Government & Communications

President Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr is boasting to friends that he is having “the time of his life” after launching an all-out attack on the media. Chairman Carr has spread dread through top-ranked media executives since taking office at the same time as President Trump.

Since January 20, the new US presidential administration has taken down thousands of government web pages related to public health, environmental justice, and scientific research. The mass takedowns stem from the new administration’s push to remove government information related to diversity and “gender ideology,” as well as scrutiny of various government agencies’ practices. But as government web pages go dark, a collection of organizations are trying to archive as much data and information as possible before it’s gone for good.

Reports from the US Government Accountability Office on improper federal payments in recent years are circulating on X and elsewhere online, and they seem to be a big influence on Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency and its supporters as the group pursues cost-cutting measures across the federal government. The payment reports have been spread online by dozens of pundits, sleuths, and anonymous analysts

Scientists and public health leaders are taking stock of the Trump administration's abrupt decision to pull down web pages, datasets and selected information from federal health websites.

Billionaire Elon Musk and his band of young Silicon Valley engineers have gained access to IT systems controlling critical functions of the federal government, from the Treasury Department to the Small Business Administration. The problem is no one outside of the Trump administration really knows what Musk and his team at the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are planning to do with that access.

Elon Musk’s campaign to cut Washington’s bureaucracy is aiming at a very specific, very sensitive digital power center: the federal IT infrastructure. Musk and his allies have gained access to the Treasury Department’s payments systems, and they’ve commandeered enough control at the Office of Personnel Management to send a 

Nearly every computer system draws a line between the right to look at files and the right to change them—but till now, the details barely mattered to most non-programmers. The early days of Trump's second administration—as 

Rep Paul Gosar (R-AZ) reintroduced H.R. 908, the Stop the Censorship Act, legislation reforming Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 to end Big Tech’s broad ability to censor Americans. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1934 deputizes Big Tech companies to censor competition and lawful political speech, even affording immunity from legal challenges against anticompetitive conduct.

As Elon Musk digs into the federal bureaucracy in his crusade to slash government spending, he has a tool that no aspiring cost-cutter has had before: his own giant social media platform to debate, shame and bludgeon anyone who stands in his way.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sought to reassure his workforce that the social media company’s values haven’t changed despite a slew of policy shifts that included ending its diversity and fact-checking programs. In a companywide meeting, Zuckerberg told employees that 2025 would be a “big year for resetting our relationship with governments around the world.” But he specified that Meta would not forsake its values. The message appeared to be an attempt to reassure employees after dramatic ch