If upheld, dangerous state laws would force platforms like Facebook and YouTube to keep content online even when it clearly violates their terms of service.
The crisis is real, and policymakers have started to talk about the roles they can play to solve it — but some of their solutions would do more harm than good.
This long-overdue order will help the FCC, Congress and the American public better understand whether the broadcast sector is serving the public interest.
Efforts to “save” local journalism will not succeed unless they reckon with the historical role that journalism has played in undermining democracy for Black people.