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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Tom Olohan |Tim Kilcullen
Text Audio Executive SummaryMRC Free Speech America previously exposed Wikipedia editors for meddling with the pages of Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel. Vice President JD Vance wasn’t spared poor treatment either.
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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Tom Olohan |Tim Kilcullen
The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and shareholders are speaking out against politically-influenced debanking, which constitutes financial censorship. ADF announced April 15 that it is backing a resolution that calls for longterm reforms to prevent any more politically-fueled targeting of U.S. Bank customers.
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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Tom Olohan |Catherine Salgado |Tim Kilcullen |Gabriela Pariseau
In the wake of Meta’s trial for monopolistic and anti-free speech practices, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson stressed that well-enforced antitrust laws can help prevent election-interfering censorship. Ferguson told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on Monday’s “Mornings with Maria” that Meta's immense power and size is part of what has allowed it to censor so effectively.
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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Tom Olohan |Tim Kilcullen |Gabriela Pariseau
The Trump administration has annihilated funding for a Soros-funded group dedicated to undermining the criminal justice system, following a Media Research Center exposé. The Vera Institute of Justice, a soft-on-crime group that received at least $11 million from leftist billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF), acknowledged on April 9 that the Department of Justice (DoJ) had stripped them of approximately $5 million in grants.
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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Tom Olohan |Tim Kilcullen |Gabriela Pariseau
New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney accused social media platforms of being “seas of racism” and implied that online free speech dangerously leads to criminal activity. While discussing a “public safety plan” last week, Carney accused American Big Tech companies like X of allowing their platforms to be used by hateful criminals.“Online platforms have become seas of racism, misogyny, antisemitism, Islamophobia and hate in all its forms.
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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Tom Olohan |Catherine Salgado |Gabriela Pariseau |Tim Kilcullen
A familiar face will be overseeing the court battle between the Trump administration and Meta. Today, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s suit against Big Tech behemoth Meta will commence in the court of Chief Judge James Boasberg. The FTC is arguing that Meta has repeatedly violated federal antitrust law in order to grow and maintain a monopoly in the social media market. Meta owns several Big Tech platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Threads and WhatsApp.
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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Tom Olohan |Tim Kilcullen |Catherine Salgado |Gabriela Pariseau
The pro-free speech Federal Trade Commission chair highlighted the harms that censorship poses to the “marketplace of ideas” and argued that antitrust reform is needed to check Big Tech. FTC’s Andrew Ferguson spoke Thursday at the Stigler Center on the connection between free speech and antitrust reform.
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1 week ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Tim Kilcullen |Gabriela Pariseau |Tom Olohan
MRC Free Speech Vice President Dan Schneider poured cold water on the left’s selective interest in free speech and highlighted outrageous censorship uncovered by MRC Free Speech America. On the April 12 edition of Saturday Agenda with Newsmaxhost Rob Astorino, Schneider blasted the left for its incessant whining on behalf of the Associated Press (AP) now that President Donald Trump has limited the outlet’s access to the White House.
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2 weeks ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Tom Olohan |Tim Kilcullen |Gabriela Pariseau
An explosive Senate hearing that uncovered Meta’s alleged cozy relationship with the Chinese Communist Party sparked some justified ire on X. At a Wednesday hearing before the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former director of global public policy at Meta, accused Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg of creating censorship tools for the CCP and briefing Chinese officials on its artificial intelligence model.
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2 weeks ago | 
mrcfreespeechamerica.org | Catherine Salgado |Tom Olohan |Tim Kilcullen
The Trump administration is investigating an agency of the censorship arm of the Department of Homeland Security following an MRC report outing the agency for its anti-free speech activities. In an exclusive study on 57 Biden Censorship Initiatives, MRC Free Speech America provided evidence that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) flagged social media posts both before and after the 2020 election for tech companies to censor.
