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WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission sent letters urging AT&T and Verizon to explain why their programs favoring affiliated video services do not violate the agency’s Net Neutrality rules, which protect internet users against unreasonable discrimination by broadband providers.

Free Press and the Free Press Action Fund launched a campaign to set aside proceeds from the auction of public TV station licenses to strengthen local journalism and community-information projects.

WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, the Justice Department filed suit against AT&T and its subsidiary DIRECTV for allegedly acting as “ringleaders” in an illegal campaign to block wide carriage of a cable-TV channel owned by the Los Angeles Dodgers.

WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, 18 digital-rights, social-justice and consumer-advocacy groups representing tens of millions of people sent a letter to Secretary Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump urging the presidential candidates to reject the proposed AT&T-Time Warner merger and oppose growing monopoly power in America.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission voted to adopt rules giving internet users more choice over whether and how broadband providers use private information.

WASHINGTON — According to media reports, AT&T Inc. is negotiating to buy Time Warner Inc. in a merger that could be worth more than $85 billion. The deal would bring together one of the nation’s largest phone and internet providers with an entertainment media colossus that includes CNN, HBO, TBS, TNT and Warner Brothers studios, among other properties.

WASHINGTON — On Monday, Free Press delivered nearly 25,000 petitions to the office of the North Dakota State’s Attorney demanding that authorities drop all charges against Democracy Now! journalist Amy Goodman and anyone else covering the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline project.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission released key details on the broadband-privacy rules likely to come up for a vote at the agency’s Oct. 27 meeting. The proposal builds on the FCC’s 2015 decision to reclassify broadband access as a telecom service under Title II of the Communications Act.

WASHINGTON — On Monday, Free Press joined other open internet advocacy organizations and allies in filing a joint response with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals supporting that court’s June 2016 decision to uphold the Federal Communications Commission’s Net Neutrality rules.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission delayed a scheduled vote on new rules for set-top boxes. Customers collectively spend billions every year to rent such boxes from their cable-TV providers.