Project Liberty
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Project Liberty builds solutions that help people take back control of their lives in the digital age by reclaiming a voice, choice, and stake in a better internet. Find out more at https://projectliberty.io.
In our newsletter, @baratunde.com argues that agency is not productivity. AI enables us to do more. But that’s not agency. That’s capability. The AI companies want us to see one axis: capabilities. Move to the right and do more. But there’s another axis, power, and we are making no progress on it.
On the @projectliberty.io Substack, @audreyt.org makes the case that we need to think of data not like oil, which gets extracted, but rather like soil, which gets tilled.
Project Liberty Founder Frank McCourt spoke at @semafor.com World Economy Summit. His core message: a pro-human internet must be built on pro-human infrastructure that empowers people to control their data and online lives. For more, check out the Project Liberty Substack.
Have you seen the Protect What's Human ads? They're worth a watch: protectwhatshuman.org They're building a pro-human movement for commonsense regulation to keep AI safe and under our control.
Protect What’s Human
AI designed to replace people threatens our jobs, our families, and our way of life.
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📺 Tune in 1:30PM ET today as our own @tomicah.bsky.social testifies to the MN Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection in support of the Digital Choice Act. Catch the livestream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAdq...
Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection - 04/28/26
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Excellent interview. Featuring it in our newsletter this week!
Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 4mo agoHow our digital devices are putting our right to privacy at risk. Law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson chats with Ars about his new book, "Your Data Will Be Used Against You." arstechnica.com/culture/2026...
Most Americans don't feel in control of what social media companies collect about them. Now there's a tool to do something about it: The Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society is launching a new tool to help people reclaim control.
AI is betting big on the 2026 midterms Ads funded by the AI industry are starting to flood the 2026 midterm elections. Super PACs from two factions of the AI industry are pumping millions of dollars into 2026 primaries, backing and attacking candidates based on where they stand on AI regulation.
Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Our newsletter this week explores what Meta and YouTube’s loss in a landmark California trial on social media means for our digital future. Scroll down for more! And here’s Issue 41 of our Week in Review series. Let’s dive in 👇
A new report from the Project Liberty Institute, Social Web Foundation, Public AI, & @modalfoundation.eurosky.social stresses the importance of continued dialogue to create shared problem definitions, priorities, and identify next steps across research, standards development, and gov communities.
New work! Asking who controls the infrastructure of our social lives online—and what happens as AI agents mediate Co-authored with @mallory.techpolicy.social.ap.brid.gy @thelastjosh.bsky.social sh.bsky.social Sarah Nicole and Jessica Theodule @projectliberty.io www.projectliberty.io/news/ai-agen...
How do we know when we’re at a tipping point? Last week, a California jury might have answered it. It found Meta and YouTube legally liable for harming a young woman through addictive product design—the first verdict of its kind. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/t...
Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Our newsletter last week and this week explored the much-feared AI jobs crisis – and everything we know about AI’s impact on the labor market. Scroll down for more! And here are Issues 39+40 of our Week in Review series. Let’s dive in 👇
Happy Tuesday from Project Liberty! Last week’s newsletter is on interoperability: the secret sauce that keeps the internet open and accessible across platforms – now at an inflection point in the AI revolution. Scroll for more! And here’s Issue 38 of our Week in Review series. Let’s dive in 👇
We believe in an AI that serves and empowers people rather than replacing or diminishing them. That's why we signed the The Pro-Human AI Declaration alongside other colleagues and leaders in the AI industry. Read the full declaration: lnkd.in/eAxEZGFp
How To Make AI Good For Humanity
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Technologists can build an alternative AI tech stack There is a growing movement of technologists, like ours, and civil society organizations interested in building an alternative tech stack that affirms that humans, not AI agents or LLMs, are the owners of their data.
Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 5mo ago"Interoperability": the word that could save the internet Read more in this week's newsletter: projectlibertynewsletter.substack.com/p/is-ai-work...
Individuals can exercise agency now. Here are a few solutions: 🧳Move between platforms. Explore tools that talk to each other. 🔍 Know your data. Download your data & understand what was collected. 🧠 Practice cognitive sovereignty. Use AI in ways that extend your thinking, not replace it.
Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 5mo ago"Interoperability": the word that could save the internet Read more in this week's newsletter: projectlibertynewsletter.substack.com/p/is-ai-work...
"Interoperability": the word that could save the internet Read more in this week's newsletter: projectlibertynewsletter.substack.com/p/is-ai-work...
Happy Friday from Project Liberty! This week’s newsletter explores the dangers of outsourcing our cognition to “thinking machines” – AI agents that go far beyond Frank Herbert’s worst fears. And here’s Issue 37 of our Week in Review series. Let’s dive in 👇
⏰ New report: Building Digital Infrastructure for the AI Era: Insights from Middle Power States Featuring key findings from 13 government interviews on digital infrastructure www.projectliberty.io/news/buildin...
Building Digital Infrastructure for the AI Era: Insights from Middle Power States - Project Liberty
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At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, we convened governments and global partners for a timely discussion on Steering DPI & AI Innovation toward Public Value Maximisation. Photo Credit: Christopher Dunker
Happy Friday from Project Liberty! This week’s newsletter tackles a new study by The Collective Intelligence Project outlining 5 “paradoxes” around how people are using AI – and how they’re trusting it. And here’s Issue 36 of our Week in Review series. Let’s dive in 👇
Something strange is going on 🚫 People trust their AI more than elected representatives, civil servants, and faith leaders. 🚫 People trust their AI more than the companies that built them. 🚫 People consider AI part of their emotional support system but hide how much they use it
Your data feeds AI's memory. This week's newsletter examines how AI memory works, the tradeoffs it introduces for privacy, and the steps individuals can take to manage their data. email.projectliberty.io/your-data-is...
Your data is AI’s memory
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Is it too late to apply hard-earned lessons to Agentic AI? Before, “free” services cost consumers their privacy, their attention and their autonomy. Now, Frequency enables humans to control their data, personhood and attention via a decentralized, open alternative to Big Tech AI. Learn how:
Agency in the Agentic Age - Frequency Blog
The internet is entering a new phase. Software is no longer limited to displaying information or hosting conversations; it’s beginning to act on our behalf: filtering, recommending, scheduling, purch...
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Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s Issue 35 of our Week in Review series. Let’s dive in 👇
From #MSC2026 in Munich: Project Liberty Founder Frank McCourt joined @gzeromedia.com to discuss how we can rebuild the internet for democracy, arguing for people-centered design over exploitative platforms. 🔗 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUqZ...
Can we rebuild the Internet for democracy? | Global Stage
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Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s Issue 34 of our Week in Review series -- with AI cloud sovereignty a major theme this week, let’s dive in 👇
Our founder, Frank McCourt, writes in POLITICO on the urgency of building a better foundation for AI that embeds Western values and protects future generations -- and how our personal data is fueling the fight to shape our digital futures. 🗽 www.politico.eu/article/pers...
Personal data is the new battleground for democracy
As the world’s leaders gather in Munich, I call on them to help build a better foundation for AI that embeds Western values and protects future generations.
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