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NewsGuard & Censorship Update October 2025 Report Inside This Edition: FTC Action Prevents Viewpoint Discrimination in Omnicom–IPG Merger US House, Senate Block Biased Media Monitors in 2026 National Defense Authorization Act State Department Officially Shuts Down Global Engagement Center, a Censorship Apparatus Google Admits to Censorship of Conservative Voices, Stops Short of Offering Restitution […]
NewsGuard & Censorship Update September 2025 Report Inside This Edition: Congress to Consider Anti-Media Censorship Provision in Proposed FY 2026 NDAA Foundation for Freedom Online Report: State Dept Pushed Media Literacy to Censor Media Research Center Warns Trump Administration About AI’s Left Leaning Bias NewsGuard & Censorship Media Roundup OVERVIEW September is bringing fresh momentum […]
August 2025 Report Inside This Edition: Proposed FY 2026 NDAA Advances with Anti-Media Censorship Provision IMC, CPAC File Comment with FTC Opposing Omnicom-IPG Merger FCC Reviews Broadcasting Cap; Lifting it Would Quash Diversity of Voices on TV Model Bill to Prevent Biased Media Monitors in Schools Presses On DHS Spent $7 Million to Indoctrinate […]
July 2025 Report Inside This Edition: FTC Investigates Media Monitors, Ad Agencies for Colluding to Squeeze Out Conservative Media FTC approves Omnicom, IPG Megamerger; Silent about NewsGuard Big Win: Florida Says ‘NO’ to Ad Agencies Backing Biased Media Monitors IMC Board Member John Tillman: Advertisers Should Stop Discriminating Against Conservative Content Creators Model Bill Proposed […]
June 2025 Report Inside This Edition: Legacy Media Gets Positive NewsGuard Scores Despite Biden Mental Decline Cover-Up Sen. Schmitt Slams Biden’s Head of “Ministry of Truth” at Judiciary Hearing FY 2026 National Defense Authorization Act Anti-Media Censorship Provision State Legislative Efforts to Push Back Against Media Censorship NewsGuard & Censorship Media Roundup OVERVIEW […]
May 2025 Report Inside This Edition: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio Announces the Dismantling of the Censorship Industrial Complex within the State Department House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee Hearing on Censorship Industrial Complex State Department Nominee Sarah Rogers, a Free Speech Ally, Testifies before US Senate Foreign Relations Committee State Legislative Efforts to Push […]
April 2025 Report Inside This Edition: US Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Censorship Industrial Complex US Sen. Eric Schmitt Commits to Fighting Media Censorship Gail Slater Confirmed to Lead DOJ’s Antitrust Division New Report on Big Pharma’s Ties to NewsGuard Anti-Media Censorship Legislation Presses on in the States NewsGuard & Censorship Media Roundup OVERVIEW […]
March 2025 Report Inside This Edition: Microsoft Disavows NewsGuard Affiliation Florida CFO Asks DOGE to Audit Censorship Grants to Universities Federal and State Legislative Efforts to Stop Media Censorship NewsGuard & Censorship Media Roundup OVERVIEW The Independent Media Council (IMC) is full steam ahead in its mission to stop media censorship. This month alone, we’ve […]
OVERVIEW In last month’s update, we predicted that a new year, new Administration and new Congress would offer tremendous opportunities to strike blows to the censorship industrial complex. In only the first month of 2025, that prediction turned out to be true. Bigly. One of President Trump’s first executive orders prevents the federal government from […]
December NewsGuard & Censorship Update OVERVIEW Media censorship is alive and well, but the IMC is making real progress to stamp it out. As you’ll read in this month’s update, our wins have put media monitors such as NewsGuard on alert. At the federal level, we secured an anti-media censorship provision in the NDAA […]
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