Sarah Wynn-Williams blew the whistle. Meta's response is to bully her into bankruptcy for telling the truth.

When some of my Republican colleagues tried to pass a moratorium through our last spending bill, AGs from across the states — red, white, and blue — sent a letter to Congress saying: please don't do this to our state laws.” - @raskin.house.gov

This is what the AI moratorium is all about – exempting Big Tech AI companies from all state laws in exchange FOR NOTHING. Why would we trade away labor rights, civil rights, kids safety, and environmental protections to give Big Tech a get-out-of-jail-free card?

📺 HAPPENING NOW: House Judiciary Republicans come out the gate with unequivocal support for a sweeping, broad AI moratorium, which will repeal laws protect kids and make CSAM illegal in states like in states like Alabama, Arizona, California, and more.

Trump's Dept. of Energy just ordered Pennsylvania’s aging Eddystone gas plant to stay open past retirement in case it’s needed to keep Big Tech’s data centers powered — forcing every electric customer in PA to pay higher rates.

"What we saw today is that engagement-at-all-costs has a price, and it could be any one of our children’s lives." -@sachalouise Our statement after today’s Senate hearing on Big Tech’s AI chatbots:

A new survey by the Institute for Family Studies shows Americans overwhelmingly agree — by a 9-to-1 margin — that tech companies should be prohibited from deploying AI chatbots that engage in sexual conversations with kids.

📬INBOX ALERT: This week in The Dispatch we’re covering Ted Cruz’s new AI bill, whistleblower testimony of another Meta cover-up, and polling that shows voters across party lines want guardrails on Big Tech.

At the @econliberties.bsky.social Anti-Monopoly Summit, @chrismurphyct.bsky.social called out Big Tech's predatory product designs for damaging our social fabric. "These technology companies are building capacities, perfecting capacities that are designed to keep people addicted to the internet.”

California’s kids’ safety law just cleared a big hurdle. Courts are siding with protections for children — while Big Tech scrambles to defend algorithms built to frack kids attention. Thanks to @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov for defending the law and standing up for kids.

“Meta’s immediate response was not to do the right thing but rather roll out new processes to manipulate control and erase data.” Whistleblowers keep surfacing because the company keeps recklessly endangering kids.

WH OSTP Director Michael Kratsios and Senator Ted Cruz again peddling the 99-1 defeated AI moratorium, which was opposed by state lawmakers, AGs, governors, and advocates on both sides of the aisle. Watch ⬇️

"The only innovation happening in this bill is creating new ways for the Trump Administration to strip away standards that hold Big Tech accountable for violating privacy, endangering kids online, and letting scammers rip off seniors and veterans.” - @sachalouise.bsky.social

Senators Cruz’s AI sandbox bill is a Big Tech giveaway that recklessly trades away rights that protect everyday Americans from Big Tech’s predatory business practices and algorithms. Our statement ⬇️

📺LIVE: WH OSTP Director is testifying before the Senate Commerce about Trump's "action plan" and Big Tech giveaways in Cruz's AI bill, which would let Trump trade away protections for seniors and children to dole out favors to Big Tech CEOs.

You literally don't want to know what's in the box.

👀WE'RE WATCHING: At 2:30 PM whistleblowers will testify before the Senate Judiciary — about how Meta suppressed research and deleted evidence that kids were being harmed across its platforms. Follow along:

📬INBOX ALERT: This week in The Dispatch we’re covering the new confounding Google antitrust remedy ruling, new Meta whistleblowers, and Big Tech corruption in the White House.

📖 REQUIRED READING: Ahead of today’s @JudiciaryGOP hearing, catch up w/a brief TLDR on the now-numerous whistleblower ex-employees & the details they’ve exposed about @Meta & Mark Zuckerberg’s pattern of dishonesty, lawbreaking, and reckless endangerment of kids online.

"Meta ordered its researchers to delete evidence that the company was breaking the law & endangering minors. That's cause for a deep investigation into Mark Zuckerberg's leadership." [email protected]

Sir, a second whistleblower story has hit

🚨REPORT: A new investigation shows Meta buried evidence that kids weren’t safe in its “Metaverse.” If this was their M.O. for virtual reality, why should we trust their chatbots?

“We call on other regulators and California lawmakers to follow @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov's example and address the youth chatbot crisis with the seriousness and urgency it requires.” [email protected]

In exchange for protection against wrongful death lawsuits, antitrust scrutiny, privacy scandals, and child-safety cover-ups, the price of entry? Praising the newly paved, umbrella lined rose garden. Too bad it rained.

The “teen accounts” were just the latest cover — and their “protections” collapse the second a kid looks for a hashtag. They weren’t built to protect young people. They were built to protect Meta.

