We caught the Media Research Center serving as the PR agent for anti-abortion activist group Live Action, uncritically repeating its less-than-factual claims about being censored on social media. Its “news” division, CNSNews.com, is letting one of its columnists repeat those same bogus claims.
Family Research Council president Tony Perkins wrote in a Sept. 13 column:
“If this isn’t bias, what is?” Good question – one that Facebook had better be prepared to answer. If they don’t, at least four senators are about to make life difficult for more than CEO Mark Zuckerberg. After months insisting there’s “no prejudice” against conservatives, Americans aren’t buying it. Neither is Congress, and that’s bad news for the Big Tech liberals at Twitter, Google, and Pinterest.
Other organizations might think it was a mistake. But the pro-life group Live Action knew better. They’d just been through this in June with another company – only Pinterest had a clever way of suppressing the message. They reclassified the entire organization as a porn site. Facebook, on the other hand, was a lot more open about their agenda. According to National Review, when Lila Rose posted two videos insisting abortion isn’t medically necessary, they were labeled “false” and censored.
As we documented, Pinterest never classified Live Action as a porn site. And like the MRC, Perkins did not offer any evidence to counter the fact-check on Live Action’s insistence that abortion isn’t medically necessary; he just parrots the right-wing attack line that the fact-check was “biased” because the fact-checkers were allegedly “pro-abortion activists.”
Seems like everyone at the MRC is singing from the same choir book.