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Access to broadband is receding. The reason? U.S. broadband rates are some of the most expensive in the world.

When the FCC approved the Charter-Time Warner Cable deal, it required Charter to refrain from imposing usage-based billing or interconnection fees for seven years.

Charter has asked the FCC to let it impose data caps on broadband users and seek interconnection payments from large online video providers.

A coalition of activist groups has started a campaign, “Stop Hate for Profit,” to force Facebook to change.

More than 40 groups and leaders urge the paper to deemphasize police narratives, lift up community perspectives and diversify its newsroom and leadership.

Free Press calculates that the United States has lost between 15,000 and 21,000 reporting jobs in the last 15 years.

The groups are urging big advertisers to pull spending from Facebook to protest what they say is the company’s failure to make its platform a less-hostile place.

The NAACP, Anti-Defamation League, Free Press and others say they are sick of waiting for changes.

The George Floyd protests have shown that police lie, constantly. It’s way past time for the media to stop aiding and abetting them.

The groups say the social network isn’t doing enough to curtail racist and violent content on its platform.