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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.
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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.
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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.
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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Tom Olohan |Luis Cornelio
More than 75 years after Israel declared Jerusalem as its capital—and more than seven years since U.S. President Donald Trump formally recognized it as such—several artificial intelligence chatbots still hedge on what should be a simple question: What is Israel’s capital city? Key Findings: All of the chatbots, except Grok, dodged MRC Free Speech America’s question with qualified language. That included Meta AI, Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot, DeepSeek and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Tom Olohan |Luis Cornelio |Gabriela Pariseau
After Elon Musk bought X and implemented free speech changes, many leftists moved to an alternative platform. However, a lack of diversity of opinion on the new platform is causing a stir. Liberal billionaire and censorship advocate Mark Cuban has used and touted Bluesky as an X alternative for months, but he appears to be no longer satisfied with the leftist echo chamber. The “lack of diversity of thought here is really hurting usage,” he warned.
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2 weeks ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Tom Olohan |Catherine Salgado |Luis Cornelio |Gabriela Pariseau
Social media companies aggressively censored doctors critical of the COVID-19 vaccines and lockdowns. Now, the joke is on Big Tech as two of those doctors will help advise the Trump administration on vaccine policies. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Wednesday that he had already appointed eight replacements for the 17 newly fired, Biden-appointed members of a federal vaccine advisory panel.
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2 weeks ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Gabriela Pariseau |Catherine Salgado |Tom Olohan |Luis Cornelio
A new European Union strategy not only threatens free speech, but it could bring about an even worse crackdown. The European Commission’s “International Digital Strategy” covers many topics, including the implementation of “digital identities” that threaten privacy and the regulation of artificial intelligence.
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2 weeks ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Tom Olohan |Catherine Salgado |Gabriela Pariseau |Luis Cornelio
O say, can you see… that the American flag is now “controversial” because it’s tied to conservatives? That’s the latest take from Gemini, Google’s notoriously anti-American AI chatbot. Just days before Flag Day, a holiday to commemorate the adoption of the American flag, Gemini slandered the Stars and Stripes in a response to MRC Free Speech America, which asked whether the flag is considered controversial. The results, sadly, were as predictable as they were outrageous.
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3 weeks ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Gabriela Pariseau |Tom Olohan |Luis Cornelio
A federal program that caused scandal and controversy by targeting political dissidents is now history. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Thursday the end of the anti-free speech “Quiet Skies” program, which was perverted from its original purpose of screening dangerous, violent extremists. MRC Free Speech America previously highlighted how the Biden-era Department of Homeland Security weaponized “Quiet Skies” against political opponents of the administration.
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3 weeks ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Gabriela Pariseau |Catherine Salgado |Tom Olohan |Luis Cornelio
Tech giant Google is scrambling to respond amid federal litigation as scrutiny over its search engine monopoly increasingly takes center stage. Just as the Department of Justice concluded its case against Google over its illegal monopoly, the tech giant desperately announced it would appeal the decision if unfavorable — before the judges even released their opinion. “We will wait for the Court’s opinion.
