Center for Public Integrity
Under President Trump, Millions of Poor Lose Access to Cell Phones
The Federal Communications Commission began subsidizing home phone lines in 1985 to provide “the opportunities and security that phone service brings” to people who cannot afford it, according to the FCC’s website. The Lifeline program started including cellphone plans in 2005. Currently, subscribers receive $9.25 per month to put toward a discounted cellphone plan designed by provider companies. For some, that means a cap of 250 voice minutes and 2 GB of mobile data.
The Pentagon has prepared a cyber attack against Russia if country interferes in 2018 election (Center for Public Integrity)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 11/02/2018 - 11:55How a billionaire from another state could influence your elections (Center for Public Integrity)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 10/18/2018 - 12:19John Dunbar to step down as CEO of the Center for Public Integrity (Center for Public Integrity)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 09/06/2018 - 15:30Social media: Where voices of hate find a place to preach
On Twitter, David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, sometimes tweets more than 30 times a day to nearly 50,000 followers, recently calling for the “chasing down” of specific black Americans and claiming the LGBTQ community is in need of “intensive psychiatric treatment.” On Facebook, James Allsup, a right-wing advocate, posted a photo comparing migrant children at the border to Jewish people behind a fence during the Holocaust with the caption, “They present it like it’s a bad thing #BuildTheWall.” On Gab, a censorship-free alternative to Twitter, former 2018 candidate for US S
Editorial: Center for Public Integrity Board of Directors condemns President Trump’s attacks on the press (Center for Public Integrity)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 08/16/2018 - 09:15
Inside John Bolton Super PAC’s deal with Cambridge Analytica
Longtime John Bolton adviser Mark Groombridge says that Bolton needed billionaire Robert Mercer’s attention and support — so badly, Bolton spent more than $1 million of his John Bolton Super PAC’s money on “comically bad” data from Mercer’s now-defunct voter profiling firm, Cambridge Analytica, which Mercer backed financially.. Mercer pumped $5 million into the John Bolton Super PAC from 2014 to 2017, the largest sum of any single donor.
The Center for Public Integrity's stance on registering as a political publisher on Facebook (Center for Public Integrity)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 07/02/2018 - 12:06Federal officials struggle to drag political ad rules into the internet age
During a daylong public hearing, the Federal Election Commission’s four remaining commissioners — two seats are vacant because President Donald Trump hasn’t appointed anyone to fill them — couldn’t find consensus on how to best drag federal political ad regulations into the Internet age. “I don’t think we’ve gotten very far,” FEC Chairwoman Caroline Hunter, a Republican, said two hours into the hearing, which featured testimony from 12 representatives of think tanks, activist groups and legal organizations.