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EMERGENCY PRESS BRIEFING: Members of Congress, Advocates to Announce Action Plan to Fight Facebook s Spanish-Language Disinformation Crisis
March 15, 2021
Contact: Timothy Karr, 201-533-8838
WASHINGTON Please join us on Tues., March 16, at noon EST as members of Congress and leading racial-justice activists call on Facebook to address the rampant Spanish-language disinformation that’s spreading across its platforms.
The launch of the #YaBastaFacebook initiative will include an announcement of significant new policy asks and demands of Facebook, and the release of a new video and findings about the company’s Spanish-language disinformation crisis. Advocates will call out Facebook for disrespecting the Latinx community, and demand solutions.
U.S. lawmakers suggest 25 movies about latinos to the National Film Registry
One of the movies nominated by the caucus last week is Frida (2002), an Oscar-winning movie about artist Frida Kahlo.
by Christina Morales
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is continuing work it started in January, when it nominated the movie Selena for the National Film Registry, with a list of 25 more films it would like to see the registry add.
The movies nominated by the caucus last week are from as early as 1982, and they include films like Spy Kids (2001), a comedy featuring a Latino family, and Frida (2002), an Oscar-winning movie about artist Frida Kahlo. The registry typically adds new movies in December.
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Public Knowledge Celebrates FCC Action To Connect the Vulnerable With New $50 Broadband Subsidy
Targeted News Service (Press Releases)
WASHINGTON,
Feb. 26, 2021:
Yesterday, the
Federal Communications Commission voted on circulation to approve a Report and Order to establish the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program, a
$3.2 billion federal initiative to provide qualifying households discounts on their internet service bills and an opportunity to receive a discount on a computer, laptop, or tablet. The program created by
Congress subsidizes broadband and device payments for low-income consumers or families hit hard by the pandemic, including students and the unemployed.
The program follows several months of advocacy from Public Knowledge, including an early proposal for an emergency broadband subsidy by Senior Vice President
Latino Voices for Boardroom Equity Furthers Diversity Efforts by Tracking California Companies With No Latino Board Representation
Latinos are largely left behind for a second quarter - holding only 2.3% of California public company board seats
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AB 979 by monitoring board composition by ethnicity and race. This information will allow Latinos and other underrepresented groups to measure the progress of their representation on California company boards.
In partnership with
Equilar, LCDA tracked 607 new board appointments made by California public companies between July 1 to December 31, 2020. Latinos gained only 14 board seats filled between July 1 to December 31, 2020, while the large majority of seats, 434, went to White/Caucasian directors, 74 seats went to Asian/Pacific Islander directors, and 73 seats went to Black/African American directors.