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• March 27, 2026

  Tech Critics See Hope In Social Media Verdicts

  The courts are emerging as the forum to hold social media giants accountable for their algorithms now that two multimillion-dollar jury verdicts determined the platforms are harming the mental health of young people, after years of being unchecked by Congress.

• March 27, 2026

  Networks Using Legacy TV As A 'Cash Cow,' Advocates Say

  Networks see local TV stations as little more than "cash cows" and are "sucking the lifeblood out of television stations" by demanding increasingly higher fees in exchange for allowing them to air network content, a pair of media advocacy groups have told the Federal Communications Commission.

• March 27, 2026

  Pa. Panel Rejects Proposed Verizon Tower In Pittsburgh

  Verizon won't be able to build a 100-foot monopole in Pittsburgh after a Pennsylvania state court panel said that a local council was within its rights to revoke the permission it had given the mobile behemoth after it failed to get the requisite permits.

• March 27, 2026

  FCC Can't Waive TV Broadcast Cap For Nexstar, DC Circ. Told

  Public interest and labor groups banded together with cable and satellite groups Friday to try convincing the D.C. Circuit that the Federal Communications Commission can't waive its 39% national audience cap to let the $6.2 billion merger of Nexstar and Tegna Inc. move forward.

• March 27, 2026

  FCC Bars Another Chinese Test Lab Over Security Risk

  The Federal Communications Commission on Friday pulled the accreditation of another Chinese communications device testing lab due to concerns about Chinese state government control.

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