Historic Social Media Addiction Trials Begin Jury Selection, Unsealed Docs Reveal Deliberate Design to Hook Kids

This week in The Dispatch, we cover the latest in the Big Tech social media addiction trials, new docs on Big Tech's deliberate product designs, and 2025 lobbying totals

Big Tech's Day In Court, Grok Spurs Action from Senate

This week in The Dispatch, we cover Big Tech's social media addiction trials, a plan for data centers, and Grok's role in passing the DEFIANCE Act

The New Political Costs of AI and Data Centers Emerge

This week in The Dispatch, we cover the GOP backlash to the Trump-Sacks AI executive order and a new, forward-looking data center policy proposal

Ending Public Funding for Big Tech AI, GOP Stampede Against Trump's AI EO

This week in The Dispatch, we cover the GOP backlash to the Trump-Sacks AI executive order and a new, forward-looking data center policy proposal

New Smoking Gun Meta Docs, the AI Super PAC Preemption Machine

This week in The Dispatch, we’re covering new court documents revealing Meta's 17-strike system for sexual predators and child traffickers, the AI super PACs trying to buy themselves a Congress, and the White House AI czar shaping an industry he’s invested in hundreds of times over.

Big Tech Accountability Winning on Culture, Data Centers Black-boxed by NDAs

This week in The Dispatch we’re covering early signs that Big Tech AI companies are losing the culture wars, states get gag-ordered into subsidizing data centers.

Big Tech Accountability Wins Elections and OpenAI Deletes Trial Evidence

This week in The Dispatch we're covering how candidates who ran on Big Tech accountability swept key races, a federal judge orders OpenAI to hand over deleted evidence in copyright trial, and New York enacts new safety laws for AI chatbots.

Big Tech Takes Election Day Off, OpenAI Logs Into Wall Street, and ICE Logs Everything Else

Welcome back to The Dispatch from The Tech Oversight Project, your weekly updates on all things tech accountability. Follow us on Twitter at @Tech_Oversight and @techoversight.bsky.social on Bluesky. 🗳️ ELECTION DAY IN AMERICA: Ballots are being cast and counted. Wear your “I Voted” sticker with pride — kind of

Big Tech Lobbying Breaks Records, Amazon Breaks the Internet, and Trump Breaks the White House

This week in The Dispatch we’re covering Big Tech’s record lobbying operation in Congress, Amazon’s AWS breaks the web, Meta’s own research proving Meta harms kids…again, and Trump demolishes the White House to party with tech CEOs.

Big Tech Buying Influence, Threatening Nonprofits, and … Summoning the Antichrist?

This week in The Dispatch we’re covering Big Tech’s no-holds-barred lobbying campaign that secured a last-minute veto of the nation’s strongest kids’ AI safety bill, OpenAI’s legal intimidation campaign, and Palantir CEO Peter Thiel’s bizarre obsession with the Antichrist.

CA: Real Progress, Unfinished Business, and Google's Epic Defeat

This week in The Dispatch we’re covering the suite of tech safety bills signed into California law (and the one that wasn't), Google’s loss in the Epic antitrust trial, and how Apple and Google pulled a community-safety app under federal pressure.

Big Tech Data Centers Spike Power Bills, Meta’s Buy-or-Bury Strategy Draws Monopoly Case (Again)

This week in The Dispatch we’re covering soaring electricity bills as Big Tech’s AI boom drains the grid, another Meta antitrust, buy-or-bury lawsuit, and a hopeful bipartisan AI bill.