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From ads about enslaved people to alerts about lynchings, the press has long profited off — and contributed to — Black suffering.

Members of a New York University research team studying political advertising and COVID-19 misinformation on Facebook found their accounts suspended this week.

Last year Free Press released a report showing how some ISPs had been gaming the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund subsidy program to get money they didn’t deserve.

Two years after the El Paso massacre, media corporations still benefit from enabling hate and violence.

Two years after the deadly El Paso shooting, white supremacists continue to mobilize, recruit and fundraise on social media.

Media institutions must reckon with the harm they’ve caused Black and POC communities, and must provide recompense for what’s been lost.

“Ajit Pai ignored early criticism and rapidly awarded money to the likes of Elon Musk for building broadband bridges to nobody,” said Free Press’ S. Derek Turner.

The FCC can’t readily identify where high-speed internet is missing in rural areas because there are no accurate maps of address-by-address coverage.

Starlink and other ISPs may have to give up money that Pai shouldn’t have awarded.

Alicia Bell, the director of Free Press’ Media 2070 project, discusses how U.S. media have always stoked racism and have never been held accountable.