🗒️TOP STATEMENT: "ChatGPT drove minors to suicidal ideation, coached them through how to take their own lives, and dissuaded them from seeking medical help and counseling when they needed it most. Nothing could be more audacious than rolling a deadly product out at scale..."

@sachalouise.bsky.social on Google and CharacterAI settling lawsuits over teen suicides: “These lawsuits have awakened the world to how deadly AI chatbots can be by hauling these depraved companies into the spotlight."

If we don't see hallmark movies about data centers next holiday season, we riot.

🪨 Rampant scams on Meta's ad platforms 🪨 Trump's AI EO drawing fire from GOP 🪨 Big Tech's last-minute push to water down the NYS RAISE ACT All that, and more in this week's edition of The Dispatch. dispatch.techoversight.org/ending-publ...

@sachalouise.bsky.social: "Google wines and dines lawmakers for the same reason they are funding Trump’s ballroom: the American people increasingly dislike their products and distrust their leadership, so Google resorts to buying influence." www.levernews.com/google-bank...

The War on Christmas: Brought to you by Big Tech AI

Big Tech whistleblowers are heroes, and the pushback – and in some cases potential bankruptcy – they face for their bravery underscores how far Big Tech CEOs, like Mark Zuckerberg, are willing to go to silence the truth. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/...

LETTER: Over 150+ NYS parents, including survivor parents, are calling on Governor Hochul to sign the Raise Act as passed by the legislature – underscoring what's at stake. "Without this commonsense law...young people and their families will be first to bear the consequences."

The War on Christmas: Brought to you by Big Tech AI

@sachalouise.bsky.social: "Google wines and dines lawmakers for the same reason they are funding Trump’s ballroom: the American people increasingly dislike their products and distrust their leadership, so Google resorts to buying influence." www.levernews.com/google-bank...

LETTER: Over 150+ NYS parents, including survivor parents, are calling on Governor Hochul to sign the Raise Act as passed by the legislature – underscoring what's at stake. "Without this commonsense law...young people and their families will be first to bear the consequences."

After losing in Congress twice, Big Tech is punishing states protecting people from AI harms. @sachalouise.bsky.social : The Trump-Sacks EO proves that the WH only listens to powerful Big Tech CEOs who fund ballrooms rather than the everyday people they pretend to serve.

Grocery prices are up 25% since 2020 and Instacart is quietly running AI pricing experiments, charging different shoppers up to 23% more than others — for the same products, at the same time, at the same store. That ain’t right. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/...

We need AI guardrails so badly. Even tech executives are succumbing to psychosis and committing horrible acts. We cannot afford to give Big Tech AI amnesty.

Our airports, power grids, financial systems, and defense pipelines run on opaque, unregulated AI, which foreign adversaries are already attacking. Those systems need oversight and guardrails. Trump’s EO makes a bad national security situation even worse. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/...

This week in The Dispatch we wrote about a House Energy and Commerce hearing mulling a version of KOSA that’s so watered down, it's opposed by the survivor parents who have championed the legislation. Meanwhile:

Newly unsealed Meta court documents show what the company has denied for years: its products harm children, its executives ignored internal warnings, predators and traffickers operated freely on the platform, and Meta misled Congress and the public about what it knew.

🧾 ICYMI: Another example of Big Tech co-opting the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) to launder their talking points, and whitewash the damage Meta and TikTok products are causing to a generation of children and teens. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/26/...

This is an illegal workaround that the Trump Admin and the Big Tech AI companies are using because they don't have the votes for AI amnesty in Congress. This will harm kids, raise prices, and scam hardworking people out of their money.

📬 INBOX ALERT: This week in The Dispatch, we cover Meta’s 17-strike system for sexual predators, the AI super PACs trying to buy Congress, and how White House AI czar David Sacks is shaping an industry he’s invested in hundreds of times over. dispatch.techoversight.org/new-smoking...

California may have passed several laws meant to protect children online, but families say there's still a long way to go. Advocate Julianna Arnold, whose daughter was groomed on Instagram before her death, is gearing up for a renewed push to pass stronger regulations in 2026

If Big Tech CEOs are buying Trump ballrooms, every member of Congress should be demanding to know what, exactly, Big Tech thinks they're getting in exchange thehill.com/policy/tech...

More AI data-center proposals are stalling after residents point out the obvious — their power bills are spiking as Big Tech demands subsidies. Local opposition is gaining steam as a powerful check on these companies and their outrageous demands.