Big Tech CEOs are dining with Trump while facing lawsuits over child deaths and monopoly abuses. “They’re hoping to buy their way out of the many lawsuits and legislation coming to hold them accountable. This is corruption in the Rose Garden.” - @sachalouise.bsky.social

it is wildly inappropriate & corrupt for a president whose administration is investigating many of these Big Tech companies to HOST THEM AT A PARTY IN THE ROSE GARDEN. we've jumped the shark completely. this should be front page scandal à la the Clinton tarmac meeting!! thehill.com/homenews/adm...

“We may not have 100 million dollars, but we are armed and ready too.” -‪ @sachalouise.bsky.social As the California legislature heads into its last 2 weeks of voting this year, we teamed up w/ @econliberties.bsky.social, Encode & @techequity.us to urge lawmakers to deliver real protections.

Judge Mehta had a chance to uphold and enforce the law. Instead, he declined to hold Google accountable and allowed them to consolidate their power in the AI industry. This ruling falls short of this historic moment. Statement from @sachalouise.bsky.social here:

A teen is dead because ChatGPT encouraged him to conceal his pain and coached him on how to take his life – a feature, not a bug. @sachalouise.bsky.social for @msnbc.com says, chatbots “are designed to produce engagement and keep kids hooked — even when they need off-ramps for real-world help."

The same wk the parents of a teen who took his own life w the help of ChatGPT sued OpenAI, Meta & Big Tech AI announced they'd be playing in political elections. I wrote in @MSNBC how Big Tech willingly risks the lives of our kids & how lawmakers must reject their $$$. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

OpenAI has checked off the murder-suicide box.

👀 Google Public Policy: From “Don’t Be Evil” to “WWG1WGA”

We surveyed over a thousand Californians about these topics to find out if civil society organizations and legislators are missing the mark when it comes to AI legislation. Check out our report and see if the results surprise you: techequity.us/2025/08/19/h...

Social media companies are facing their biggest legal reckoning yet. Thousands of families and schools are joining forces in California, accusing platforms of fueling a youth mental health crisis – by design.

“While Big Tech CEOs like Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg may have the tools and information they need to prevent harm, they lack the will and common decency – which is why we need lawmakers to step up now” - @sachalouise.bsky.social

🚨 NEW REPORT: A new investigation by @ttp-updates.bsky.social exposes how Meta funds parent and child safety groups — like the National PTA — to launder its talking points. Parents are worried about Instagram & kids’ mental health. Instead of fixing the problem, Meta built another spin machine 🧵

📬 INBOX ALERT: This week in The Dispatch we cover Meta's shocking chatbot guidelines, the White House rollback of the competition executive order, and the AI browser wars.

For Adam Raine, ChatGPT began as a homework helper before encouraging and aiding in his death by suicide. Big Tech AI companies’ relentless pursuit of engagement and intimacy is driving users to psychosis and even death.

As someone who works daily with parents, students, educators, doctors, and lawmakers advocating for “bell to bell” phone bans, this is unequivocally not true. Like at all. Conspiratorial thinking like the below is doing the work of the tech industry

Apple: We totally care about your privacy. We’re the privacy guys. Also Apple: We will partner with the king of surveillance capitalism.

1/In the coming days, a federal court will decide how Google gets punished for breaking the law. Here’s how we got here 🧵

Huge thanks to First Partner Jen Siebel Newsom, Assms RBK & Lowenthal, Julianna Arnold, & Jim Steyer for a terrific panel on kids online safety & the amazing work these champions are doing to hold Big Tech accountable - composted by Common Sense Media & @techoversight.bsky.social!

🧐 idk chat. is it bad for meta and zuck to creep on minors?

👀 COMING SOON: Congressional investigation and oversight on Meta's creeper chatbots.

Grok’s “Spicy” mode creates nude deepfakes when tested and takes one click to bypass the “age check.” It's even creating nudes of Taylor Swift. We're urging the FTC to investigate xAI for reckless and illegal products that help create revenge porn.

According to Meta, “it is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” and "it's acceptable to describe a child in terms that evidence their attractiveness.”

🚨NEW REPORT: Google found a way to make millions in lobbying disappear from public view — without actually lobbying less. A new report by ‪@ttp-updates.bsky.social‬ says it’s a legal loophole that hides how much Google is investing in undermining popular tech accountability measures.

We are proud to join 11 other advocacy groups urging the FTC to investigate Meta’s $14.3B “investment” in Scale AI – a de facto acquisition structured to juke the stats and evade antitrust scrutiny. Do we really want Mark Zuckerberg and Meta having more control over our information ecosystem?

ChatGPT giving teens harmful advice isn’t a glitch — it’s what happens when safety is an afterthought. Pass #KOSA.