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Hundreds of demonstrators and counter-protestors gathered at Lincoln Park in DC Friday to voice their opinions on the Emancipation Memorial. Some rioters have vowed to tear down the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the capital that commemorates his 1863 proclamation freeing enslaved people during the Civil War, seeing it as “racist.” Counter-protestors gathered in an attempt to educate people on…
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MRC President L. Brent Bozell on Monday announced that the Media Research Center would no longer accept money from the AmazonSmile program. Amazon has brushed off conservative concerns about letting an anti-Christian organization like SPLC decide which groups may receive funds. Additionally, Amazon recently tried to censor a book because it didn’t toe the party line on the coronavirus lockdowns…
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The Free Speech Alliance (FSA), a coalition of more than 60 conservative organizations, released the following statement Wednesday about President Donald Trump’s executive order addressing bias on social media platforms. The FSA declared that the biased fact-checkers, leftist oversight boards and lack of transparency are part of a "campaign against conservatives." The full statement is…
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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered another set of evening curfews for the District for Monday and Tuesday, following nights of riots in response to the death of George Floyd. Watch the video above for a look at some of the sights and sounds of events in DC as they unfolded on Saturday night, May 30th.
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President Donald Trump took at swing at Big Tech bias by signing an “Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship” in the Oval Office on Thursday. And he relied on information from the MRC to do it. “My executive order calls for new regulations under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to make it that social media companies that engage in censoring or any political conduct will…
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“President Trump is right," MRC President Brent Bozell said in a statement released Thursday. "Twitter, Facebook and other Big Tech firms are guilty of censoring conservatives and their protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act should be reviewed." “Twitter’s actions against the president’s tweets are just the latest in their long history of censoring conservatives. Both…
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(UPDATE: 5/26/20 West has been released from hospital. More information is available here.) Senior Fellow for the MRC, Lt. Col. Allen West, was injured in a motorcycle crash on Saturday.   According to a press release, West was on his drive back from the “Free Texas Rally” in Austin, TX, when he was involved in an accident when a car cut in front of him.  He is recovering, in stable…
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On Friday, MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell sent an open letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey demanding consistency in the social media giant's policing of satirical content. The complete letter is below: Mr. Jack Dorsey Chief Executive Officer Twitter   Dear Jack, A May 19 “Daily Show” video takes the President and several commentators’ words (mine included) completely out of context to…
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  White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany meets with the press, Wednesday May 20, 2020.
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On Thursday, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell and the members of the Free Speech Alliance (FSA) released a statement expressing deep concerns on Facebook’s new Oversight Board. Here is the statement in full:    While leftist organizations savaged him, we supported CEO Mark Zuckerberg when he talked about making Facebook a marketplace of ideas and spoke forcefully saying the company…