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It’s Episode 35 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about a recent MRC study that found 646 cases of censorship that covered criticism of President Joe Biden over the past two years.

The New York Times held its fire against Elon Musk during the will-he-or-won’t-he phase of the drama over the entrepreneurial billionaire’s potential purchase of Twitter, the social media “town square” that has throttled conservative opinion in the name of squelching “hate speech” and “disinformation.” Musk has caused controversy among the left for his strong free-speech proclamations…

The Trump-obsessed comedian Jimmy Kimmel thought he caught the former president in a “got heem” moment last night when trying to make fun of the former president’s Truth Social app. It aged horribly.

On Tuesday, National Review’s media and enterprise reporter Isaac Schorr provided a round-up of some of the most outrageous left-wing media reactions to billionaire Elon Musk buying Twitter, sarcastically noting that for many journalists, “It was the darkest day on Earth since net-neutrality repeal.” He then went through “the hysterical reaction of much of the mainstream press.”

“The extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all,” billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk tweeted Tuesday, commenting on the liberal outrage over his purchase of Twitter and plans to open it up to free speech.

If CNN+ wanted yet another example for why it failed so miserably it could look to Tuesday’s edition of Amanpour and Company on CNN International and PBS where CNN+ anchor and business professor Scott Galloway wondered if Elon Musk’s version of free speech includes killing puppies.

Elon Musk had a lot to say about free speech since he purchased Twitter for $44 billion this week. “Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate,” he tweeted about Twitter’s famous censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story from the New York Post.

Twitter’s top lawyer, Vijaya Gadde apparently broke down crying during a meeting with staff on Monday after news of billionaire Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company broke, according to a Tuesday report from Politico. This is the same lawyer who decided to crackdown and purge the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election and to ban former President Trump from the platform. And she…

Morning Joe has given a general thumbs-down on Elon Musk's Twitter takeover. there was an exchange between Mika and NYT Washington bureau chief, Bumiller. The latter uttered that classic line, "we all believe in free speech, BUT . . . "  Bumiller went on to fret about the "guardrails" coming down, and claimed Twitter has become "a platform for a lot of misogyny." A terrified Mika recited a…

On Tuesday, both NBC’s Today show and ABC’s Good Morning America hyped a suggestion from Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos that fellow billionaire and new Twitter owner Elon Musk might be under the influence of China’s authoritarian regime given the amount of business the Tesla CEO does in the country. However, neither network mentioned that in a…

Though not anywhere near the DEFCON-1 levels seen on social media and TV on Monday afternoon after it was announced that Elon Musk had bought Twitter, a few White House reporters expressed their misgivings during the Psaki show, including one reporter who was concerned that “purveyors of...misinformation” and “disinformation” would be allowed “to speak” on Twitter and it would be a company…

The purchase of Twitter by a free-speech advocate, billionaire Elon Musk, has prompted iconic conservative commentator Mark Levin to return to the social media behemoth -- and he wasted no time getting back to true form.

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was optimistic about Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of the platform. He shared his thoughts in a series of tweets Monday evening. “In principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter,” he tweeted.

Minutes after it was officially announced that billionaire Elon Musk had bought Twitter for approximately $44 billion Monday afternoon, MSNBC continued to freak out over the news. Correspondent Jo Ling Kent hyped left-wing “critics” who claimed that their very “safety” was in jeopardy with Musk taking over the social media giant.