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Friday, February 3, 2023
February 2023
Meta Platforms Shares Surge 23% on Cost Cuts, Stock Buyback (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 02/03/2023 - 06:29Weekly Digest
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Harvard is shutting down project that studied social media misinformation (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 02/02/2023 - 18:03Jefferson County Cable admits lying to FCC about size of network to block funding to rivals
Ryan Grewell, who runs a small wireless Internet service provider called Smart Way Communications in Ohio, filed challenges to the Federal Communications Commission's new broadband map after his customers noticed that the FCC map falsely reported fiber Internet service was available at their homes. The FCC data was provided by Jefferson County Cable. In a reply to Grewell's challenges, Jefferson County Cable Executive Bob Loveridge wrote, "You challenged that we do not have service at your residence and indeed we don't today.
A conservative case for the Affordable Connectivity Program
Unfortunately, the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) is set to run out of funds as soon as early 2024. For conservatives who are rightly concerned about traditional government subsidies, I humbly suggest that extending the ACP by appropriating additional funds for the program is well within our economic principles, even when we absolutely must shrink overall federal spending.