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Will the Sprint and T-Mobile merger create competition?
A Q&A with Benton Senior Fellow Gigi Sohn.
How propaganda works in the digital age. It has evolved, and it’s transforming politics. (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 10/18/2019 - 12:21Sen Elizabeth Warren raised 5 times as much money from Big Tech as Joe Biden did (Vox)
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The FCC has voted to approve the T-Mobile-Sprint merger
The Federal Communications Commission formally approved the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint. The vote comes months after the Justice Department greenlit the deal. Now, the T-Mobile-Sprint deal faces one more battle. A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general are still trying to block the deal through a multistate lawsuit, and representatives from the two companies said that they won’t close the merger until that is resolved.
Why social networks keep tripping over their own content moderation policies (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 06:43Twitter Stands by President Trump Amid Calls to Terminate His Account
Twitter will continue to be lenient with world leaders who appeared to violate its policies against violent speech because the company believes preserving those tweets served the public interest. “The accounts of world leaders are not above our policies entirely,” the company said in a blog post.