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Ben Brody

Technology Reporter
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Ben has been covering tech policy for more than five years, chronicling the tech sector’s slide into one of Capitol Hill’s foremost punching bags after enjoying years as a darling of lawmakers. As a technology reporter, Ben covers efforts in both the House and Senate to rein in tech companies, from social media giants to nascent artificial intelligence firms. Ben previously covered tech policy at Protocol and reported on tech and politics at Bloomberg News. Originally from the suburbs of New York, he also covered merger enforcement at MLex with a focus on tech company deal-making.

Latest from Ben Brody

Tech’s tax wins
Tech scored a number of tax wins in the Republican reconciliation bill that passed the House this past week.
Tech Policy
What’s next on spectrum, AI state moratorium
there are big problems in the Senate for spectrum and the decade-long moratorium on state artificial intelligence laws.
Tech Policy
Google is ‘getting to yes’
This past week, a top policy official at Google’s YouTube testified at a Senate hearing on a bill the company supports to extend voice and likeness rights in the age of artificial intelligence.
Tech Policy
Intelligence concerns enter the spectrum debate
President Donald Trump wants to auction off billions of dollars worth of radio spectrum as part of Republicans’ reconciliation bill.
Tech
Trump wants to go big on spectrum
Trump threw his support behind making a significant amount of spectrum commercially available through the reconciliation bill.
Tech White House
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