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 FCC commissioner and broadband providers are pretending that the California Net Neutrality law is jeopardizing veterans’ access to health care.
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During a new COVID surge and amid trauma from environmental disasters and police violence, the Trump FCC is giving away its power to get and keep people connected.
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Spoiler alert: Your wireless prices are going to go up.
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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.
News
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The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act ensures that law enforcement and intelligence agencies can’t do an end-run around the Constitution.
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The petition cites evidence of intentional news distortion by Fox in a lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems.
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“The bill would deliver massive handouts to the already-lucrative conglomerates that prioritize profits over the people they’re supposed to serve,” said Free Press Action VP Matt Wood.
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The JCPA fundamentally fails to recognize that any solution to the journalism crisis must prioritize the public interest and local accountability journalism.
From the Policy Library
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Free Press urges Congress to reimagine and reinvent universal service policy for the future.
Congressional Correspondence
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In these reply comments, Free Press urges the FCC to adopt strong rules prohibiting digital discrimination.
FCC Filing & Correspondence
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Free Press supports the FCC’s decision to bar digital discrimination whether it is intentional or simply due to broader structural factors.
FCC Filing & Correspondence
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In these comments, Free Press urges the FTC to prohibit data brokers and other commercial entities from abusing people’s online privacy rights.