Data centers are already wrecking people’s wallets with sky-high utility bills. Now Oregon families are dealing with miscarriages, kidney loss, rare cancers — all tied to nitrate-tainted water supercharged by Amazon’s cooling demands. futurism.com/artificial-...

“The Big Tech AI industry is only interested in one thing: zero laws, zero accountability...that’s why Big Tech CEOs are putting big money behind efforts to repeal and neuter laws at the federal, state, and international levels.” - @sachalouise.bsky.social

in case folks are listening there is a glaring political opportunity in front of us and Democrats would be stupid not to take it up. but oh by the way you have to name the villain: it's big tech

Meta knowingly let millions of adult strangers contact minors. The same company that allowed its AI to have sexual conversations with children. The same company behind a super PAC that’s trying to stop states from enacting commonsense safeguards for AI.

🚨 NEWLY UNSEALED DOCS: Meta had a 17-STRIKE policy for sexual predators and sex traffickers on its platforms. Docs also have smoking-gun proof that Meta lied to Congress about correlation between its dangerous products and increased anxiety and depression.

Big Tech’s data-center boom runs on NDAs — billion-dollar projects officials can’t describe, negotiate, or even identify. Communities pay higher utility costs while Big Tech turns public infrastructure into private property. dispatch.techoversight.org/big-tech-ac...

Mark Zuckerberg has blood on his hands. Here's our statement. techoversight.org/2025/11/22/m...

Big Tech’s AI money scheme is simple: they invest in a startup, the startup is required to spend the money right back on their cloud, and everyone pretends it’s “growth.” At best, it's a house of cards. At worst, it's a bubble. Read more in The Dispatch: dispatch.techoversight.org/big-tech-ac...

Mark Zuckerberg has blood on his hands. Here's our statement. techoversight.org/2025/11/22/m...

pay very close attention to this "100% confidence" standard because it's the same one AI companies like openAI use to determine whether or not a user is talking about killing themselves:

oh! using AI for good at lea--- err, nvm. job well done @mosseri.bsky.social!

Oh neat Instagram execs also found a way to make preteen girls not so anorexic or suicidal but it hurt engagement so they killed the feature

4 million users under 13 in 2015. mark zuckerberg was letting pedophiles contact children and has known about it for over a decade

how many kids have taken their own lives because they were sextorted since 2019

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yes, the answer is yes

Meta's internal research found that logging off FB & Instagram for a week improved mental health so they buried it of course

Good morning to everyone except for the Meta executives who were aware that millions of adult strangers were contacting minors on its sites, knew Instagram was letting adult strangers connect with teenagers, aggressively targeted young users, & then "lied to Congress" about it!

AOC is wise to the fact that the AI industry is openly angling for government bailouts. The AI industry is already a product of corporate welfare policies (incl dispensations from copyright enforcement and data center permitting) but it's about to get worse. fintechdystopia.com/chapters/cha...

"In effect, the judge preserved the very monopoly he ruled unlawful — and turned it into a down payment on the next one." We wrote about how Google's "punishment" for monopolizing search is giving it the freedom to monopolize new AI markets. dispatch.techoversight.org/big-tech-ac...

Big Tech wanted federal AI preemption. Voters didn’t. Congress didn’t. So Trump is trying to do it alone — overriding states to protect Big Tech profits, not the public. techoversight.org/2025/11/20/...

Big Tech spent a year trying to erase state AI protections. Congress said no. Trump’s EO tries again — overriding states so companies can dodge liability for harms their own engineers keep warning about. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tr...

The Trump Administration's plan to issue an executive order which aims to block & preempt state AI laws "threatens to create a taxpayer-funded death panel that will determine whether kids live or die when they decide what state laws will actually apply." - @sachalouise.bsky.social

"To be clear: Nothing has fundamentally changed between now and Big Tech’s stunning 99-1 defeat...except that more people have been scammed and more kids are dead. Democrats and Republicans need to rise up and defeat this Big Tech handout once and for all.” - @sachalouise.bsky.social

"Big Tech AI’s dangerous products are killing people, discriminating against vulnerable communities, and jacking up energy bills. Americans cannot afford AI amnesty." - @sachalouise.bsky.social Our statement on resurrecting the politically toxic AI preemption law techoversight.org/2025/11/19/...

When celebrities are talking about AI chatbot harms, deepfakes, land grabs, and data centers that drain local power and public money, it's no longer a niche policy fight. More on how Big Tech Accountability is Winning the Culture Wars: dispatch.techoversight.org/big-tech-ac...