Insights & Opinions

Bargaining with tech titans like Mark Zuckerberg won’t serve the needs of news outlets or the communities they’re supposed to serve.

Free Press COO Kimberly Longey organized a municipal project to bring fiber internet to her community. Now the FCC is endangering this network — and others.

Our look at a little corner of Western Massachusetts provides further proof that Pai’s attempt to close the digital divide is one of the most wasteful projects in agency history.

FCC Chairman Pai’s bungled effort to close the rural-broadband digital divide looks more and more like one of the most wasteful projects in FCC history.

While the FCC continues to ignore the plight of the urban poor, it’s giving Elon Musk nearly a billion in subsidies.

The FCC chairman has allowed money intended for underserved communities to subsidize the construction of gigabit networks in rich, densely populated neighborhoods.

How the platforms address disinformation, misleading claims about election results and nefarious uses of its tools is shifting and evolving in real time.

During a new COVID surge and amid trauma from environmental disasters and police violence, the Trump FCC is giving away its power to get and keep people connected.

The Lifeline program — which the Trump FCC has attacked — helps low-income people afford phone and internet. And right now Lifeline couldn’t be more crucial.

How do journalists tell the story of this time? By speaking truth to power. And the story of COVID-19 is dangerously incomplete without an analysis of racial justice.