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In a video posted to Instagram earlier this week, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced “major changes” to Facebook and Instagram’s content-moderation policies and operations. Zuckerberg highlighted the importance of allowing private market actors to decide the best way to balance the speech interests of their users. As we move into a new administration, one … Meta’s Announcement: The Return of Online Free Speech?
The early data from New York City’s congestion-pricing experiment is rolling in. If you look at affected routes, you see a clear drop when the fee kicks in. For routes that are unaffected, we saw no change. So far, it seems the basic prediction from supply and demand holds true. When the price of driving into Manhattan is raised, … Congestion Pricing Reduces Driving. That Doesn’t Make It a Good Idea.
Created as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that President Joe Biden signed into law in November 2021, the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program is supposed to provide $42.45 billion to U.S. states, territories, and the District of Columbia to help with broadband planning, deployment, mapping, equity, and adoption—all overseen by … NTIA’s BEAD Technology Guidance: In Search of a Bang for the Buck
