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As the midterm elections approach, the Big Lie is thriving.

Vanessa Maria Graber is the News Voices director at Free Press, where she brings local communities and newsrooms together.

Progressive groups like Free Press urged the agency to swiftly implement digital privacy measures that would shield internet users from predatory data practices.

There’s an urgent need for the agency to establish clear rules against abusive data practices that undermine civil rights and sabotage access to opportunities.

Free Press Action’s Nora Benavidez discussed how the business models of social-media companies “threaten to destabilize our democracy by amplifying lies and calls for violence.”

Social-media companies have taken steps to restrict Russian state-media accounts. But posts from those accounts still spread in non-English languages and in places outside the West.

Here’s what Congress has left to do on tech policy later this year, and how likely it is to get done.

The Trump FCC gave Elon Musk’s Starlink nearly a billion in subsidies.

Media 2070 is focused on documenting anti-Blackness in journalism and transforming who has the capital to tell their own stories over the next 50 years.

The bill has the support of media and democracy advocates, with Free Press Action VP Matt Wood noting that the pandemic has shown us how “absolutely crucial” internet access is.