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Progressive groups like Free Press urged the agency to swiftly implement digital privacy measures that would shield internet users from predatory data practices.

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.

Social-media companies have taken steps to restrict Russian state-media accounts. But posts from those accounts still spread in non-English languages and in places outside the West.

Here’s what Congress has left to do on tech policy later this year, and how likely it is to get done.

The Trump FCC gave Elon Musk’s Starlink nearly a billion in subsidies.

Media 2070 is focused on documenting anti-Blackness in journalism and transforming who has the capital to tell their own stories over the next 50 years.

The bill has the support of media and democracy advocates, with Free Press Action VP Matt Wood noting that the pandemic has shown us how “absolutely crucial” internet access is.

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.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling, our ability to safely access information and health care online is in danger.