The Lifeline program — which the Trump FCC has attacked — helps low-income people afford phone and internet. And right now Lifeline couldn’t be more crucial.
Hundreds of newspapers are languishing in the hands of hedge funds and chains. It’s time to replant them with community nonprofit groups and mission-driven owners.
Trump’s executive order would undermine this law and force social-media sites to amplify his lies and propaganda with little fact checking or contextualizing.
Free Press urges the FCC to maintain the current minimum standards and subsidies for the Lifeline program until the agency can fully analyze the Lifeline marketplace.
The legislation from Sens. Blackburn, Graham and Wicker would keep a door open to those who want to drown the internet in an ocean of disinformation and toxicity.