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The agency must conduct a thorough investigation of the roots of these outages. This is especially critical in light of the ever-worsening climate crisis.

In response to a barrage of disinformation on Spanish-language talk radio, a new media company has embarked on a push to control 18 radio stations.

Misinformation about the midterms offers another reminder of how conspiracy theories and distrust are shaping U.S. politics.

Fox News, Comcast and others have been working hard to sabotage the nomination of longtime public servant Gigi Sohn.

Civil-rights and civil-society leaders will hold an emergency press conference to announce an escalation of the #StopToxicTwitter campaign and to issue an urgent call to Twitter’s largest advertisers to pause their buys on the platform.

A coalition of advocacy groups is calling on Twitter’s top-20 advertisers to pull their ads if the company guts content moderation on the platform.

The call with civil-rights leaders came after a spike in antisemitism and racism on Twitter.

Musk’s comments came after a meeting with a handful of civil-rights and activist groups including Color Of Change, Free Press, the NAACP and ADL.

During the meeting, Free Press underscored the disproportionate harm that unmoderated social-media spaces inflict on women and people of color.

A Free Press report shows that tech platforms are ill-prepared for handling political disinformation ahead of the vote.