Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

October 29, 2021 at 4:37 PM

3 days left: double your impact to fight disinformation

Free Press Help us raise $10,000 by Oct. 31. Friend — There are just 3 days left to reach our $10,000 match goal. As news continues to break about the staggering range of Facebook’s abuses, will you donate today to have TWICE the impact on our fight against disinformation? Thank…

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  Heather Franklin, Free Press · [email protected]

October 27, 2021 at 7:44 PM

It’s time to bring back Net Neutrality

Free Press Act now: Urge the Senate to confirm Biden’s FCC nominees Friend, EXCELLENT NEWS: President Biden has at long last nominated two strong advocates to staff the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Yesterday he named Jessica Rosenworcel as chairwoman, a position sh…

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

October 26, 2021 at 11:15 PM

Burn the Patriot Act

Free Press Twenty years later, the Patriot Act must go. Friend, Passed 20 years ago today in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Patriot Act set the stage for a massive wave of unwarranted surveillance in the United States — and people of color have borne the brunt of it. Tel…

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

October 25, 2021 at 6:25 PM

FWD: Breaking: Another Facebook whistleblower

Free Press Another Facebook whistleblower has come forward. Congress needs to act. Friend, The news about Facebook just keeps getting worse. Late Friday, a new whistleblower came forward to provide further proof that the company allows hate and disinformation to spread unchecked. And over th…

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

October 23, 2021 at 12:58 PM

The Facebook news is getting even worse

Free Press Another Facebook whistleblower has come forward. Congress needs to act. Friend, Last night, The Washington Post broke the news that another Facebook whistleblower has come forward.1 These latest whistleblower revelations confirm what many of us have been sounding the …

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  Nora, Free Press · [email protected]

October 22, 2021 at 2:18 PM

[FWD:] Make AT&T answer for OANN [Make 2X the impact]

Free Press We can’t afford to leave a dollar of this match on the table. Friend — I wanted to make sure you saw Heather’s note below because we need help from supporters like you to take on companies as powerful as AT&T. With a generous donor doubling every gift to help us fight disinform…

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  Heather Franklin, Free Press · [email protected]

October 21, 2021 at 6:35 PM

Make AT&T answer for OANN [Make 2X the impact]

Free Press Only 10 days left to reach $10,000. Fight disinformation now. Friend — Earlier this month, we learned that AT&T executives helped build the far-right disinformation machine One America News Network (OANN) in 2013. Since then, the telecommunications giant has given …

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  Heather Franklin, Free Press · [email protected]

October 17, 2021 at 2:07 PM

AT&T did what?!

Free Press Your members of Congress need to hear from you today. Friend, AT&T helped build the far-right television network One America News Network (OANN), which spreads racist disinformation every day and was a megaphone for Trump throughout his presidency. Meanwhile, DIRECTV, which is…

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  Heather Franklin, Free Press · [email protected]

October 16, 2021 at 1:08 PM

AT&T did what?!

Free Press Your members of Congress need to hear from you today. The hateful One America News Network (OANN) wouldn’t exist without support from AT&T and DIRECTV. Tell these companies to drop OANN now. Friend, Last week, Reuters released a bombshell report1 revealing that …

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

October 12, 2021 at 7:07 PM

[FWD:] Demand tech transparency now

Free Press Disinformation is even worse in Spanish. Friend, Free Press spent the past couple of months working with a producer at Last Week Tonight with John Oliver to help shape this week’s segment on how online platforms do very little to combat disinformation in languages other than Engli…

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

October 10, 2021 at 3:14 PM

Demand tech transparency now

Free Press Disinformation is even worse in Spanish. Friend, Disinformation and hate about COVID-19, our democracy and each other continues to spread across social-media platforms — while companies continue to profit. Without any transparency and accountability, companies like Fa…

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  Heather Franklin, Free Press · [email protected]

October 9, 2021 at 1:07 PM

AT&T did what?!

Free Press Your members of Congress need to hear from you today. Friend, AT&T helped build the far-right television network One America News Network (OANN), which spreads racist disinformation every day and was a megaphone for Trump throughout his presidency. Meanwhile, DIRECTV, which is…

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  Heather Franklin, Free Press · [email protected]

October 8, 2021 at 2:55 PM

AT&T did what?!

