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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 ⬇️

By the numbers: ➡️ 17 different super PACs, 527s, and C4s across six different Big Tech-funded networks ➡️ Over $66 million in federal and state spending ➡️ Over $165 million raised across federal and state techoversight.org/ai-super-pa...

Tech Oversight Project | AI Super PAC Tracker

Executives from OpenAI, Palantir, and a16z are pouring hundreds of millions into AI super PACs. Their goal? Buy the Politicians. Control the Future of AI.

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Journalists, researchers, and the public can toggle by super PAC network and expand on any of the dark money orgs we're tracking for campaign finance data, political research, analysis, and recent reporting.

TRENDS: ➡️ By a 2-to-1 margin, Leading the Future has spent more money boosting Republicans and attacking Dems than on pro-Democratic ads ➡️ LTF has spent $4.76 million on ads for Dem incumbents without serious races or challengers ➡️ LTF's spending closely mirrors Trump’s

In addition to spending over $8 million on attack ads against Alex Bores, Leading the Future also spent $500,000 in adds to unseat Rep. Don Davis, a DCCC frontline and CBC member. LTF boosted the Trump-backed Laurie Buckhout in her rematch against Davis. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/20...

How a New York race became the first front in the AI industry’s midterm war

Competing AI interests poured millions into the Democratic primary, a taste of more spending to come this fall and elections beyond.

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STATE TRENDS: ➡️ AI safety spending is nowhere to be found. Anti-safety and industry-backed PACs spent over $20 million unchallenged ➡️ Meta's political spending in the states (OH, GA, TX, and AL) follow its much publicized push for data centers www.wsj.com/business/ea...

For a full analysis, read our release here: techoversight.org/2026/06/25/...

The Tech Oversight Project Launches Public AI Super PAC Research Book, Ad Library to Educate Voters on Big Tech Influence at Ballot Box - Tech Oversight Project

The tools track 17 Big Tech-funded super PACs that have spent over $65 million influencing federal and state elections across the country Findings show leading AI super PAC spending 2-to-1 against Democrats at federal level WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project launched first-of-its-kind public-access tools to document the out-of-control influence from AI super […]

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Many people are saying this.

This gives Big Tech companies more power, not less, by granting them maximalist preemption and the power to shape enforcement through the courts. This is a bad deal, and Obernolte and Trahan’s constituents know it, too. techoversight.org/2026/06/04/o...

TOP-PPP POLL: Obernolte and Trahan’s Constituents Oppose Their Efforts to Weaken AI Laws - Tech Oversight Project

Results showed a wide majority of Obernolte and Trahan’s respective constituents oppose efforts to weaken AI catastrophic risk protection and water down chatbot safety laws View the CA-23 results here...

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📍 MA-3, @trahan.house.gov: 👎 63% oppose her effort to weaken catastrophic-risk laws. 👎 71% oppose weakening Massachusetts' chatbot safety laws.

👎 58% are less likely to back a candidate who weakens those laws. 👎 66% are less likely to support one who waters down chatbot protections. 637 likely voters, May 19-20, MOE ±3.9% 🔗: techoversight.org/wp-content/u...

NOT GREAT: 51% of Trahan's constituents have serious concerns about her backing policies supported by the same Big Tech executives funding Trump's campaign and ballroom. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Tech, crypto, tobacco, other companies fund Trump’s White House ballroom

The donor list includes several billionaires who have looked to curry favor with the Trump administration.

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📍 CA-23, Rep. Jay Obernolte: 👎 56% oppose his effort to weaken California's AI catastrophic-risk laws. 👎 58% oppose weakening California's chatbot safety laws.

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. 🧵

Best/worst ten days of my life off to a good start imo

WE WON THE LEAGUE AT THE EMIRATES

$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.

It’s objectively drug store ed sheeran — with somehow even worse lyrics.

HAPPENING NOW: in their largest gathering ever, survivor parents & advocates are taking the #BigTechonTrial docs to the lawmakers who’ve refused to listen. It’s time to choose: are you with families or Big Tech?

We're proud to be joined by Humans First, @commoncause.org, @foeus.bsky.social, Fight Corporate Monopolies, Parents Rise, and more. Link to our letter: techoversight.org/2026/04/15/c...

COALITION LETTER: Disavow Support from Trump-Backed AI Super PACs - Tech Oversight Project

Watchdogs, Children’s Online Safety Groups call out Leading the Future’s Trump connections and dangers to children and teens onlineWashington, D.C. – Today, The Tech Oversight Project, alongside 13 ch...

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LTF is backed by Trump's loudest supporters. They directly profit from unsafe AI products and power ICE's surveillance and terrorization of our communities. We're asking @repsuhas.bsky.social, @gomez.house.gov, @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social, @liccardo.house.gov, and Rep. Gottheimer to disavow LTF.

If unchecked, Big Tech's agenda will lead to mass unemployment, unsafe AI products, and taxpayer-funded subsidies and gifts for the richest companies in the world. Don't believe us? Take their word for it. It's playing out right now.

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.

In the end, though, what made the verdict remarkable was the relative ordinariness of Kaley’s story..The jury award was a spur to understand a life recognizably shaped by social-media algorithms, in ways that were perhaps near-impossible to resist, as a serious injury to an entire generation.

What the Verdict Against Meta and Google Says About the Way We Live Now

Serving as a signal of a taste in the courts and among the public to have tech companies bear some of the costs of harm that they have allegedly caused, the recent verdict against Meta and Google in C...

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as we await the jury's decision now, we put together the takeaways from the last few weeks of the social media addiction trials. take a look 👀 ⤵️

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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

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.”

👀 Oh. The AI super PAC people are also the Jeffrey Epstein people.

SHOT: Bad take from OpenAI’s Chris Lehane about AI POPuLiSM CHASER: Sent from Davos