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Congress created FirstNet in the wake of 9/11 to launch a universal broadband network for first responders — but the work ...

Today, Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled that Google violated antitrust law by monopolizing two markets of the digital advertising ecosystem.

Public Knowledge believes it’s vitally important to protect Americans’ access to trustworthy sources of news. Some of our team can quote from memory the numbers related to news deserts and laid-off ...

Late last week, the Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of eight states reached settlements with three global advertising agency conglomerates to resolve a complaint about whether the agencies ...

When Donald Trump returned to the White House buoyed by the support of tech billionaires, one of the first orders of business was rescinding the Biden administration’s executive orders on artificial ...

The purpose of having FCC oversight of broadband providers and net neutrality rules is to have an expert agency investigate these issues when they arise to ensure the internet remains open to everyone ...

Today, Judge Leonie Brinkema issued her remedies order in the Google ad-tech antitrust case, rejecting structural remedies while imposing behavioral requirements on Google. The full decision remains ...

The Federal Trade Commission just published a report four years in the making detailing the data privacy practices of several major technology companies, and the findings are somehow both unsurprising ...

Excuse the hackneyed lift from “The Princess Bride,” clearly the greatest love story ever told. But it’s apt: President Trump and his Republican allies keep decrying “censorship” by others – in ...

A lot has changed since Public Knowledge began a dialogue almost seven years ago about the role of dominant digital platforms in public discourse. Our earliest analysis (like that of many other civil ...

The firing of Stephen Colbert (or, more technically, CBS canceling “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” when his contract expires in May 2026) has become an important flash point in the issue of the ...