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Summary

Elon Musk, co-leading Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” could influence U.S. broadband funding to benefit Starlink, his satellite internet company.

The Biden administration’s $42.45 billion BEAD program prioritizes fiber optics for rural broadband, but Starlink has been excluded for failing to meet performance standards.

Musk has criticized the program as wasteful and could push for funding delays or reallocation, benefiting Starlink as the only option in underserved areas.

Critics warn this shift favors Musk’s financial interests over reliable fiber infrastructure, raising conflict-of-interest concerns.

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[-] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 114 points 3 weeks ago
[-] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 32 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Jackiechan-what.jxl

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago
[-] mombutt_long_and_low@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Seriously. Is anybody surprised by these headlines?

[-] capital@lemmy.world 74 points 2 weeks ago
[-] immutable@lemm.ee 67 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

What a weird way to spell “will” I mean they missed every letter, “could” some editor must be real embarrassed.

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago

It's just their way of writing on something while avoiding a libel case against them.

[-] slickgoat@lemmy.world 48 points 2 weeks ago

Wadya mean 'could'?

[-] Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 3 weeks ago

he literally invested 44 billion for this

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 7 points 2 weeks ago

One might wonder where the 44 billion came from in the first place.

Oh...

[-] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 38 points 3 weeks ago

No shit sherlock.

[-] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago
[-] PoopSpiderman@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

He’s been grifting taxpayers forever. His improved access just allows him to expand it. America sucks.

[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 24 points 3 weeks ago
[-] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago

Well of course. As that was always the plan.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 22 points 2 weeks ago
[-] ef9357@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 3 weeks ago

Change the “could” in the title to “will” for better accuracy.

[-] golli@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago

You could even go as far as changing the "will" to "is", looking at how much Tesla's stock recently gained due to the forward looking nature of the market.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

what is with this trend of journalists slowly meandering to the point, tripping over themselves every step of the way?

musks’s conflict of interest has been staring us in the face since the DGE was first announced. (im not going to include the “of” in the acronym)

[-] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

They get paid by the word.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

if the article is long enough you could do a mid article ad as well

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago
[-] moon@lemmy.cafe 16 points 2 weeks ago

What else would he possibly use it for?

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago

Other-people-enpoorment?

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

Bears could shit in the woods.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Noooo... really?

[-] kyle@lemm.ee 13 points 2 weeks ago

This just in, politicians can use their power for self-enrichment.

The people who this might be news to are already so disillusioned.

As an aside, I don't think the new department will actually do anything, it'll just find projects with weird goals and claim they can save us all $100 million. Wow, big money. The Pentagon has failed literally every audit with billions unaccounted for with no repercussions, every single year since we even started checking in 2017. This is not "well it's classified so they can't tell us", this is the Pentagon acknowledging they have ~$4 TRILLION in physical assets and about half are unaccounted for.

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 13 points 2 weeks ago

He wouldn’t do that though because he already has so much money.

He doesn’t need anymore…… right?

[-] mdd@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago
[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

"I've investigated and my companies are the most efficient!"

🙄

[-] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

You can bet that on day one he'll claim NASA is less efficient than SpaceX, and therefore their budget should be directed to his company instead.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago
[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

That is the plan.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Isn't that the point?

[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 9 points 2 weeks ago

This just in... Water is wet!

[-] vala@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

This is such a stupid headline. No one actually thinks it's anything else.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

He wants to gut the FAA and DoT for daring to regulate his companies

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago
[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

could? probably already is

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

"Governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class."

  • James Connolly
[-] sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Another insightful deep-cut article from my favorite columnist Captain Obvious

[-] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 6 points 3 weeks ago

The acronym for Department of Government Efficiency is DOGE

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Such wow. Much efficiency!

[-] matlag@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

That would be such an unexpected plot twist! (No)

[-] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

*Audible gasp

[-] Docus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Is ‘could’ the new spelling of ‘will’?

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

"Would he do that?"

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The Biden administration’s $42.45 billion BEAD program prioritizes fiber optics for rural broadband, but Starlink has been excluded for failing to meet performance standards.

This is a wild misrepresentation of what happened with starlknk and the broadband funding.

SpaceX won the deal where the metrics were ABC by year 2025 ( I think 2025 but maybe later)

In year 2022 or something like that, they did some tests, it wasn't at 2025 goals, and were like nah, you aren't gonna make it and revoked it.

No one else had that done to them. It's not like the fiber companies had laid their fiber yet to all the areas and they said oh you haven't done it all yet? Finding pulled!

I don't even know if a single house had been connected to fiber yet from that funding, while starlink had connected many thousands and was improving.

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