Free Press Your members of Congress need to hear from you today. The hateful One America News Network (OANN) wouldn’t exist without support from AT&T and DIRECTV. Tell these companies to drop OANN now. Friend, BREAKING: Reuters has released a bombshell report1 revealing t…

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  Nora, Free Press · [email protected]

October 8, 2021 at 12:21 AM

You can help us keep Facebook on the run

Free Press This is a critical moment. We can’t afford to miss our $10K goal. Friend — For decades, big tobacco companies had hard evidence that their products caused cancer — but they lied and spread disinformation about the health impacts of smoking, putting their profits above …

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  Heather Franklin, Free Press · [email protected]

October 6, 2021 at 6:21 PM

A dollar-per-minute phone call in 2021?!

Free Press Your members of Congress need to hear from you today. Friend, We’re writing with exciting news: Today a bill that would curb the abusive rates of prison-phone companies has a hearing in the House of Representatives! Prison-phone rates are astronomical and deeply unju…

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

October 5, 2021 at 2:44 PM

[FWD:] Facebook can’t regulate itself

Free Press Facebook wasn’t working for people long before today Friend, Thanks to a whistleblower who is testifying in Congress right now, we have hard proof that Facebook cares far more about boosting its profits than protecting the safety of its users. That’s why we’re demanding that Congr…

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

October 4, 2021 at 11:02 PM

Facebook was down — but we’re up for a fight

Free Press Facebook wasn’t working for people long before today Friend, We’ve known for years that social media and tech platforms are vectors for extremism, racism, misogyny, lies and violence. And guess what? It ends up Facebook knew, too. Sign our petition demanding that Cong…

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

October 1, 2021 at 11:15 PM

This happened yesterday

Free Press We only have till Oct. 31. Can you help? Friend — Yesterday I hitched a ride on the truck we’d hired as it slowly circled Facebook’s D.C. headquarters and Capitol Hill with a billboard reading “Facebook must close Trump’s ad loophole”. This happened right after we deli…

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

September 30, 2021 at 8:03 PM

Help us give Facebook hell

Free Press I’m really over Facebook. Are you with us? Friend — I’m sick of Facebook. Day after day, we see troves of disinformation — ranging from vaccine conspiracy theories to racist lies about the 2020 election — spreading unchecked across the platform. But at least Facebook …

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  Collette, Free Press · [email protected]

September 29, 2021 at 6:38 PM

We’re live and answering your Qs

Free Press Join us for a Facebook Live conversation about the ad loophole Trump is exploiting on Facebook. Friend, Donald Trump’s accounts on Facebook and Instagram were suspended the day after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, an attack he helped spark — and has continued…

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

September 28, 2021 at 7:59 PM

Our plan to stop disinformation

Free Press Help put an end to disinformation Friend — Fed up. That’s how I’d describe the sentiment of all of us who have been fighting for years to stop the digital disinformation that divides us, hurts our families, threatens our democracy and exhausts our health-care workers.…

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

September 23, 2021 at 6:49 PM

[FWD:] We found a way to mess with Mark

Free Press Facebook doesn’t care about its impact on our society. Friend, A leak exposing Facebook’s research about its platforms proves what we have known for a long time: The company doesn’t care about its impact on our society — so long as it makes a profit. We have the power to make or…

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

September 22, 2021 at 8:17 PM

We all deserve to log off

Free Press Facebook doesn’t care about its impact on our society. Take the pledge to log out of Facebook and Instagram on Nov. 10: Sign up now. Friend, The recent leak of Facebook’s own research about its platforms proves what we have known for a long time: Facebook doesn’t ca…

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

September 16, 2021 at 9:49 PM

[FWD:] The government shouldn’t be able to access your location

Free Press Our privacy and civil rights are at stake. Friend, If you have a smartphone or tablet, chances are that federal agencies like ICE, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the FBI know where you are right now. That’s because these agencies are exploiting a loophole in the law. A n…

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

September 14, 2021 at 11:14 PM

The government shouldn’t be able to access your location

Free Press Our privacy and civil rights are at stake. Friend, If you have a smartphone or tablet, chances are that federal agencies know where you are right now. Agencies like ICE, U.S Customs and Border Protection, the FBI and others are buying sensitive data, including locati…

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  Collette, Free Press · [email protected]

