Policy
Section 230 is twenty-six words, and most of the debate skips them
The provision's protection and its limits both live in the exact statutory text, which is shorter than almost any headline written about it.
Alexandria Lucas
Policy
Policy covers legislation and government proposals affecting information: online safety statutes, broadcasting and licensing rules, data protection, ownership limits and public media funding. Explainers state what each measure obliges, which body enforces it and when it applies. For policy staff, media lawyers and organizations that must comply with the result.
Legislation and government proposals on speech, broadcasting, data and online safety, explained by obligation, enforcement body and compliance date.
Policy
What does an FTC consent decree actually require a platform to do?
The government's most common tool for disciplining a tech platform after a privacy failure is not the fine — it is a multi-year compliance regime, and Meta's own record shows how much can still go wrong inside one.
Alexandria Lucas
Policy
How press freedom indexes measure the U.S. — and what they can and cannot tell you
America's decline in the global rankings is real, driven by documented attacks on journalists and legal pressure, but the scores aggregate methodology and perception in ways readers should discount precisely.
Alexandria Lucas
Policy
Media literacy is becoming state law — and curriculum fights follow it in
A dozen-plus states now require K-12 media literacy instruction, a rare bipartisan information-policy achievement whose implementation is being shaped by the same polarization it aims to treat.
Alexandria Lucas
Policy
The rules against taxpayer-funded propaganda exist — and mostly aren't enforced
From the 1951 publicity statute to video news release scandals, the law bars agencies from lobbying the public with public money, but nobody is assigned to catch them at it.
Alexandria Lucas