📰 NEW REPORT: THE AI ELECTION – out just in time for #ElectionDay. From 2020 to 2024, Democrats ran just TWO ads mentioning Big Tech or data centers. This cycle, candidates in more than 130 races did. 🧵

🍎 Yesterday evening @sachalouise.bsky.social sat down with @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social's Inside City Hall to urge @governor.ny.gov to sign New York’s AI chatbot safety bill. “At the end of the day, it’s just a defective product.” ny1.com/nyc/all-bor...

Lawmakers urge Hochul to sign bill to protect kids from AI chatbots

In New York, Albany lawmakers have passed a number of AI-related bills including one that seeks to protect minors from AI chatbots.

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“AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems and protect the public from the harm they cause … The open web is a public good.” — Wikimedia's Selena Deckelmann diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/...

OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

Recently, multiple organisations have disclosed how clusters of so-called “rogue” AI agents attempted to break into websites and online services, sometimes successfully. Agents from OpenAI’s enviro…

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"Tech companies and their executives committed more than $126 million of the $333 million raised, far more than any other industry..."

BOMBSHELL DOCS: Big Tech Is the Biggest Bankroller of Trump’s Ballroom - Tech Oversight Project

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, The Tech Oversight Project blasted Big Tech companies for bankrolling President Trump’s White House ballroom after a bombshell Washington Post investigation revealed the full l...

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📕 Yearlong Senate #MakeBigTechPay investigation into data centers finds: - Big Tech companies get huge tax breaks - Jobs barely materialize - 0/7 of the developers investigated would agree to cover new power infrastructure built to serve them time.com/article/202...

🎬 Hollywood has found its new villain, and it runs a Big Tech monopoly. That's this week's top story in The Dispatch, your weekly updates on all things tech accountability. dispatch.techoversight.org/big-tech-ba...

Big Tech Backlash Hits the Big Screen

This week in The Dispatch: Hollywood turns on the tech titans; AI companies dodge the New York City Council; and rogue agents hit Wikipedia.

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Yesterday Gov. Newsom signed a package of youth online safety bills we're proud to have fought for, including the Kids Code 2.0, which we co-sponsored, and Adam's Law. Big Tech lobbyists spent years trying to stop these bills. They lost; California families won.

TOP's @sachalouise.bsky.social: "This is a historic settlement that will have a lasting impact, but we cannot truly protect all children and teens until these protections are required on every platform and are permanent – that’s something only Congress can do." techoversight.org/2026/08/26/...

The Tech Oversight Project Statement on Historic Multi-State $17 Billion Settlement with Meta - Tech Oversight Project

Statement from Sacha Haworth, Executive Director of The Tech Oversight Project: “Twenty-nine attorneys general dragged Meta into court and forced it to protect our kids — overnight shutoffs, daily limits our kids can’t loosen without a parent, and an independent monitor watching Meta’s books for a decade. Meta must now pay over $12 billion to […]

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New @navigatorsurvey.bsky.social: BIG TECH IS A BIG NO ☝️ Battleground voters have very serious concerns about Big Tech's role in American society, see tech CEOs as part of the corruption problem in DC, and overwhelmingly want their lawmakers to act.

🚨 BREAKING: Right before today's key Senate Judiciary Committee vote, lobbyists are pushing to strip the COMPETE Act's private right of action – a change that would essentially hand Big Tech immunity. 🧵x.com/LeeHepner/s...

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Apropos the make or break vote on the COMPETE Act, happening this morning, the antitrust private right of action is critical. Antitrust enforcement cannot devolve into a budget fight for public enforcement. It is a political threat that will allow monopolies to flourish.

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This u, bro? Author of @sacbee.com op-ed slamming CA’s anti-monopoly COMPETE Act & fearmongering about Google impacts was paid >$150,000 by Google

DOUBLE STANDARD ALERT: For Meta whistleblower: a gag order, surveillance at public events, & millions in $ penalties for each alleged violation of her non-disparagement deal - aka for daring to speak For Zuckerberg: White House help dodging basic Qs about why he lied to Congress & endangered kids

NEW: Today, TOP launched a first-of-its-kind AI Super PAC research book and ad library to provide journalists, researchers, and the public with real-time campaign finance data, political research, and a plethora of ads Big Tech is running across the country. 🧵 More details ⬇️

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💪 🍎 New York just passed the strongest youth AI protections in the country, UNANIMOUSLY. Shoutout to the lawmakers in both chambers who stood with families and refused to let Big Tech write the rules 👏 👏 techoversight.org/2026/06/05/...

