"Netflix threatens speech through market power, and Paramount Skydance threatens it through demonstrated capitulation. Both are bad." - @courtneyr.bsky.social in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Flock's ambitions go far beyond license-plate surveillance,” EFF’s @cooperq.com told @404Media.co. “Flock's goal isn't to catch stolen cars, their goal is to have total surveillance of everyone all the time." www.404media.co/flock-expos...

Not old enough to remember personally but he is a legend and an icon of journalism for a reason

I’m old enough to remember when CBS News would never have surrendered to a demagogic president or any other politician. Remember Edward R. Murrow?

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...

Our statement from @courtneyr.bsky.social is here: “U.S. senators are finally confronting the serious threat of consolidated media censorship and quid pro quo interference that has unfolded during this administration..." www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

Yep, that’s me. How do you keep a straight face when the head of an INDEPENDENT REGULATOR can’t answer what he swore when he took his oath of office or clarify that the president is NOT his boss & that YES the FCC is independent. Also couldn’t t keep quiet www.journalismliberty.org/publications...

Unclear if this is actually policy or just Trump shooting from the hip. But we agree that that the broadcast ownership cap should NOT be lifted. Broadcast is already highly consolidated. Stay tuned 📺

Find our full statement, from @courtneyr.bsky.social, on why this illegal merger must be blocked here: 3/3 www.journalismliberty.org/publications...

🚨 Brussels, today 🚨Ursula! Stand up for Europe – not for Trump’s tech bros! As the EU unveils its “Digital Omnibus” today, we're rolling out billboards calling on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to stop bending to US and Big Tech pressure and enforce our digital laws #StandUpUrsula✊

Did FoloToy seriously think that integrating ChatGPT, a product linked to several suicides and which has so many safety issues that you can't fit them in a single tweet (post?), was a good idea? And OpenAI of course didn't stop it. mashable.com/article/chat...

We had a great discussion with @courtneyr.bsky.social on "Big Tech + Big Brother: Resisting ‘techno-fascism’ and the surveillance state" at the @globalfreemedia.bsky.social World Congress & Media Innovation Festival in Vienna on October 25. Credit © Ronja Koskinen / IPI

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

For more check out a new policy brief authored by my colleague @courtneyr.bsky.social and me on why platform monopolies – not EU regulation – are the real threat to freedom of speech. www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

We welcome the release of the crucial OSCE report "Safeguarding Media Freedom in the Age of Big Tech Platforms and AI" and are thrilled it recommends several reforms championed by our Center for Journalism & Liberty. Full statement from center director @courtneyr.bsky.social:

Ireland has appointed a Data Protection Commissioner who formerly held a senior public affairs role at Meta – disregarding EU law & treaties. The govt must conduct a new, transparent process to appoint an official with a strong record of protecting human rights. www.article19.org/resources/ir...

Defenders of a rules-based intl order must “recognize that Big Tech’s anti-regulatory agenda will outlast the Trump Admin so long as trade policy remains a mechanism through which the US and others can restrict governments’ tech policy choices” @astienon.bsky.social techpolicy.press/how-europe-c...

"[The platforms] are not neutral hosts; they are political actors with extraordinary power to distort the public sphere and undermine democracy in the United States and around the world." Read @courtneyr.bsky.social on Europe's fight against Big Tech: www.techpolicy.press/why-europes-...

Yet another reason why local News is more trusted than national news, which failed to fairly & accurately cover the mass mobilization for No Kings while often granting outsized coverage to fringe white nationalist & Tea Party protests. Same as when I worked at @nytimes.com during Iraq war protests

Media is an ecosystem and journalism is its keystone species. Whatever you think of journalists, the system collapses without them. This and more from @courtneyr.bsky.social of @openmarkets.bsky.social on the latest episode of In Reality.

Day 2 of our Future of Democracy with @openmarkets.bsky.social! Follow along to hear from Nobel Peace Prize winner @mariaressa.bsky.social, @alexandrageese.bsky.social, Mira Milosevic, @dimi.wikimedia.brussels, @courtneyr.bsky.social + ARTICLE 19's Quinn McKew www.youtube.com/live/vZTwYPS...

No matter how many times I hear @mariaressa.bsky.social talk about her experience, her work, her analysis of manipulation and influence operations conducted on & by #BigTech platforms, I’m inspired to keep fighting against concentration of power in our info ecosystem & for pro-democracy alternative

With this year’s California legislative session officially in the rearview mirror, it’s time to take stock of what bills related to tech policy made it through the lobbying gauntlet and over Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Jasmine Mithani.

Great panel to discuss policies to protect online expression: Labour MP @chionwurah.bsky.social, @alemanno.bsky.social, Thomas Hughes at Appeals Centre Europe, and @corneliawoll.bsky.social at Hertie School Berlin, in conversation with @maxvonthun.bsky.social ▶️ www.youtube.com/live/KlO8ta8...

Hard to decide if Google’s next antitrust battle will be YouTube or Chrome or Gemini. This is good arg for YT. Spotify & Netflix Gun for YouTube's Eyeballs The video podcast partnership may portend a bundle...

If someone has to give it to you for you to have it then it’s not a right.

Platform Power, Free Speech, and Political Interference: Defending Europe’s Digital Sovereignty, a new policy brief by me and my @openmarkets.bsky.social colleague @maxvonthun.bsky.social is out today www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

Now on stage: Our first panel with David Kaye, Former UN Special Rapporteur @davidakaye.bsky.social, Sasha Havlicek at @isdglobal.org, and MEP Alexandra Geese @alexandrageese.bsky.social. Moderated by @courtneyr.bsky.social at @cjl4news.bsky.social. Tune in here: www.youtube.com/live/KlO8ta8...

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...