How BEAD broadband funds were diverted to benefit Musk and Bezos
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Karl Bode, Sean Gonsalves
Summary
The article investigates how the Biden-era BEAD program, originally designed to expand broadband access to underserved communities, has been diverted under the Trump administration to benefit tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. It details how Starlink and Amazon's Project Kuiper have received billions in subsidies and contracts, while rural and low-income communities continue to lack reliable internet access. The piece uses the dramatic failure of a Blue Origin rocket launch as a framing device to explore the broader story of corporate capture of public infrastructure funding.
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· 3 pulledAt 9PM ET on the night of May 28th, a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket sat on the launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The effort was backed by hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, leveraging a Biden-era law meant to address America's digital divide.
But before the satellites even reached the launch site, Jeff Bezos' rocket exploded into a massive fireball, its wreckage left smolder
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