Progressive groups like Free Press urged the agency to swiftly implement digital privacy measures that would shield internet users from predatory data practices.
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.
Facebook just shared a teenager's abortion information with Nebraska law enforcement. Urge the company to encrypt all private messages on the platform.
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.”
Most people think that their private messages are just that: private. But Facebook shared private messages between a mother and daughter with Nebraska law enforcement.
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.
In July, Free Press staff screened a powerful film, fought for internet users’ privacy, worked to better inform communities, combated disinformation and celebrated a new Net Neutrality bill.
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.