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An investigation carried out by the FCC’s own inspector general officially refutes controversial claims that a cyberattack was responsible for disrupting the agency’s comment system in May 2017.

The alleged cyberattack that briefly overwhelmed the FCC’s Electronic Comment Filing System in early May 2017 was actually a deluge of public comments.

With conservative local-TV behemoth Sinclair Broadcast Group’s unprecedented expansion plan now in sudden peril, advocates are warning that the fight for local news is far from over.

Lawmakers have responded to a crisis in local news coverage by dedicating public money to fund journalism in what is believed to be the first effort of its kind.

A coalition of groups has collected more than 300,000 signatures and will deliver them to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

Free Press is disappointed that this panel of judges refused to rule on the FCC’s phony math and poor excuses for the obsolete and harmful UHF discount.

A federal court rejected a lawsuit against the FCC seeking to overturn the agency’s decision to effectively raise the limit on the number of local television stations a company can own.

Without Net Neutrality, large phone and cable companies will take control of the stories we tell, deciding who gets a voice and who doesn’t.

The appeals court said that the plaintiffs in the case, including the public-interest group Free Press, lacked standing, but said that it did not consider the merits of the case.

The decision may have arrived too late for Sinclair’s proposed bid for Tribune — though it could help other suitors for the Chicago-based broadcaster.