Hoy, más de 120 grupos de derechos civiles, democracia e interés público pidieron a las principales empresas de redes sociales que combatan y frenen la desinformación electoral en las plataformas antes de las elecciones de mitad de mandato de este año. En una carta a los directores ejecutivos de Meta, Twitter, YouTube, Snap, Instagram, TikTok y Alphabet, los grupos instaron a las plataformas a tomar una variedad de acciones específicas, entre ellas "introducir fricción para reducir la propagación y amplificación de la desinformación, la aplicación constante de políticas sólidas de integridad cívica; y una mayor...

“The ‘big lie’ about the 2020 election has metastasized, with disinformation about our elections used as a pretext for state laws making it harder for voters to cast their ballots,” said Karen Hobert Flynn, president of Common Cause, a watchdog group with chapters in 35 states.

President Biden's important speech today in Philadelphia about protecting the freedom to vote must be met with the Senate passing legislation before they depart for their August recess. We thank him for his bold remarks.

As the President said, there is an unfolding assault on democracy and on liberty today with clear attempts to suppress and subvert the freedom to vote in free and fair elections. Administrative action, litigation, and organizing are critical to combat this, but these tactics are not a substitute for...

El Comité de Abogados por los Derechos Civiles Bajo la Ley y sus abogados pro bono, Arnold & Porter LLP, presentaron una demanda esta tarde en un tribunal federal para el Distrito de Maryland en nombre de la Liga Urbana Nacional, Common Cause y la Liga de Mujeres Votantes de Estados Unidos contra el Director General de Correos Louis DeJoy y el Servicio Postal de los Estados Unidos, impugnando las acciones destinadas a interrumpir las elecciones de 2020 al dificultar la entrega a tiempo de las papeletas de voto por correo.

Americans expect and deserve more from their President in the midst of a pandemic and an economic crisis than a photo op and phony posturing at a golf club. Unwilling and unable to negotiate with Congress to deliver a relief package to a nation reeling from COVID-19, President Trump resorted to unconstitutional half measures that will do little to address the serious issues facing the nation.

As our nation grieves back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend, Common Cause calls attention to the increasing connections between recent mass killings in which the shooters claim, or are found to have been part of, fringe white supremacist groups.

Floridians expect and deserve to know that state and federal officials are taking proper precautions to safeguard the integrity of election systems. As a perennial election battleground state, we know that we are and will remain a target. New revelations that not one, but two Florida county election systems were breached by Russian hackers during the 2016 election cycle raise serious concerns that must be addressed by state officials and the U.S. Congress.

On Friday, Common Cause joined Prometheus Radio Project, Media Mobilizing Project, Free Press, Office of Communication, Inc. of the United Church of Christ, and National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians-Communications Workers of America in filing a reply brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit challenging the FCC’s elimination or relaxation of several media ownership rules. The rules prohibited a single entity from owning an excessive number of newspaper, radio, and television entities within a local market.