The Tech Oversight Project Calls on Gov. Hochul to Sign New York's Nation-Leading Youth Chatbot Safety Bill - Tech Oversight Project

The Tech Oversight Project today applauded the New York State Legislature’s unanimous final passage of the nation-leading youth chatbot safety bill (S.9051/A.10379), sponsored by State Senator Kristen Gonzalez and Assemblymember Alex Bores and developed in cooperation with Attorney General Letitia James. “In a year when Big Tech killed or gutted chatbot safety bills in state […]

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TOP-PPP POLLING: Voters in Rep. Jay Obernolte (CA-23) and @trahan.house.gov's (MA-3) districts oppose their push to weaken and preempt AI safety laws. Their bill would let Big Tech wipe out state child safety, civil rights & consumer protections. 🧵

"The revelation that OpenAI’s ChatGPT advised a mass shooter to target children shows that we need protections and oversight across the board. Without guardrails in place for everybody, AI companies are putting targets on kids' and teens' backs." – @sachalouise.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/ben...

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NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/openai-sued-chatgpts-alleged-role-guiding-fsu-shooter-rcna344443

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MUSK vs. ALTMAN: More than just "the girls are fighting," this case represents an absolute lose-lose for the American people. An OpenAI win opens the door to cynical for-profit conversion plays with no accountability. A Musk win paves the way for his own potential AI monopoly.

$653 million in political donations. $200,000 a day in lobbying. 307 lobbyists — more than 1 for every 2 members of Congress. You don't spend like this when the public is on your side. You spend like this when you need to buy the referees. Read this week's Dispatch for more.

NEW: Big Tech's AI money is flooding campaigns across the country. OpenAI, Palantir, and a16z are spending hundreds of millions to oppose candidates who support AI safety, chatbot protections, and data privacy. We're calling on Dems to disavow Big Tech's Trump-connected backers.

PARENTS DEMAND ACTION: Moments after yesterday's landmark verdict, survivor parents gathered on the courthouse steps to issue an urgent call for Congress to finally hold social media companies accountable.

HISTORIC VERDICT: “The era of Big Tech invincibility is over – this ruling is an earthquake that shakes Big Tech’s predatory business model to its core." -- @sachalouise.bsky.social techoversight.org/2026/03/25/...

The Tech Oversight Project Heralds Verdict in Social Media Addiction Trials as an Earthquake for Big Tech - Tech Oversight Project

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 by plaintiff K.G.M., who experienced dangerous mental health […]

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DECISION TIME: The jury has headed into deliberations in the landmark bellwether KGM social media addiction trial in Los Angeles. Parents and young people are gathered outside the courthouse and tuning in across the country and around the world as we await an historic verdict. #BigTechAddictsKids

Real change does not start with a headline. It starts with people. We are standing together for a healthier digital future. #StandForTheirAttention

NEW: Ex-Meta engineer Arturo Bejar's testimony in the landmark L.A. trial sheds new light on WHY execs like Zuckerberg knew everything but refused to act. Oh, and this whistleblower brought receipts 🧾🧾🧾

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says, “Kids under 13 aren’t allowed on our services.” That's a lie. 2015: Internal review found 4 million kids on Instagram. 2017: Meta employees, we're "going after <13 year olds” – Zuckerberg had been talking about this “for a while.”

NEW: Illustrations from inside the courtroom show Mark Zuckerberg being sworn in and confronted with evidence as the Meta CEO testified this morning in the ongoing landmark social media trials in Los Angeles. #BigTechAddictsKids

As Mark Zuckerberg takes the stand TODAY in the landmark social media addiction trials, newly unsealed case documents show how he has lied to Congress and the American people. #BigTechAddictsKids

“Oh my gosh yall IG is a drug” – internal Instagram messages, 2020 Right now, @mosseri, Head of @Instagram, is standing trial in Los Angeles for harming kids.

As Stanford's leading expert on addiction testified yesterday: Social media addiction is real—and Big Tech designed it for kids. See the evidence: techoversight.org/bigtechontrial #BigTechAddictsKids