This week in The Dispatch: AI Super PACs have different rules for D's and R's; OpenAI's serial liar; and states start making Big Tech pay.
This week in The Dispatch: How YouTube execs addicted kids; Big Tech collects billions in new tax breaks; the AI preemption push runs out of friends; and Gen Z has had enough.
This week in The Dispatch: A jury finds Meta and Google liable in a landmark verdict; Meta's insurance dries up; as Big Tech reels in court, it's quietly trying to sneak liability shields through state legislatures; and a new poll shows America is souring on AI.
LOS ANGELES, CA – Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following statement after a verdict was handed down in the first case in the social media addiction trials. This was the first product liability case to go to trial that any Big Tech company has faced and was brought forward
This week in the Dispatch: A damages question from the jury signals where deliberations could be heading; the AI preemption fight is back and uglier than ever; and Meta's big Illinois spending spree backfires.
This week in The Dispatch: The K.G.M. trial awaits a verdict, and Senate Judiciary puts Meta on blast for failing to comply with investigations.
This week in The Dispatch: Meta whistleblower drops bombshells in court; House Republicans hand tech CEOs a get-out-of-jail-free card; and state lawmakers are fed up with Big Tech's stranglehold on Trump’s D.C
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
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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
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.