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Gigi Sohn speaks out on bitter FCC confirmation brawl for first time
For over a year, [Benton Senior Fellow and Public Advocate] Gigi Sohn stayed relatively silent as she faced a barrage of attacks over her nomination to the Federal Communications Commission, which had languished in the Senate since President Joe Biden tapped her in October 2021.
A former TikTok employee is secretly fighting the company on Capitol Hill (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 03/10/2023 - 06:34Opinion | Twitter was—and is—broken (Washington Post)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Wed, 03/08/2023 - 12:51
Biden FCC nominee withdraws, following bruising lobbying battle
President Biden’s pick to serve as a telecommunications regulator is withdrawing her nomination to the Federal Communications Commission, following a bitter 16-month lobbying battle that blocked her appointment and opened her up to relentless personal attacks. Gigi Sohn, a longtime public interest advocate and former Democratic FCC official who was first nominated by the White House in October 2021, said her decision to withdraw follows “unrelenti
Amazon’s belt-tightening affects towns across the US (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 03/07/2023 - 06:31Gigi Sohn won’t chair FCC if confirmed, White House official says (Washington Post)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Mon, 03/06/2023 - 12:17Opinion | A better kind of social media is possible — if we want it (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 03/06/2023 - 06:32Google conducting civil rights review, caving to years of pressure
Apparently, Google has quietly tapped an outside law firm to review how its services and policies impact civil rights and racial equity, following years of pressure from advocates and Democratic lawmakers to conduct such an assessment. The civil rights audit has been months in the making and is set to examine how the company’s diversity and inclusion policies and approach to content moderation may affect marginalized communities, including at its subsidiary YouTube.