The FTC’s New Settlement With Ad Agencies Still Misses the Point The FTC and a coalition of eight states reached settlements with three advertising agencies to resolve a complaint about whether the agencies had worked with third parties to anticompetitively boycott...

Advertisers avoiding placing ads next to harmful or misleading content isn’t “censorship” – it's capitalism at work. So why is the FTC treating it like a conspiracy? Read the latest from Policy Director @lisahmacpherson.bsky.social:

publicknowledge.org/the-ftcs-new...

Will we ever have another independent FTC? Director of Government Affairs Sara Collins breaks down takeaways from the @commerce.senate.gov FTC Oversight Hearing.

Senate Commerce is holding an FTC oversight hearing this morning. Curiously, in announcing the hearing, Chair Cruz pointed to Biden FTC Chair Khan as "weaponizing the agency" as justification for the hearing... but Khan is long gone.

Chair Ferguson & Commissioner Meador are witnesses

Follow the FTC Oversight hearing with me in this thread!

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

From public funding to community ownership to antitrust enforcement, there's a whole suite of policy options for saving local news. In her 2023 white paper, @lisahmacpherson.bsky.social makes the case for how to make the most of them. #LocalNewsDay

Graphic with Public Knowledge logo and text that reads, "We're proud to support Local News Day. Local news is a public good but the market isn't delivering. This Local News Day we're calling for action."

Local news is a public good, but the market isn't producing enough of it. @haroldfeld.bsky.social has thoughts on what policymakers keep getting wrong – and what a real fix looks like.

publicknowledge.org/america-need... #LocalNewsDay

Image with Public Knowledge logo and text that reads, "We're proud to support Local News Day. Celebrate and strengthen trusted local news"

@publicknowledge.bsky.social is a proud partner of #LocalNewsDay – a national day of action to celebrate and strengthen trusted local news and information. Are you subscribed to your local newspaper yet? Find your local newspaper here:

localnewsday.org/newsrooms/

On the White House AI Framework (If You Could Call It That) The Trump administration's National AI Framework falls short of offering Americans any real mechanisms for accountability or oversight.

In late March, the @whitehouse-47.bsky.social released its National AI Legislative Framework — but the "framework" part of it seems to be missing. Read the latest from @natpurser.bsky.social:

Read more: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

CC: @theintercept.com @rightsdissent.bsky.social @nppa.org @calmatters.org @facoalition.bsky.social @newsmediaalliance.bsky.social @freepress.bsky.social @pogo.org @publicknowledge.bsky.social

The Google Search Remedies Are Already Failing: How Weak Antitrust Relief Handed Google an AI Advantage Apple and Google recently announced a multiyear, $20 billion partnership to integrate Google’s Gemini technology into Apple's own AI features.

Read the latest from @publicknowledge.bsky.social intern Lydia Giannini on what this could mean for competition in the tech market:

publicknowledge.org/the-google-s...

In January, Apple and Google announced a multiyear, $20 billion partnership to integrate Google's Gemini into Apple's AI features, including an AI-powered Siri — a deal only possible due to the weak antitrust remedies in landmark ruling in DOJ v. Google.

Last week, I expressed my confusion when Sen. Schmitt touted this settlement as a "huge win for Missouri". All the settlement does forbid CDC, Surgeon Gen., & CISA from coercing platforms to moderate plaintiffs in Missouri & Louisiana. But... those agencies have no coercive power already.

Murthy v. Missouri Settlement Does Nothing To Combat Illegal Jawboning The social media lawsuit Murthy v. Missouri, originally filed as Missouri v. Biden, has finally come to an end.

Last week, the Trump administration moved to settle Murthy v. Missouri — but the core issue at hand remains unresolved. Read the latest from Policy Analyst @mwils.bsky.social:

publicknowledge.org/murthy-v-mis...

Former FCC Commissioners and Consumer Advocacy Groups To Supreme Court: Wireless Carriers Must Be Held Accountable for Data Breach Friend-of-the-Court Brief Offers Expert Perspective in Key Consolidated Supreme Court Case

Consumers should not have to trade privacy for connectivity — and we need the FCC to have the authority to hold offenders accountable. Read our joint statement:

🚨Today, we joined two former Federal Communications Commission Chairs & five other consumer advocacy groups to submit an amicus brief in Supreme Court cases regarding the FCC’s ability to hold wireless carriers accountable for data breaches and other violations of consumer privacy rights.

