History repeats.

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

In addition to censorship, the Trump Administration is speaking FOR people. Partisan Language Inserted Into Education Dept. Workers’ Automated Emails blaming Democrat Senators for government shutdown www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Apple Takes Down ICE Tracking Apps in response to Trump Pressure Campaign in yet another attack on #freespeech. I’m deeply disappointed to see yet another corporation cave without resisting. This censorship is particularly problematic given its App Store monopoly. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Amid threats to EU sovereignty & digital regulation, what was the EU ambassador to the US’ message to #BigTech? “We love you” & “We will continue to love you” & Europe has more Google search users than we have citizens. No mention of its illegal monopoly, censorial threats against trade & DST. #fail

I wish I were subscribed to @disneyplus and @hulu so I could unsubscribe

So now the Trump administration is trying to equate peaceful sidewalk chalk messages with terrorism? Wow. www.arlnow.com/2025/09/19/c...

CJL Director @courtneyr.bsky.social joined the @dawnnews.tv DigiPod team to discuss the real world harms caused by our reliance on "self-regulation" from the makers of AI chatbots. Catch the full conversation here: youtu.be/Wt_sbumFGPo?...

Another late night show goes off air after ABC caves to FCC pressure to cancel @jimmykimmel.com www.linkedin.com/posts/radsch...

This proposal should be blocked by the FCC, if it ever does materialize. Its approval will only lead to further erosion of antitrust laws, freedom of the press, and dangerously shrink media plurality and diversity in America. www.wsj.com/business/med...

The oligarchs are consolidating all of the legacy media. This would leave David Ellison, son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, in control of CBS News and CNN. On top of that, 2 major studios in Paramount and Warner Bros. This is a hostile takeover of the information space. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Interesting: The director of D.C. government operations for the D.C. National Guard emailed the city's 300+ Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners today to ask for suggestions on projects where Guard can help on "neighborhood beautification efforts."

Wondering how your newsroom can navigate the AI economy? Are you in NOLA for #ONA25? Join us @CJL4News for "From RAGS to Riches: Revenue Opportunities in the Emerging AI Content Licensing Market" & hear from @TollbitOfficial, @sphere_labs & @scalepostai. More at ona25.journalists.org/schedule

The "ombudsman" forced upon CBS news by its regulator, the Federal Communication Communication, has spent years championing right-wing causes, lavishing praise on Trump-friendly media figures, and railing against the 'liberal media.'' www.status.news/p/cbs-news-o...

What’s happening to CBS News is neither complicated nor subtle. www.mediamatters.org/cbs/how-cbs-...

"FTC chair Andrew Ferguson last week accused Google of designing its Gmail spam filters to have a partisan effect ... claiming Gmail had “been caught this summer flagging Republican fundraising emails as ‘dangerous’ spam.” Isn't that how e-trash is supposed to work? www.pymnts.com/cpi-posts/ft...

After 5 long years, a federal court found that Google had an unlawful monopoly and then did little to address it. Here’s DuckDuckGo’s statement from the other site:

Disappointing but better than nothing. Judge Orders Google to Share Search Results to Help Resolve Monopoly but fallls ahort of meaningful structural remedies and adressing Google’s anticompetitive data advantage www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

Except we don’t regulate Google… www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/g...

“the 2,300 or so troops deployed to stem the “magnitude of the violent crime” in the nation’s capital, where threats of high-priced coffee, spandex-clad cyclists and more salmon pants than a Ralph Lauren factory loom around every pothole-riddled corner” www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/mil...

The process for issuing these subpoenas was so irregular, the prosecutor for El Chapo declined to sign them after expressing grave concerns. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

It seems we're all finally having ENOUGH of Google's PR trying to cover the sun with one finger. Good catch by @pressgazette.co.uk @charlottetobitt.bsky.social pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/go...

Google told to 'stop the BS' as it claims AI has not harmed website clickthroughs pressgazette.co.uk/p...

