherine Salgado |Tom Olohan
After MRC Free Speech America exposed the extreme leftist bias of Wikipedia, a Trump-appointed federal prosecutor took the online encyclopedia to task. U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia’s parent company, a day after MRC reported that Wikipedia rates NPR and PBS—both biased, state-funded sources—as “generally reliable” while blacklisting nearly all right-leaning sites.
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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Luis Cornelio |Tom Olohan |Gabriela Pariseau
Google has a long history of interfering in elections in favor of leftwing candidates. The search giant now leaves no doubt when it comes to which political party’s election-related legislation it boosts in search results. MRC Free Speech America uncovered a troubling pattern in how Google treated two priority bills involving elections and free speech.
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2 weeks ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Gabriela Pariseau |Luis Cornelio |Tom Olohan
As Americans celebrated new beginnings with Passover and Christ’s Resurrection in April, Big Tech companies showed that they are not making a full reformation any time soon. Meta and communist Chinese government-tied TikTok were the two biggest offenders against free speech in April.
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2 weeks ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Tom Olohan |Gabriela Pariseau |Luis Cornelio
Picture this: a man walks up to you and says he wants to be your friend, follow you everywhere, read your thoughts, and predict what you'll think before you even think it. Creepy, right? Well, that's exactly what Mark Zuckerberg says he wants his AI to do. In a candid interview with podcast host and comedian Theo Von, Zuckerberg revealed that his company, Meta, seeks to develop AI technology that, in addition to solving complex problems, could also become a close friend of humans.