Judge dismisses lawsuit by Musk's X Corp accusing advertisers of illegal boycott A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed X Corp's antitrust lawsuit ​that accused the World Federation of Advertisers and major ‌companies including Mars, CVS Health and Colgate-Palmolive of illegally boyco...

"A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed X Corp's antitrust lawsuit ​that accused the World Federation of Advertisers and major ‌companies including Mars, CVS Health, and Colgate-Palmolive, of illegally boycotting billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s social media company."

Public Knowledge Warns New FCC Order To Accelerate Phone System Upgrades May Jeopardize Service for Consumers, Disconnect Rural America Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.

“Today’s Order puts people at risk." Read more in our statement from @haroldfeld.bsky.social:

But while the majority of phone connections today use either mobile service or cable or fiber lines, such a rapid transition could mean that millions of Americans who still rely on traditional legacy copper lines may get left behind — and may even disrupt 911 services.

Today, the Federal Communications Commission voted to accelerate the removal of the country’s remaining copper phone lines while simultaneously eliminating traditional legacy phone service and transitioning the entire national phone network to an IP-based network.

Explainer: What comes next after the social media trial verdicts? Recent jury verdicts in California and New Mexico involving Meta Platforms and Alphabet's Google are sharpening scrutiny of social media companies as plaintiffs advance legal theories aimed at holding...

Juries in two different cases reached similar verdicts re: whether Meta & Google should be liable for harm minor users experience from using their platforms. To date, most attempts to make online platforms accountable for harms have failed - thanks to a combo of S230 liable shield & 1st Amend.

Public Knowledge Applauds Supreme Court Decision Protecting Consumers’ Internet Access Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.

Read more in our statement from Senior Policy Counsel @mrose.ink:

publicknowledge.org/public-knowl...

"Today’s decision is a long-overdue win for common sense.” This morning, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in @coxcommunications.bsky.social v. Sony that broadband providers cannot be held liable for providing internet access to customers accused of copyright infringement.

Menendez, Matsui, Barragán, and Carter Introduce Legislation Compelling FCC to Re-Establish Communications Equity and Diversity Council | U.S. House Representative Rob Menendez The Official U.S. Congressional website of Congressman Rob Menendez

@alisavalentin.bsky.social: “This legislation would help advance the FCC’s mission of making communications available to all the people of the United States, without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex." Read our joint statement below:

🎉 Last week, @menendez.house.gov, @dorismatsui.bsky.social, @repbarragan.bsky.social, & @reptroycarter.bsky.social introduced the Communications Equity and Diversity Council Act, which would compel the Federal Communications Commission to re-establish the Communications Equity and Diversity Council.

🔊 ICYMI: Yesterday, @publicknowledge.bsky.social Legal Director @bergmayer.net joined @thebradblog.bsky.social to discuss our recent lawsuit to block the illegal Nexstar / TEGNA, Inc. merger:

Free Press, @cwaunion.bsky.social, @uccmediajustice.org, @publicknowledge.bsky.social, represented by @democracyforward.org, have filed an appeal of the FCC’s rushed approval of a Nexstar and Tegna merger.

Let’s be very clear: This deal is unlawful. And we’re not going to let it stand.

🧵 >

What Is the Public Interest Standard, and How Is the FCC Under President Trump Exploiting it? The public interest standard has never been clearly defined in law — a vulnerability that the current FCC chair seems eager to exploit.

Read the latest from Policy Analyst @mwils.bsky.social at the link below:

The FCC’s “public interest” standard has never been clearly defined in law – a flexibility that has historically helped the agency adapt over time. But in the hands of Chairman Brendan Carr, it's become a vulnerability he seems eager to exploit.

Preemption Isn’t Governance. We Need a Federal Framework for AI. In December 2025, President Trump signed an EO directing federal agencies to identify and preempt state laws on artificial intelligence.

Read the latest from Senior Policy Advocate @natpurser.bsky.social: