This is the written testimony that Free Press Action Vice President of Policy and General Counsel Matthew Wood submitted for a Dec. 1 congressional hearing.
The FCC doesn’t have the data it needs to ensure that the broadband-infrastructure money is spent where it’s most needed. But there’s a clear place to start: in communities of color.
This paper by Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols advocates for a Local Journalism Initiative to establish independent nonprofit news outlets in every U.S. community.
A recent roundtable examined how social-media platforms are allowing non-English disinformation about vaccines, elections and other crucial issues to proliferate.