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Facebook and other top social-media networks claim they’ve stepped up moderation and fact-checking in preparation for the midterms. But these efforts are disastrously insufficient.

A scathing report from Free Press offers a dim assessment of tech companies’ plans to protect the 2022 midterms.

“The U.S. Senate gets an ‘F’ in FCC,” said Free Press Action Internet Campaign Director Heather Franklin.

Few of the lawmakers responding to the national journalism crisis seem willing to focus relief efforts where they’re needed most.

The proliferation of alternative social-media sites has helped cement false and misleading information as a defining feature of American politics.

Free Press Co-CEO Craig Aaron called Salem Media “one of the most powerful forces in conservative media that hardly anyone knows about.”

In this episode, Free Press VP Collette Watson explains the mission of Media 2070, a project created to bring racial equity into the media.

“The companies lobbying against Gigi Sohn are simply trying to do one thing: keep the FCC deadlocked for as long as possible,” said Free Press Action’s Joshua Stager.

Experts are worried, based on Musk’s comments on how speech should be moderated on social media.

Social-media platforms’ failure to eradicate the false information amounts to aiding and abetting disenfranchisement, advocates say.