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Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson issued a warning letter to Apple, calling on the company to review its curation of news articles to see if its Apple News is freezing out media outlets on the right, and to take “corrective action” if that is the case. Chairman Ferguson cites a study from Media Research Center, a conservative watchdog group, that has been monitoring the news choices on Apple News. According to MRC, in January, Apple News “refrained from using any right-leaning outlets in the top 20 articles of its morning editions between Jan. 1 and Jan.

When President Trump endorsed Nexstar‘s proposed merger with Tegna, which would create a broadcast giant reaching 80 percent of the country, it scrambled a feverish Washington (DC) lobbying effort over a transaction that has gotte

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr announced a review of the relationships between broadcast networks and their affiliates, calling into question contractual restrictions that penalize stations for pre-empting shows and those that prevent them from airing rival programming.

Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel hopes the outcome of the 2022 midterm elections will help break the longstanding 2-2 tie on the regulatory commission, but she also defended the body’s deadlocked body’s record during her leadership. “We’ve turned the noise down, and turned up the number of things we’re getting done,” she said, alluding to the commission’s profile under her predecessor as chair, Ajit Pai. At the behest of former President Trump, Pai spearheaded a series of dramatic rollbacks of longstanding media rules when the five-member commission tilted 3-