Major wireless carriers illegally shared customers' location data with unscrupulous data brokers, bounty hunters and law enforcement, among others. Today the FCC fined these companies.

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Join members of Free Press' Media Power Collaborative for 'Building Worker and Community Power to Transform Local News.'

We'll hear from Alex Han In These Times, Kate Harloe Freelance Solidarity Project , Andy Grimm Chicago News Guild on the importance of organizing. #MayDay

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.Free Press Action has long favored taxing advertising as a way to support local journalism. But CA lawmakers must improve SB 1327 to address the root causes of the crisis in local news.

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Join Nora Benavidez with Knight First Amendment Institute's on World Press Freedom Day as they examine what it means to safeguard and support the role of the press in the United States today.

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Deeper Than A Div/de launches TODAY at 3pm ET🎉 Join us for the world premiere of MJ’s first documentary on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/7ZXCE9EKzM4

Want to learn more about the Digital Divide? Check out our Deeper Than A Div/de Viewing Guide now available on our website.

✊Celebrate May Day by joining the Media Power Collaborate tomorrow at 6pmET to hear how we can build worker and community power to transform local news. Featuring Alex Han k.e. harloe Andy Grimm and Vanessa Maria Graber. Make sure you RSVP here! bit.ly/maydaympc

Join members of Free Press' Media Power Collaborative for 'Building Worker and Community Power to Transform Local News.'

We'll hear from Alex Han In These Times, Kate Harloe Freelance Solidarity Project , Andy Grimm Chicago News Guild on the importance of organizing. #MayDay

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The FCC fined wireless carriers AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon for illegally sharing their customers' location data without their consent.

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How will the TikTok ban likely play out in the courts?

'A law targeting one platform like this violates the First Amendment and limits essential spaces for people to connect and communicate.' - Jenna Ruddock, Free Press policy counsel, via Mashable

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The The FCC's vote returns the internet to the American people.

'Public support for #netneutrality is overwhelming. People understand why we need a federal watchdog to protect access to the most essential communications platform of our time.'

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This Earth Day, over 7,000 people said: #heygooglecleanup !

We're tired of Google claiming to be green, while continuing to keep pollution spewing by lending their powerful cloud tech to Big Oil. This Earth Day, we're taking action.

Learn more: noclimateresultsfound.com

'There's little doubt that technology platforms are playing a critical role in elections around the globe... But do we know whether they're planning to improve efforts and more to protect elections in 2024?' - Nora Benavidez

READ 'Democracy Deferred': freepress.net/news/press-rel…

'This is an industry that requires a lot of scrutiny.'

Free Press co-CEO Craig Aaron is with Los Angeles Times discussing the importance to have set down the rules of the road for #NetNeutrality .

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The #TikTokBan 's swift passage was the first time a federal tech law has been approved in years. Can it be repeated?

'We are up against well-heeled industries that hold a lot of sway and donate a lot of money to campaigns.' - @jgo4justice via The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/04/25/tec…

The Reparative Journalism video series, which follows the lineage and scholarship of Free Press' Media 2070: Media Reparations Project project and #NewsVoices managing the effort, is a culmination of research on how journalism can engage in the process of media reparations.

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The failure of tech companies to stem the tide of election-related disinformation is alarming.

A new Free Press report analyzes what these platforms are doing during a critical election year: freepress.net/news/press-rel…

Big Oil is causing the climate crisis, but Big Tech companies like Google enable them to keep profiting at our expense.

On the Movement Organizing call, we talked about our plan to fight back. Check out everything our brilliant participants had to say! noclimateresultsfound.com

'The FCC's initiative goes well beyond the issue of net neutrality — it establishes a single federal standard for broadband and reclaims its authority over the technology.' - Free Press co-CEO Craig Aaron via Los Angeles Times #NetNeutrality latimes.com/business/story…

Tech platforms must stop giving anti-democratic extremists the tools to manipulate and misinform millions of voters.

A new Free Press report captures how these companies are falling short: freepress.net/news/press-rel…

Because we Free Press weren't busy enough with the #NetNeutrality win this morning, we decided to release a detailed analysis this afternoon on tech platforms' readiness to protect democracy in 2024. Check out our new report, Democracy Deferred: freepress.net/news/press-rel…