One uber-wealthy family should not be in charge of so much of our media ecosystem.
If regulators let this deal go through, the Ellison family will control CBS, CNN, HBO, Discovery, Nickelodeon and a major share of TikTok.
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Free Press Action & 90 civil-society groups call on Democratic leaders to stand firm against White House efforts to extend government surveillance powers under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) without new safeguards.
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Big Tech and Big Media donated some $63 million to a Trump-aligned nonprofit that was set up to help finance Trump's presidential library.
Now the nonprofit has disappeared and with it the money.
Three guesses on where it's gone.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Happening today!
Journalists are meant to cover the government, not take marching orders from it.
There's a very real chance Trump and the DOJ will step out of the way and just let Paramount take over Warner Bros. Discovery.
Free Press' @mattfieldwood.bsky.social gives the latest updates on the merger madness:
🚨 Another journalist arrested.
Estefany Rodríguez is a reporter in Nashville who has covered immigration enforcement and its impact on the immigrant community.
Now, she's the one detained.
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New Poll!
Demand Progress and @dataforprogress.org found that Americans do not support the Trump admin’s plans to force AI companies to let them use their tech for military and surveillance.
Pressing Issues spoke with Joel Coxander, an immigration attorney at MIRA Legal, who along with the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC), is representing Rodríguez Florez.
Read more from that interview here: pressingissues.org/ice-detains-...
Free Press' @attorneynora.bsky.social examined the Trump administration’s hostile relationship with dissent and free expression in 2025 for her report CHOKEHOLD.
A must-read: www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...
Rodriguez’s detention is part of a broader erosion of democratic norms and human rights in the United States.
A coalition of 46 press-freedom Groups call for her immediate release: www.freepress.net/news/coaliti...
“The U.S. government is relentless in its attacks on dissent. Rodriguez was in a marked news van when taken by ICE, having fearlessly covered immigration for local Nashville audiences for months. It is no surprise ICE arrested her." - @attorneynora.bsky.social
➡️: www.freepress.net/news/coaliti...
ICE claims to have a warrant. Her lawyers say it was First Amendment retaliation.
"A day before she was detained, Rodríguez covered a series of ICE raids for Nashville Noticias, the Spanish-language outlet for which she works." - @columjournreview.bsky.social
➡️ www.cjr.org/analysis/est...
🚨 Another journalist arrested.
Estefany Rodríguez is a reporter in Nashville who has covered immigration enforcement and its impact on the immigrant community.
Now, she's the one detained.
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As allies push to free Nashville Noticias reporter Estefany María Rodríguez Florez, attorneys argue that her arrest and detention violate the First Amendment.
Free Press' @juliorvarela.com reports on the chilling impacts on journalists who report on or criticize ICE on today's Pressings Issues:
We are calling on ICE to immediately release journalist Estefany Rodriguez, who has covered immigration, including ICE actions, for the Spanish-language news site Nashville Noticias.
Read the letter we signed with 40 other press freedom and civil society groups: www.freepress.net/news/coaliti...
Wisconsin friends: Important bill moving in the state Senate that could shield reporters and private citizens from bogus lawsuits designed to silence and punish them.
wisconsinwatch.org/2026/03/wisc...
Deals of such a massive scale are never a good thing.
It’s best to doubt the hype churned out by the few bankers, lawyers, owners and politicians who benefit financially and politically from such bloated corporate combinations.
More from @timkarr.bsky.social:
www.freepress.net/blog/five-wa...
Deals of such a massive scale are never a good thing.
It’s best to doubt the hype churned out by the few bankers, lawyers, owners and politicians who benefit financially and politically from such bloated corporate combinations.
More from @timkarr.bsky.social:
www.freepress.net/blog/five-wa...
Free Press is working to take this fight elsewhere, but we need your help.
Sign the petition to put pressure on regulators to block the Paramount Skydance/Warner Bros. Discovery merger.
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Journalists are meant to cover the government, not take marching orders from it.
There's a very real chance Trump and the DOJ will step out of the way and just let Paramount take over Warner Bros. Discovery.
Free Press' @mattfieldwood.bsky.social gives the latest updates on the merger madness:
The message behind their money is clear:
“Give us military and surveillance contracts and we’ll help spread Trump’s authoritarian gospel to billions of people who use our platforms every day.”
More from FP's @timkarr.bsky.social:
www.freepress.net/blog/big-tec...
Utility bills are far from the only issue driving resistance to hyperscale data center projects across the country.
"Overwhelmingly, the energy infrastructure powering the tech industry's rapid build-out of power-hungry data centers is dirty." - @ruddock.bsky.social via @techpolicypress.bsky.social
My colleague @juliorvarela.com wrote this breaking piece about ICE detaining *another* journalist for their work covering ICE: pressingissues.org/ice-detains-...
Utility bills are far from the only issue driving resistance to hyperscale data center projects across the country.
"Overwhelmingly, the energy infrastructure powering the tech industry's rapid build-out of power-hungry data centers is dirty." - @ruddock.bsky.social via @techpolicypress.bsky.social
As allies push to free Nashville Noticias reporter Estefany María Rodríguez Florez, attorneys argue that her arrest and detention violate the First Amendment.
Free Press' @juliorvarela.com reports on the chilling impacts on journalists who report on or criticize ICE on today's Pressings Issues:
Coalition of 41 press-freedom groups, incl. @freedom.press and @freepress.bsky.social, calls for immediate release of Nashville-based journalist Estefany Rodriguez arrested by ICE
INN has joined a coalition of 41 press-freedom groups demanding that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immediately release journalist Estefany Rodriguez.
Read the statement from @freepress.bsky.social: www.freepress.net/download/pre...
Estefany Rodriguez was in a marked news van when she was taken by ICE, having fearlessly covered immigration for local Nashville audiences for months.
Free Press joins 40+ press freedom, human rights groups condemning her detention.
Our statement:
We @freepress.bsky.social worked with 40 other press freedom, human rights groups condemning ICE arrest & detention of Estefany Rodriguez. Read our coalition statement: www.freepress.net/news/coaliti...
