Новости за 16.01.2024

It has now been three months since the FEC closed its comment period on Public Citizen’s petition for a new rule to regulate the use of generative AI deepfakes in election ads. Despite the urgency posed by the rapidly approaching 2024 election, the FEC has yet to make a decision on whether or not to proceed with rulemaking.

Robert Weissman, the president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement in response:

“Do we have a real Federal Election Commission, or is the FEC just a computer-generated illusion? Читать дальше...

See below for a statement from ITEP Federal Policy Director Steve Wamhoff on the tax deal announced this morning by Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Jason Smith.

It's tough, in this bleak, bloody, foreboding time, to hold onto and keep faith with Martin Luther King's lofty vision of equality forged through non-violence. Still, we're trying. For succor there is the memory of the blessed John Lewis, honored in a new biography, for whom "the fire never dimmed"; the words of King himself, who argued, "Only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars," and the fierce Rev. William Barber, who rejects the revisionist "happy MLK" and vows to "reconsecrate" himself to the work at hand. Читать дальше...