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Sinclair is controversial for its size — it’s often been compared to the radio conglomerate Clear Channel — its unabashedly right-wing politics (which it pushes in the “must-run” segments it forces all its stations to air) — and its close connections to the Trump White House.

Everyone seems to have a beef with Big Tech these days. Now we can add internet advocacy groups to the list.

Advocacy group Free Press says the FCC's draft on the state of U.S. wireless competition leaves out key historical context.

While the Lifeline program was a crucial step toward providing low-income Americans with internet access, it’s also become the target of uproarious criticism.

Net Neutrality advocates are planning two days of protest in Washington, D.C., this month as they fight plans to defang regulations designed to protect the open internet.

ProPublica is launching a “PAC” to scrutinize campaign ads on Facebook.

The author of a GAO report critical of the FCC's Lifeline program said the Commission's 2016 reforms may resolve some concerns of waste, fraud and abuse. Free Press Deputy Director Jessica Gonzalez called the report "outdated" and "sensationalized."

Perceptions of waste and abuse in the subsidized Lifeline program often stem from “overblown, and frankly offensive" assumptions about poor and minority communities, a representative from Free Press told the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Sinclair Broadcast Group's proposed $3.9 billion buyout of Tribune Media would raise prices for consumers, harm media diversity and consolidate too much power in the hands of a single corporate giant, threatening "the health of American democracy," according to critics of the deal who are urging federal regulators to block the merger.

Last year, for the first time since the advent of broadband technology, the FCC passed strict rules governing customer privacy for Internet service providers. Five months later, Congress voted to kill the rules. Because President Donald Trump signed the resolution repealing the rules, no federal agency has the authority to protect the privacy of broadband customers.