This week in The Dispatch: AI surveillance becomes a national issue and new court docs show how Meta sought to addict teens to win whole households.
This week in The Dispatch: What Mark Zuckerberg told the court; Meta spends big in elections; NJ steps up on child safety
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. Z-DAY HAS ARRIVED: As Mark Zuckerberg takes the stand today in the landmark social media addiction trials, newly unsealed
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following report on the eve of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in the social media addiction trials. The report analyzes Zuckerberg’s testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2024 against newly unsealed documents that show Zuckerberg lied
View the poll results here Even More Damning Evidence and Documents From Google and Meta Uploaded to Big Tech on Trial Microsite WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project released a nationwide survey conducted by YouGov showing that a near-universal percentage of Americans are disgusted by Big Tech for recklessly
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project published the following top takeaways from the testimony from Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram and one of Meta’s highest-paid executives, in the social media addiction trials. In his testimony, Mosseri was challenged about his past statements on social media addiction, Meta’s
This week in The Dispatch: Big Tech CEOs who appear in Epstein files pouring tons of money into AI super PACs
This week in The Dispatch, we cover the social media addiction trials and dissect the Snap and TikTok settlements
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
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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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
This week in The Dispatch we’re covering the fight to pass California’s landmark kids’ AI safety bill, the Big Tech PAC money flooding politics, and Amazon’s $2.5B payout to dodge accountability.
