January 2026

The Atlantic sued Google and its parent company Alphabet, alleging the tech giant’s model of serving ads to publishers has become a monopoly and that it has falsely claimed its practices would work to the Atlantic’s benefit—only to enrich itself instead.

In this episode of the Divide, Nicole Ferraro, Drew Garner, and Missouri State Rep Louis Riggs (R-MO) discuss the specific asks of the letter organized by Rep Riggs and State Connections, why Broadband Equity Access and Deployment non-deployment funds are a key component of the broadband connectivity program and what happens now in light of Trump's executive order.

In a bid to tamp down growing unrest in communities over tech giants’ expansion of power-hungry data centers, President Donald Trump said his administration would push Silicon Valley companies to ensure their massive computer farms do not drive up people’s electricity bills, seizing on a promise Microsoft made public to be a better neighbor. The Trump administration has gone all in on artificial intelligence, pushing aside concerns within the MAGA movement and seeking to 

While a federal court struck down the Federal Trade Commission’s original “click-to-cancel” rule on a technicality, the agency has quietly been collecting input from the public to restore this commonsense consumer protection rule.