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WASHINGTON — In filings this week about the FCC’s forthcoming wireless-competition report, Free Press called out Chairman Ajit Pai for misrepresenting the state of broadband investment following the agency’s 2015 Net Neutrality ruling.

Net Neutrality advocates are planning two days of protest in Washington, D.C., this month as they fight plans to defang regulations designed to protect the open internet.

ProPublica is launching a “PAC” to scrutinize campaign ads on Facebook.

The author of a GAO report critical of the FCC’s Lifeline program said the Commission’s 2016 reforms may resolve some concerns of waste, fraud and abuse. Free Press Deputy Director Jessica Gonzalez called the report “outdated” and “sensationalized.”

Perceptions of waste and abuse in the subsidized Lifeline program often stem from “overblown, and frankly offensive” assumptions about poor and minority communities, a representative from Free Press told the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

WASHINGTON — What follows is the spoken text of Free Press Deputy Director and Senior Counsel Jessica J. González’s testimony today before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

WASHINGTON — In testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Free Press Deputy Director and Senior Counsel Jessica J. González will urge members of Congress to protect the FCC’s Lifeline program.

WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, Free Press submitted reply comments in the FCC’s latest Net Neutrality proceeding, calling out Chairman Ajit Pai for his dangerous scheme to dismantle vital open-internet protections.

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, Free Press filed its reply to last week’s Sinclair Broadcast Group merger filing at the FCC. Sinclair largely used its submission to attack organizations and individuals that asked the FCC to deny the proposed deal.

Sinclair Broadcast Group’s proposed $3.9 billion buyout of Tribune Media would raise prices for consumers, harm media diversity and consolidate too much power in the hands of a single corporate giant, threatening “the health of American democracy,” according to critics of the deal who are urging federal regulators to block the merger.