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For years, federal agencies have exploited legal loopholes to purchase massive amounts of personal information sold by data merchants who harvest sensitive material from cellphone and internet users.

Sen. Klobuchar’s antitrust bill is supposed to promote competition. So why are advocates afraid it could also promote extremists?

Progressive groups like Free Press expressed concern that certain provisions in the legislation would make it more difficult for platforms to combat disinformation.

Free Press and others are concerned that a provision in the bill is overly broad and would prevent companies from removing harmful content from their platforms.

A host on the right-wing network told viewers that OANN “is now at war with AT&T,” which has a 70-percent stake in DIRECTV.

Free Press and others have argued that tech companies should pay more in taxes, with some of those tax revenues earmarked for support of quality journalism.

Calls for the TV provider to sever its arrangements with OANN reached a fever pitch in recent months.

OAN has come under fire for disseminating falsehoods about the 2020 election results, the coronavirus pandemic and other major issues.

Without DIRECTV as a distribution platform, OAN will lose an overwhelming majority of its revenue.

Here are three lessons about how closely intertwined journalism and organizing are.