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Free Press’ Nora Benavidez tells Amanpour & Company why content moderation on social media is crucial for democracy.

Fifteen years into the cratering of the local commercial-newspaper business, a burgeoning civic-media movement is developing in pursuit of a just society for all.

IBM said it will stop advertising on X after a report found that its ads on the platform had appeared alongside pro-Nazi tweets.

The FCC has approved new rules to prevent ISPs from discriminating against customers based on income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion or national origin.

Meta has decided to allow political ads falsely claiming that the 2020 election was stolen to appear on the platform once again.

The rules empower the FCC to review and investigate instances of discrimination by broadband providers.

The rules prevent ISPs from excluding people on the basis of income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion or national origin.

This report shows that the California Journalism Preservation Act would result in a massive giveaway to large and profitable media outlets like Fox News.

Free Press Action VP Matt Wood noted that surveillance tools “disproportionately target people of color, recent immigrants, members of religious groups and dissidents.”

The report finds that unless policymakers intervene, the persistent, unchecked and profit-driven collection of our personal data will continue to undermine users’ digital civil rights.