Press Releases

PHOENIX — The Media 2070 documentary follows the journey of a talented young journalist who experiences systemic racism in a major Arizona newsroom.

Free Press Action’s Nora Benavidez discussed how the business models of social-media companies “threaten to destabilize our democracy by amplifying lies and calls for violence.”

There’s an urgent need for the agency to establish clear rules against abusive data practices that undermine civil rights and sabotage access to opportunities.

The bill would affirm the FCC’s role in ensuring that high-speed internet is offered on just, reasonable, affordable and nondiscriminatory terms to everyone in the United States.

The bill prohibits online platforms and other entities from collecting, processing and sharing people’s data in ways that discriminate “on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, or disability.”

The groups are urging the committee to advance the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, which would prohibit data merchants from selling personal data to authorities without a legal warrant.

The legislation would restore the FCC’s authority to ensure that internet access — essential during the pandemic — is universally available, resilient and affordable for everyone.

The Twitter whistleblower testified that Twitter knew prior to the Jan. 6 attack that then-President Trump's tweets were inciting calls to violence.

Free Press and others are calling on the agency to establish clear rules against abusive data practices that undermine civil rights and sabotage access to opportunities.

As Sens. Baldwin, Luján, Schatz and Wyden note, the bill could be misused to help “supercharge harmful content online and make it more difficult to combat.”