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President Obama Must Shut Down Organizing for Action
President Obama Must Shut Down Organizing for Action
President’s Inaction Leaves FEC a Lame Duck
South Carolina voting machine failure underscores need for swift federal action for voting security
Statement of Ben Wilcox on Florida Secretary of State’s Actions on Redistricting Reform Measure
Declaración de Chellie Pingree, presidenta de Common Cause, sobre la medida adoptada hoy por la FCC en materia de propiedad de los medios de comunicación
Wisconsin Governor’s Actions Reflect Agenda of his Largest Donors
Wisconsin Governor's Actions Reflect Agenda of his Largest Donors
Tech Policy Press (Op-Ed): Meeting the Moment: Action Congress Can Take Now to Combat Election Disinformation
Congressional action alone cannot solve the problem. A holistic approach to holding platforms accountable also requires regulatory reform, executive action, and corporate accountability. The White House must continue to push relevant federal agencies to use their enforcement, rule-making, and investigatory authorities to go after some of the most harmful business practices of the big tech companies – invasive data collection, inconsistent content moderation, discriminatory uses of algorithms, and more.
The new year...
The new year...
The Hill (Op-Ed): The For the People Act is the bold legislative action we need to fight election disinformation
In our democracy, we deserve to have political debates based in truth, but as we saw in the 2020 election, Americans are increasingly dealt a deluge of disinformation that comes at them in all forms: online, television ads, and from politicians and our elected officials themselves. If we are going to have a real democracy that is truly of, by, and for the people, then we need solutions and accountability to combat the growing cancer of disinformation. We can start with a bill moving through Congress right now: the For the People Act.
The Guardian: Biden promised bold action. Will his efforts to compromise get in the way?
“We have a roadmap as to how [McConnell] has operated in the past, which is to be a one-man blockade,” said Stephen Spaulding, a senior counsel at Common Cause, a liberal government reform group. “He will abuse the filibuster rule to demand supermajority votes on nearly every piece of the majority’s agenda. I think we can anticipate that.”
