In 2025, Big Tech got almost everything it wanted from President Trump, as he backs policies that let the industry grow unfettered, worrying some conservatives
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/ technology/tech-trump.html @terigoodson : “The conservative party stands for the free market and not picking winners and losers, yet what we've ...
The FCC votes 3-2 to reinstate the US' net neutrality rules, expanding government oversight of ISPs and aiming to protect consumer access to the internet
Oh right, there wasn't one. Telecomms are fuming about the restoration of rules that prevent them from gouging their customers. Us. … Chuck Darwin / @cdarwin@c.im : FCC votes to ...
Twitter quietly altered its hateful conduct policy to remove long-standing protections for transgender users, including prohibiting “misgendering or deadnaming”
Twitter has quietly altered its Hateful Conduct Policy to remove long-standing protections for its transgender users …
Some civil rights groups say they have seen little action from Meta, Twitter, TikTok, and YouTube to bolster election policies ahead of the 2022 US midterms
yet big tech companies continue to do little to stop the continued proliferation of election misinformation on their sites. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @globalextremism : ...
A US Senate committee votes to approve the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, letting news organizations jointly negotiate with big tech platforms
The FCC rejects SpaceX's application for an $885M subsidy to provide Starlink broadband to rural America over 10 years, after tentatively approving it in 2020
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch : Source: Federal Communications … .
In a letter to Zuckerberg, the FTC called Facebook's initial claim it cut off NYU researchers' access to comply with an FTC privacy agreement “inaccurate”
The Federal Trade Commission has dismissed as “inaccurate” Facebook's claim that it cut off a group of researchers' access …
Overview of House lawmakers' recent antitrust-focused bills, which target consumer tech giants, vary in radicalness, and at times conflict with each other
From the Wall Street Journal: — These bills are the ultimate outcome of the House Subcommittee on Antitrust's investigation …
Bipartisan lawmakers introduce Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act to address police surveillance, including banning warrantless location data purchases
Profile of Jessica Rosenworcel, the second woman to lead the FCC as acting chair and a big proponent of net neutrality and expanding broadband access
a role that has had an impact on her policy priorities. Here's my profile of her: https://www.nbcnews.com/... Tony Romm / @tonyromm : NEW: Biden appoints Rebecca Kelly Slaughter as...
Data from Facebook users: 12 political groups were in the top 100 recommended in Jan.; FB said it would not recommend “political content or social issue groups”
According to Citizen Browser data, the platform especially peppered Trump voters with political grouprecommendations
After Democrats won both of Georgia's Senate seats, a look at potential tech legislation under a unified government, including a federal privacy bill
Emily Birnbaum / Protocol :
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is tying the fate of $2,000 stimulus checks to the repeal of Section 230
in a Bill That Would Also Eliminate Section 230 Dell Cameron / Gizmodo : McConnell Doesn't Care About Section 230 or the Election—Just Keeping Your Relief Check Small Tweets: Donal...
About 25 academics, journalists, others say they've formed the Real Facebook Oversight Board, to analyze and critique Facebook's content moderation decisions
An independent audit commissioned by Facebook harshly criticizes the company, arguing that some of its decisions were “significant setbacks for civil rights”
An independent audit faulted the social network for “vexing and heartbreaking decisions” that affect its users — and potentially the November elections.
After meeting between leaders of Facebook, ADL, Free Press, NAACP, and Color Of Change, boycott organizers are unconvinced meaningful change will occur
WASHINGTON — On Tuesday afternoon, leaders of four of the organizations coordinating the #StopHateForProfit advertising boycott met …
After meeting between leaders of Facebook, ADL, Free Press, NAACP, and Color Of Change, boycott organizers are unconvinced meaningful change will occur
WASHINGTON — On Tuesday afternoon, leaders of four of the organizations coordinating the #StopHateForProfit advertising boycott met …
An independent audit commissioned by Facebook harshly criticizes the company, arguing that some of its decisions were “significant setbacks for civil rights”
An independent audit faulted the social network for “vexing and heartbreaking decisions” that affect its users — and potentially the November elections.
US Government Accountability Office says it will investigate fake net neutrality comments made on FCC website before repeal vote, starting in five months
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :