Project 2025: What a second Trump term could mean for media and technology policies

Project 2025 echoes Donald Trump’s critical view of the media. As a result, it proposes to strip public broadcasting of its funding and legal status, thus endangering access to reliable news for American citizens. The authors allege that Big Tech colluded with the government to attack American values and advance “wokeism.” In response, they envision sweeping antitrust enforcement not on economic grounds, but for socio-political reasons. On artificial intelligence policy, Project 2025 remains vague and fails to propose solutions for key policy areas such as privacy, safety, and the information ecosystem. Lagging on AI oversight and dismantling existing protections is dangerous for individuals and democracies alike.

[Roxana Muenster is a COMPASS Fellow at The Brookings Institution, PhD Student in Department of Communication ata  Cornell University, Graduate Affiliate  at the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life, University of North Carolina.]