Lawmakers considering bills to safeguard minors from ostensible harms linked to social media platforms should carefully review two recent federal court opinions declaring unconstitutional state laws imposing parental-consent, age-verification mandates.…
By Clay Calvert | May 21, 2025
Last week, Tulsi Gabbard, appointed by President Trump as the Director of National Intelligence, fired the top two officials of the National Intelligence Council (NIC) after The Washington Post and the New York Times reported that…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | May 20, 2025
Justice Kavanaugh asked some important practical questions during oral argument in the birthright citizenship case in the Supreme Court last week. The executive order in dispute purports to deny citizenship…
By Jim Harper | May 20, 2025
The figures and data below are all hot of the press and shared to help get your weekend off to an intellectually stimulating start. Enjoy! The Earth is Darkening In…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | May 19, 2025
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) antitrust case against Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is not really about protecting consumers or competition. It is an attempt to use regulatory power to dismantle…
By Mark Jamison | May 16, 2025
In Congress’s latest attempt to regulate Big Tech, two Republican lawmakers have created a policy paradox. In an effort to shape the future of app stores, each piece of proposed…
By Shane Tews | May 16, 2025
As social media platforms integrate personalization technology, questions around privacy, transparency, and user choice are becoming increasingly pronounced. What does personalization really mean for users? How do platforms like Facebook…
By Shane Tews | May 15, 2025
A pivotal decision made by the Biden administration last year requires that broadband grants supported by the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program be reviewed under the…
By Will Rinehart | May 15, 2025
One of the challenges, even for experts, in making sense of climate projections is that the scenarios underlying the projections are so complex as to be impenetrable without a lot…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | May 14, 2025
D-Day is more than just the glorious day that began the end of World War II. It is the general term for any major military operation, along with H-Hour and…
By Jim Harper | May 14, 2025
Can the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) square its statutory authority to ensure that over-the-air television broadcasters provide local content that serves the public interest with potentially eliminating a federal rule…
By Clay Calvert | May 14, 2025
Every startup story is a mosaic of choices, chances, and context. But in its lawsuit against Meta, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has adopted a sharply linear view of innovation—one where the…
By Mark Jamison | May 13, 2025
Meta was kind enough to extend an invitation for me to attend its inaugural LlamaCon—a one-day developer summit devoted to the Llama family of open-source large language models. It offered…
By John Bailey | May 12, 2025
A new bill, the App Store Accountability Act, puts the onus of age verification on app stores as a means of promoting online safety for children. According to proponent Senator…
By Bronwyn Howell | May 12, 2025
Last June, my peer-reviewed paper on problems with NOAA’s Billion Dollar Disaster (BDD) tabulation was published. Today, NOAA announced that the BDD tabulation would no longer be updated by the agency, explaining…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | May 9, 2025