September 9, 2021 at 10:08 PM

#Media2070Cookout

Media 2070 | Media Reparations: An Invitation to Dream Join us live: We’re cooking up a #RecipeForReparations. A Project of Free Press Hi Friend, This week, we launched a series of actions to get the Federal Communications Commission to investigate its role in perpetuati…

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  Collette, Free Press · [email protected]

September 8, 2021 at 9:10 PM

[FWD:] Racism in the media

Media 2070 | Media Reparations: An Invitation to Dream Newsrooms alone are not responsible for the racism that exists in our media system. Friend, The Federal Communications Commission has passed policies that have prevented Black people and other communities of color from owning media outl…

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  Collette, Free Press · [email protected]

September 7, 2021 at 5:15 PM

On the path to justice

Media 2070 | Media Reparations: An Invitation to Dream Newsrooms alone are not responsible for the racism that exists in our media system. A Project of Free Press Before we can move forward on the path to justice, we must first acknowledge the harm that’s been done. Join …

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  Heather Franklin, Free Press · [email protected]

September 5, 2021 at 3:29 PM

[FWD:] Tell the FTC: Hold T-Mobile accountable

Free Press T-Mobile’s had five data breaches in three years. Friend, T-Mobile’s CEO claims that the company cares about protecting people’s personal data — but the company has experienced one data breach after the other, and in August a hacker stole the Social security numbers, birthdates a…

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  Heather Franklin, Free Press · [email protected]

September 4, 2021 at 1:05 PM

Tell the FTC: Hold T-Mobile accountable

Free Press T-Mobile’s had five data breaches in three years. Friend, What would you do if your Social Security number, birthdate and driver’s-license number were stolen? That’s the horrifying question that more than 50 million people (perhaps even you) woke up to last month whe…

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  Lucia, Free Press · [email protected]

September 2, 2021 at 9:12 PM

[FWD:] A lesson in the wake of Hurricane Ida

Free Press The ability to communicate during a disaster is a life-and-death matter. Friend, Hurricane Ida left large swaths of Louisiana without reliable cellphone services, and more than 300,000 homes lost cable and wireline services. The region’s 911 call center was knocked out as well: …

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  Lucia, Free Press · [email protected]

September 1, 2021 at 11:14 PM

A lesson in the wake of Hurricane Ida

Free Press The ability to communicate during a disaster is a life-and-death matter. Friend, Hurricane Ida left large swaths of Louisiana without reliable cellphone services, including the complete loss of services in two of the parishes directly in the storm’s path…

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  Collette, Free Press · [email protected]

August 26, 2021 at 11:14 PM

Update on Media 2070 & the fight for reparations

Media 2070 | Media Reparations: An Invitation to Dream Real steps toward antiracist media A Project of Free Press Media 2070 is a project of Free Press. Friend — The Media 2070 project — founded and led by Free Press’ Black staff caucus — has been deepening our efforts to…

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

August 23, 2021 at 2:14 PM

Explained: Big Tech’s pattern of blocking oversight

Free Press It’s not just Facebook. Friend, Facebook has been running a massive ad campaign asserting that it wants nothing more than for Congress to pass updated internet regulations. And Free Press has helped push through meaningful changes this past year at the biggest social…

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

August 19, 2021 at 6:00 PM

Is the Trump ban real?

Free Press Team Trump has spent $220,000 on Facebook ads. Trump’s PAC is still buying ads on Facebook — even though the platform banned Trump for spewing disinformation and hate. Tell Facebook to enforce its own rules and close the Trump ad loophole for good. Friend, When I l…

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

August 17, 2021 at 7:13 PM

[FWD:] T-Mobile is still propping up Fox News

Free Press Stop Fox’s hate-and-lies-for-profit business model. Friend, Last summer, T-Mobile and other companies pulled their ads from Tucker Carlson Tonight in a (seemingly sincere) protest over his latest round of racist remarks. But in reality, T-Mobile was doing little more than posturin…

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

August 16, 2021 at 11:06 PM

T-Mobile is still propping up Fox News

Free Press Stop Fox’s hate-and-lies-for-profit business model. Friend, Here we are in the midst of another COVID-19 surge — this time primarily among people who’ve been convinced by a steady flood of pandemic and vaccine disinformation. It has been jaw-dropping to see some Fox …

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  Jessica at Free Press · [email protected]

