Matt helps shape our policy team’s efforts to protect the open internet, prevent media concentration, promote affordable broadband deployment and safeguard press freedom. He’s served as an expert witness before Congress on multiple occasions. Before joining Free Press, he worked at the public interest law firm Media Access Project and in the communications practice groups of two private law firms in Washington, D.C. Before that, he served as editor-in-chief for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, worked for PBS, and spent time at several professional and college radio and television stations. Matt earned his B.A. in film studies from Columbia University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. Matt likes watching sports, riding his bicycle and talking about philosophy — just not all at the same time.
Expert Analysis
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The Trump administration is recommending a veto of the Save the Internet Act if that bill reaches the president's desk. And the decision is based on faulty data.
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This deal would harm people of color and all communities and constituencies that rely on having more affordable and open wireless options.
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There have been loads of press reports all falsely claiming that today, April 23, is the day that Ajit Pai’s Net Neutrality repeal takes effect.
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We’re taking the FCC to court to restore the Net Neutrality rules. Here’s what that process will look like.
News
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Broadband really is getting faster, but it has nothing to do with the end of Net Neutrality.
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The FCC claims its deregulatory agenda has led to record gains in the private sector’s efforts to expand access to high-speed internet.
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Only 16 months after it turned on its service in Louisville, Google Fiber announced plans to turn it off.
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The Democrat-backed “Save The Internet Act” Net Neutrality bill was the center of attention on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
From the Policy Library
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Free Press Action Fund Policy Director Matt Wood testified before the Special Committee on Net Neutrality and Consumer Protection.
