Media Action Center is a nonprofit group of concerned residents throughout the United States led by former Emmy-winning broadcaster turned media democracy advocate Sue Wilson. We successfully influence policy at the Federal Communications Commission and at local US TV and Radio stations to ensure We the People are truly served by Our publicly owned airwaves. MAC joined Frequency Forward in filing a Motion to Intervene in ABC/Disney v FCC to ensure viewers, who own the Public Airwaves and whose rights are paramount, has a seat at the table. MAC also joined a current Petition to Deny the broadcast licenses of DISNEY ABC at the FCC. In 2017, MAC forced Entercom to give up its $13.5 million license to KDND for killing a woman in a radio water drinking stunt. That same year MAC empowered local listeners across the country to take Alex Jones off their local radio dials. In 2000, we informed the Supreme Court in FCC v Prometheus Radio that multiple local TV stations with one corporate owner merely duplicate news stories on all its stations; a similar methodology is currently being used in legal cases trying to prevent the Nexstar/TEGNA merger.

Find full journalistic coverage of all this plus Sinclair Broadcasting's shell game and other public interest media issues at SueWilsonReports.com. See also Wilson's documentary "Broadcast Blues" which is more relevant today than when it premiered in 2009. Broadcast Blues.

FCC Plan Could Turn YOUR Local TV News into Propaganda - PLEASE Act Now!

 August 14, 2025

 

    The Media Action Center is partnering with the Media and Democracy Coalition to make a pivotal Comment to the Federal Communications Commission. Within days, the FCC is likely to change local News on TV into radio-style propaganda.

   Will you please help?  Watch and ACT!

https://youtube.com/shorts/nbavsjzjYRA?si=wjD_SHao9V6lY2pc 

FTC Request for Public Comments Regarding Technology Platform Censorship

May 21, 2025

 In the Matter of:

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

Request for Public Comments Regarding Technology Platform Censorship

Docket number FTC-2025-0023

Good FTC Commissioners,

Am I being shadow banned on the social media platform X? Maybe. Let’s examine the evidence.

First, I am not a social media influencer. I currently have 2,069 followers on X, roughly the same as I had on Twitter for years. While it was Twitter, I enjoyed many exchanges with others, and often had my posts retweeted. I mainly post about issues of media policy and disinformation, and my point of view differs from that of current X owner Elon Musk. But having lived through fire evacuations, I also post an evacuation checklist whenever a major fire breaks out. Those posts gained the most traction.

Since Twitter became X, the personal exchanges went away, and I get very few retweets, even when asking whether people can see my posts. Is it shadowbanning? Perhaps it’s just their new algorithm. How would I know? I only know that the eyeballs on my evacuation checklist posts used to be high but have dwindled down to very few.

Please see my posts from July 2022 compared to similar posts I have been making in recent days:

JULY 2022:

MAY 2025:


 

As the Commissioners can see, the number of public views on these similar posts changed dramatically after Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter. Does that mean X is shadow banning my posts?

I can just say I see posts from many people on X complaining about just that.

 

Thank you for taking up this critically important issue.

 

Sincerely,

 

Sue Wilson

Media Action Center

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