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.
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 · August 20, 2026
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 · July 23, 2026
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 · June 30, 2026
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 · June 7, 2026
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 · May 16, 2026