August 14, 2021 at 6:13 PM

The infrastructure bill is historic

Free Press You helped make this moment possible. Friend — I wanted to make sure you saw Craig’s message below about the infrastructure bill. With nearly $65 billion in funding for broadband deployment and affordability measures, this is a truly historic bill. And, if I may brag for a moment,…

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

August 13, 2021 at 9:21 PM

[FWD:] Facebook is suppressing independent oversight

Free Press We need more, not less, transparency. Friend, Mark Zuckerberg thinks he can hide the truth from us by denying NYU researchers the ability to investigate and expose Facebook’s hate-and-lie-for-profit business model. With your help we can make Facebook accountable. Take Action: Don…

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

August 12, 2021 at 8:33 PM

Act Now: Facebook is suppressing oversight

Free Press We need more, not less, transparency. Friend — Mark Zuckerberg claims he wants legislation to rein in Facebook, but he’s shown his true self yet again: Last week, Facebook kicked top researchers from NYU’s Cybersecurity for Democracy team off their platform in an atte…

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  Collette, Free Press · [email protected]

August 11, 2021 at 6:39 PM

We’re live and answering your Qs

Free Press Join us for a Facebook Live conversation about the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. Friend, The FCC aims to allocate $9.2 billion to 180 broadband providers to bring internet access to 5.2 million “unserved” homes and businesses in rural areas across the United…

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  Craig Aaron, Free Press · [email protected]

August 10, 2021 at 10:41 PM

The infrastructure bill is historic

Free Press You helped make this moment possible. Friend — After months of hard work from Free Press Action’s policy team, working in close coordination with our allies in Congress, the Senate just passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a $1.2-trillion deal negotiated …

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

August 5, 2021 at 5:07 PM

[FWD:] Does Facebook want to stop online hate?

Free Press Trump may be off Facebook, but his ads are not. Friend, Think Trump was banned from Facebook? We’ve found a Facebook ad loophole that allows Trump and his Super PAC to dodge the rules and continue posting dangerous messages. Tell Facebook to enforce its own policies — and close …

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

August 4, 2021 at 5:41 PM

Does Facebook want to stop online hate?

Free Press Trump may be off Facebook, but his ads are not. Trump was kicked off Facebook for good reason. But his ads are still there. Tell Facebook to enforce its own policies and stop Trump and his PAC from running political ads on the platform. Friend, $30,617. That’s how m…

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

August 2, 2021 at 7:06 PM

Facebook continues to profit from Trump

Free Press Trump may be off Facebook, but his ads are not. Friend, Think Trump was banned from Facebook? We’ve found a Facebook ad loophole that allows Trump and his Super PAC to dodge the rules and continue posting dangerous messages. Tell Facebook to enforce its own policies — and close …

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  Rose, Free Press · [email protected]

July 31, 2021 at 1:14 PM

Trump found a loophole

Free Press Trump may be off Facebook, but his ads are not. Trump was kicked off Facebook for good reason. But his ads are still there. Tell Facebook to enforce its own policies and stop Trump and his PAC from running political ads on the platform. Friend, Donald Trump may be o…

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  Candace at Free Press · [email protected]

July 23, 2021 at 2:03 PM

[FWD:] “They’re killing people”

Free Press Disinformation is deadly. Friend, Last week, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared that online misinformation about COVID-19 “poses an imminent and insidious threat to our nation’s health” — and President Biden called out Facebook for allowing lies to spread. These developments s…

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  Heather Franklin, Free Press · [email protected]

July 22, 2021 at 5:26 PM

The infrastructure bill is coming ...

Free Press … sooner than you may think! Friend — With the Biden administration’s push for much-needed infrastructure spending, 2021 could prove to be a historic year for the United States. With the right investments, this package could make internet access actually affordable fo…

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  Candace at Free Press · [email protected]

July 20, 2021 at 10:07 PM

“They’re killing people”

Free Press Disinformation is deadly. Friend — “They’re killing people.” That’s what President Biden said last week of Facebook’s failure to crack down on COVID-19 misinformation.1 This followed the unprecedented step taken by Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, who declared that onlin…

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  Alicia Bell, Free Press · [email protected]

July 16, 2021 at 9:04 PM

The legacy of Ida B. Wells

Media 2070 | Media Reparations: An Invitation to Dream Ida challenged the media to tell Black truths. A Project of Free Press Media 2070 is a project of Free Press. Friend — Today, we celebrate the birthday of pioneering anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells, who cha…

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