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The porn industry’s largest website, Pornhub, said Missouri's new policy requiring explicit sites to verify that users are adults is a privacy risk. Kansas was blacked out last year over a similar law.

Kansas got $451 million from a Biden administration grant for "Broadband Equity, Acess and Deployment." But after the Trump administration told states to rethink how to spend the money, Kansas rolled back its proposal.

Federal dollars will help bring internet connection to rural communities across the U.S. But new guidance from the Trump administration is asking states to consider the lowest-cost options. What's the status of efforts to fund broadband infrastructure?

The Trump Administration asked states to find the lowest-cost option in the latest program to build broadband infrastructure in rural areas. That opens the door for more types of technology, which some worry could be less reliable in the long-term.

North Kansas City built a fiber network almost two decades ago that it now uses to provide its residents with gigabit internet. Here’s how it happened and why other cities in the country are, or aren’t, trying to do the same.

Under a new Kansas law that took effect Monday, adult websites must verify that visitors are over the age of 18. Critics are concerned about internet users' data privacy, and one of the world's most popular websites has blocked access entirely in the state.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Missouri, Louisiana and five individuals who were either banned from social media during the pandemic or whose posts, they say, were not prominently featured.

Kansas City residents can qualify for the Affordable Connectivity Program if they make less than twice the federal poverty level (about $60,000 for a family of four), if someone in the household is a Pell Grant recipient or receives assistance like SNAP or Medicaid.

SB Mowing has more than 20 million followers on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. His time-lapse videos of lawn transformations have garnered more than 2 billion views.

States, local governments and internet providers have until Friday, Jan. 13 to challenge the Federal Communications Commission’s National Broadband Map. The map shows where service is and isn’t across the country.

After buying Twitter for $44 billion, Tesla CEO Elon Musk continues to make headlines for laying off half the staff, reinstating Trump's account and inspiring users' farewell to the social media app.

In Max Fisher's new book "The Chaos Machine," he examines how social media giants like Facebook and Twitter contributed to political divisions in modern America.