by UCC Media Justice | Jul 18, 2026 | Blog, Featured, Online Accountability, Open and Affordable Communications
On July 15, a federal judge issued a mixed ruling in National Digital Inclusion Alliance v. Trump, the case we supported with an amicus brief joined by 22 organizations. The good news: the court agreed that the Administration must implement the Digital Equity Act. The...
by Cheryl Leanza | Jul 15, 2026 | Blog, Featured, Media Concentration, Media Diversity, Open and Affordable Communications
Today, the FCC announced it wants to eliminate the 39% national television ownership cap, the same law we’ve been fighting to enforce in filings at the FCC and in our case against the Nexstar/TEGNA merger. We filed a 143-page petition to block that deal, took the FCC...
by Cheryl Leanza | May 13, 2026 | Blog, Online Accountability, Open and Affordable Communications
One year ago, President Trump declared the Digital Equity Act “unconstitutional” and “racist and illegal” in a post on Truth Social. The next day, the Department of Commerce sent cancellation letters to every grantee. Trump’s claim is false. The Digital Equity Act is...
by Sara Cederberg | May 7, 2026 | Blog, Featured, Online Accountability, Open and Affordable Communications
AI systems already decide who gets a job interview, who qualifies for a loan, who gets flagged by police, and who gets cut off from government benefits. UCC Media Justice wrote about this in December when endorsing the AI Civil Rights Act. Without safeguards, this...
by Sara Cederberg | Dec 23, 2025 | Blog, Communications Justice for Incarcerated Persons, Featured
On October 28, the FCC voted 2-1 to reverse the fair rate caps for prison phone and video calls that Congress mandated through the Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act. The decision will cost families hundreds of millions of dollars more each year...
by Sara Cederberg | Dec 22, 2025 | Blog, Featured, Online Accountability, Open and Affordable Communications
UCC Media Justice is deeply committed to ensuring that technological systems are tools for increasing justice, fairness, accountability and equity. We have long worked alongside our civil rights allies to protest new technologies used to exclude or used unfairly. ...
