Telecoms Gave These Organizations Millions, But You Wouldn't Know That From Reading Their Anti-Net Neutrality Op-Eds

May 3, 2017

Eric Hananoki, Media Matters

Numerous opinion pieces running in publications like The Hill and Washington Examiner share two things in common: praise for Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposed rollback of Net Neutrality rules, and millions in undisclosed funding from the telecommunications industry for the writers’ organizations.

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