Who wouldn’t want to listen to me and @achapell.bsky.social spar about privacy on @monopolyreport.bsky.social? www.monopolyreportpod.com/episode-41-d...

The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/ The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone* www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...

16 press freedom, civil society & labor groups urge the FCC to think twice before abandoning limits on media consolidation: "Allowing for even more media consolidation poses too great a risk to our democracy, and to the free press on which it depends." www.journalismliberty.org/publications...

When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together. With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection. If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

On Saturday night, the Israeli Defense Forces surrounded, beat, and choked American labor leader Chris Smalls as they unlawfully boarded an aid ship trying to reach Gaza. Smalls was the only Black person on the flotilla and was punished much more severely than anyone else. https://trib.al/jcTiJiD

"When a single company can implement a rights-respecting, consent-based access regime at scale, it’s worth asking why public institutions have failed to do the same. And whether relying on private actors to establish norms is a sustainable path forward,” notes @courtneyr.bsky.social:

Google hit by yet another antitrust complaint, this time over AI Overviews- a.k.a. plagiarized snippets-which publishers cant opt-out of. The search giant is using its market power to flout copyright law & secure its dominance in the transition to generative search www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Canada's digital services tax provokes Trump retaliation in the latest twist in this Kafkaesque free speech battle x.com/joel_kaplan/...

Fox News host Will Cain: "The 'No Secret Police Act' would ban local, state, and federal law enforcement from covering their faces when interacting with the public. Officers would also have to wear identifying information on them, like name tags. Hard to believe this is real!"

SCOOP w/ @leahfeiger.bsky.social! The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/far-ri...

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

Zohran Mamdani, who recently cross-endorsed with Lander, called for the comptroller’s immediate release. “This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice,” said Mamdani.

"Business Insider identified 1,240 data centers in America already built or approved for construction at the end of last year — the most comprehensive tally to date. That's nearly four times the number in 2010."

We can help protect democracy by addressing tech leaders' ability to shape the news & information hundreds of millions of people consume & exchange online. @courtneyr.bsky.social speaks with @ibanews.bsky.social on this urgent issue here: www.ibanet.org/Protecting-d...

Corporate Pride Is Dying. Good. "This was never allyship; it was a highly lucrative protection racket" writes @austinahlman.bsky.social for @theintercept.com on why the sudden withdrawal of big corporate sponsors from Pride events is an opportunity, not a crisis. theintercept.com/2025/06/05/c...

"Trump sits in the White House thanks largely to the rage of citizens Democrats betrayed. He raises mobs using systems of communications Democrats led the way in corrupting. He leverages the power of private autocrats that Democrats led the way in empowering" washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/01/r...

Earlier this year, the Observatory on Information and Democracy released a report called INFORMATION ECOSYSTEMS AND TROUBLED DEMOCRACY: A Global Synthesis of the State of Knowledge on News Media, AI and Data Governance. Justin Hendrix spoke to Robin Mansell and Courtney Radsch about its findings.

@courtneyr.bsky.social spoke with ‪@lwvme.bsky.social about how concentrated power over our information platforms threatens journalism & democracy-- and how to address it, most importantly! Tune in: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7M5...

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

I cannot go two seconds in Google Docs without fucking Gemini butting in like “can I help you turn your careful and detailed writing that people pay you by the hour for into some hot garbage that doesn’t make sense??? no??? how about now? okay how about now? how about now? how about now? how about

ChatGPT weighs in: America still calls itself a democracy. Reality disagrees.

How can we address the structural problems at the heart of today’s social media platforms rather than merely applying “fixes around the edges”? Co-hosts @alexaraad.bsky.social and @lesliedaigle.bsky.social talk with Courtney Radsch ( @courtneyr.bsky.social ) . www.techsequences.org/podcasts/202...

Le Monde signs a RAG deal with Perplexity that doesn’t include training gains access to Sonar, a chatbot grounded in its own content for search etc, claiming the pioneer mantel though so far there haven’t been any AI deals with any other French publishers www.lemonde.fr/le-monde-et-...