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The Trump FCC is at war with the First Amendment


The MAGA thought enforcement is in fact unprecedented — and dangerous.

I’ve been the editor-in-chief of The Verge for over 10 years now, and a tech journalist for about 15 — and until recently, it felt pretty safe to assume that there was a zero percent chance that the US government would punish me for doing my job. This is really serious stuff, and it could have far-reaching consequences on how journalists try to report on the Trump administration — primarily by creating a real and sustained culture of fear, one that’s already ripping through the corporate parent companies of media organizations. It’s dire out there, so to help understand the scope of the problem, I brought on Matt Wood, general counsel and VP of policy at Free Press(not the Bari Weiss publication, but the much older First Amendment advocacy group).

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