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.
Every eight years stations must show the FCC they served the public interest, and the petitions to deny that process invites are the strongest lever citizens have short of litigation.
Alexandria Lucas
The FCC's 2024 reclassification was vacated in early 2025, returning the rules to the statutory limbo where broadband has lived since 2017.
Alexandria Lucas
The Foreign Agents Registration Act forces outlets like RT and CGTN to file as agents, but disclosure is its entire effect: the law neither censors content nor restricts their audiences.
Alexandria Lucas
The Kids Online Safety Act cleared the Senate 91-3 and died in the House; state age-verification mandates, upheld by the Supreme Court in 2025, now carry the policy.
Alexandria Lucas
Most states protect journalists' sources, federal law still does not, and the current congressional vehicle has cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee without reaching the floor.
Aleksandr Komarov