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Zuckerberg’s Free Speech Promise Kept? MRC Sees Early Surge in Traffic

March 25th, 2025 10:14 AM

Media Research Center data indicates that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge to implement pro-free speech policies across Meta appears to have had an almost immediate impact.

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Ex-CNN Peace Prize Winner: Ditching Fact-Checkers Is 'Kleptocracy'

March 8th, 2025 12:30 PM

Former CNN reporter Maria Ressa won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for her “efforts to safeguard freedom of expression.” However, as the heads of the social media platforms move past their relationship with fact-checking companies and towards greater freedom of speech, she warned Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast host Jon Stewart that America is sliding towards “kleptocracy.”

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Oliver: Facebook Ditching Fact-Checkers 'Is Self-Serving Bull****'

February 25th, 2025 12:34 PM

Because HBO’s John Oliver waited until last week to kick off the 2025 season of Last Week Tonight, he is still catching up on all the news he missed. On Sunday, Oliver turned his attention to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to ditch its fact-checking partners, calling the decision “self-serving bullshit.” Oliver also tried to dismiss Big Tech censorship concerns, claiming Facebook…

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BREAKING: US Government Paid $2.4M to Soros-Backed Censorship Giant

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February 11th, 2025 6:02 PM

The revelation that The New York Times and Politico received millions collectively in taxpayer dollars from a slew of US government agencies sparked public outrage. But a new investigation by MRC Business will make the scandal of government-funded media even worse.

Are Meta’s Pro-Censorship Zealots Rebelling Against Zuckerberg?

January 31st, 2025 5:22 PM

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been undermined by repeated leaks of his comments and policy changes since agreeing to dismantle the censorship regime at Meta. That’s not a coincidence. 

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WaPo Columnist, MSNBC Ignore Government Pressure on Big Tech to Censor

January 21st, 2025 10:21 AM

After President Joe Biden complained about oligarchy and free speech on social media in his farewell address, Washington Post Columnist David Ignatius outrageously behaved as if the president had taken a hands-off approach to social media in office. 

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Not Having Fun: Here Were ABC’s Worst Pre-Inauguration Meltdowns

January 20th, 2025 3:05 PM

In the three hours leading up to President Trump’s second inauguration on Monday, the liberal journalists at ABC were having a rough time as they said America’s “deeply divided” thanks to Trump, suggested his affinity and support for the forgotten men and women is fake because of his budding friendships with tech billionaires, and that America no longer has real “check and balances” when…

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REGIME TO RESISTANCE: The Media Run With Fake ‘Oligarchy’ Narrative

January 17th, 2025 1:05 PM

President Joe Biden’s denunciations of an emerging “oligarchy” and “tech-industrial complex” appear to be, beyond a ham-handed attempt at an Eisenhower moment of his own, a clarion call to the media in the waning days of his presidency. If network news is to serve as a guide, it appears that the media have heeded the call.

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Nets Fawn Over Biden’s ‘Extraordinary’ ‘Speech for the History Books’

January 15th, 2025 10:40 PM

ABC, CBS, and NBC broke in Wednesday night for President Biden’s farewell address and, while they were never in total awe like they were with Barack Obama, they still showed their stripes in cheering the “advocate for working people” giving “very personal” “speech for the history books” and delivering an “extraordinary” message about the decline of “fact-checking” and an “oligarchy...that…

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Reversal Revealed on Rogan Experience

January 14th, 2025 2:34 PM

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg surprisingly opened up to podcast host Joe Rogan about the massive pressure the Biden administration and global governments put on Big Tech companies to censor speech. Zuckerberg is now calling for action.

Brent Bozell on Meta’s About Face: ‘Trust But Verify’

January 14th, 2025 11:54 AM

After a whirlwind of changes at Meta, MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell just made a bold claim about Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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Mollie Hemingway Lays the SMACK DOWN on the Censorship Cartel

January 12th, 2025 10:55 PM

The left continues to whine over Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to do away with censorship of free speech across his platforms, and allow the marketplace of ideas to decide which ideas win and which do not. While discussing this on Fox News Sunday, Editor-in-Chief of The Federalist Mollie Hemingway laid waste to those organizations vested in online censorship.

The Age of Censorship Is Ending

January 12th, 2025 11:05 AM

This week, in a stunning volte-face, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would now be revising its censorship policies to accord with his older vision of free speech. Specifically, Zuckerberg committed Facebook to revising a series of standards: reliance on left-wing fact-checkers will end, replaced by an X-like community notes system in which fact-checking will be crowdsourced; political…

The View Argues Over Meta Rules and Farah Griffin Defends Free Speech

January 10th, 2025 4:45 PM

On Wednesday morning’s segment of The View, following Meta’s announcement concerning its change in fact checking, hosts were up in arms and ready to argue. What started out as a conversation regarding the necessity of fact checking soon cascaded into the classic argument for free speech. Surprisingly Alyssa Farah Griffin, often noted as the table’s often-wavering conservative, stepped up to…