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Over the past month, Facebook has gotten a taste of the inevitable consequences of sucking up to the right.

Major brands have been joining the boycott every day for about a week, putting pressure on Facebook to root out hate speech and misinformation.

Numerous businesses are pausing their advertising campaigns on Facebook to boycott the company’s policies around what content it moderates and how.

The past 15 years have been pivotal for the newspaper industry, a period of immense disruption and financial distress.

Access to broadband is receding. The reason? U.S. broadband rates are some of the most expensive in the world.

When the FCC approved the Charter-Time Warner Cable deal, it required Charter to refrain from imposing usage-based billing or interconnection fees for seven years.

A coalition of activist groups has started a campaign, “Stop Hate for Profit,” to force Facebook to change.

Charter has asked the FCC to let it impose data caps on broadband users and seek interconnection payments from large online video providers.

Free Press calculates that the United States has lost between 15,000 and 21,000 reporting jobs in the last 15 years.

The groups are urging big advertisers to pull spending from Facebook to protest what they say is the company’s failure to make its platform a less-hostile place.