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Fress Press Staffer, Pai Get Into Tweet Tiff

TVNewsCheck | by Doug Halonen

PaiWilsonAfter Free Press’s Lauren Wilson suggests in Tweet that FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai’s concern for people of color is insincere, Pai Tweets back that he is proud of his “Indian heritage and I am never going to apologize for standing for what I believe is right.” Wilson then Tweeted an apology. The exchange came in the context of the controversy surrounding FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s plan to ban joint sales agreements, which Free Press supports and Pai opposes.