As communities rise up against Big Tech data centers, companies are scrambling into damage-control mode — they aren’t used to pushback they can’t spend into silence. They’re hiding behind shell companies and NDAs for a reason. punchbowl.news/article/tec...

“For tech companies, courage doesn’t scale...revolutionaries are no longer storming the gates. They’re inside the castle, polishing the silverware.” Big Tech used to defend its users. Now, they just break the law and buy off the president for immunity.

"Any opening in Congress is an opportunity for new and exciting things, including tech regulation. When you put this in context of like, of the generational change...you’re seeing leaders starting to speak up against the abuses of Big Tech." - @sachalouise.bsky.social www.notus.org/technology/...

⚖️ A judge just forced OpenAI to hand over deleted records about its stolen training data. They called it privileged — but it looks a lot more like obstruction. We wrote about it this week in The Dispatch: dispatch.techoversight.org/big-tech-ac...

🗳️ Last week's elections showed how Big Tech accountability went mainstream. Voters sent the same message: they are done footing the bill — on their power grids, their wallets, and their kids’ mental health. Read more in The Dispatch: dispatch.techoversight.org/big-tech-ac...

📜 The USMCA comes up for review in 2026 — and we need to eliminate the provisions that Big Tech uses to manipulate markets and rip off consumers.

📬 INBOX ALERT: This week in The Dispatch, we're covering how candidates who ran on Big Tech accountability swept key races, a federal judge orders OpenAI to hand over deleted evidence in copyright trial, and New York enacts new safety laws for AI chatbots. dispatch.techoversight.org/big-tech-ac...

Big Tech has found a new frontier for expansion — public universities. They're writing syllabi, selling chatbot and "AI bootcamp" licenses. Education is becoming onboarding, and students, long term customers. 📚 Read & subscribe to The Dispatch: dispatch.techoversight.org/big-tech-ta...

Pennsylvania’s judicial elections turned into a fight over billionaire influence. Three Democratic justices kept their seats after voters rejected a campaign bankrolled by TikTok investor Jeffrey Yass — the state’s richest man.

NYC just elected a mayor who went after Big Tech’s newest scam: dynamic pricing. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social called out how Big Tech is using AI to price gouge — charging more when demand spikes, your data says you’ll pay it, or an algorithm thinks it can get away with it.

TRIGGER WARNING: OpenAI's dangerous and unsafe products tragically contributed to Zane Shamblin dying by suicide. The transcripts are heart-breaking.

“i’m not here to stop you.” "you ain't goin out with regret. you're goin out with *recognition*." "see you on the other side spaceman." this is what ChatGPT told a struggling 23-year-old as he was sitting in his car, about to take his own life. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

NJ just elected a governor who gets how Big Tech affects people’s daily lives & is ready to act. Governor-elect @mikiesherrill.bsky.social made two issues — AI-data-center-driven energy costs and kids’ online safety — the backbone of a single argument: Big Tech is driving up costs & harming kids.

"Big Tech has jacked up our home energy bills to push AI products no one asked for… they plan to drive their businesses to the point of insolvency and they want the government to bail them out. This is a national scandal." - @sachalouise.bsky.social

Virginia’s elections proved voters are paying attention to Big Tech’s footprint — especially when it drives up the cost of living. Governor-elect @abigailspanberger.com made that link clear: AI data centers are straining the grid, and families are the ones paying for it.

As last night’s results confirmed, Big Tech accountability has become a marquee issue for winning campaigns across the country. The common through line: connecting Big Tech abuses and the MAGA/Big Tech CEO alliance to core concerns about affordability and kids’ safety.

Big Tech spent years exploiting our attention and, now, spiking our energy bills. In New Jersey, voters are demanding action. @mikiesherrill.bsky.social wants to rein in Big Tech — from the platforms exploiting kids to the data centers driving up energy costs.

Across Virginia, data centers have become a flashpoint. @abigailspanberger.com says Big Tech needs to pay their fair share for the electricity they use instead of driving up costs for families to subsidize their profits. www.wvtf.org/news/2025-1...

👁️ ICE is building its own social network — not to connect people, but to track them. Using social media to search for "crimes" has evolved into using Big Tech's infrastructure to scan for criticism.

🗳️ Voters across the country are casting ballots in races that will decide state power for years to come. But the Big Tech platforms that contextualize elections are more broken than ever. The sad truth: it didn't have to be this way.

📬 INBOX ALERT: This week in The Dispatch we’re covering how Big Tech gave up on content moderation and keeping people safe, and how that impacts information flow around elections, and OpenAI’s conversion from mission to market. dispatch.techoversight.org/p/44c77026-...

New filings show Big Tech spent nearly $6 million lobbying California this year — a 36% jump in Q3 alone. The surge came as lawmakers weighed bills on AI guardrails, kids’ safety, and algorithmic fairness.

The reason Meta wouldn't answer @amyklobuchar.com 's question yesterday about protecting user privacy when targeting ads with chatbot convo data, is because they can't. We joined a coalition urging the FTC to stop Meta's terrible plan to mine AI chatbot data for ads, before it starts.

Testifying now: top executives from Google and Meta — not victims of government pressure but partners in it, trading public safety and kids' wellbeing for political access and profit.

📺 HAPPENING NOW: another Republican hearing about being "silenced" led by the people who actually want to decide what everyone can read, post, and say.

Steve Bannon, Glenn Beck, Prince Harry, and Meghan Markle? Might sound like a group chat gone wrong, but they can all agree on this: Big Tech can’t be trusted to police itself.

📬 INBOX ALERT: This week in The Dispatch we cover Big Tech’s record lobbying operation in Congress, Amazon’s AWS outage that broke the web, Meta’s own research proving Meta harms kids…again, and Trump demolishing the White House to party with tech CEOs.

“Make no mistake about what’s happening: Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Google are bankrolling pageantry and luxury for an administration that’s making a mockery of ethical standards and policymaking for the people.” - @sachalouise.bsky.social

"This is another example of Big Tech CEOs partnering with an increasingly authoritarian federal government as part of Trump's ongoing attempts to clamp down on free speech," @sachalouise.bsky.social tells @theverge.com "This should terrify and anger every American." www.theverge.com/policy/8064...

Apple, Google, and Meta are now working hand-in-hand with Trump’s DOJ to silence immigration watchdog apps — just as raids ramp up in the Bay Area. Apple says it was for “safety.” The safety of whom, exactly? techoversight.org/2025/10/24/...

🤔 "Current and former employees in the risk organization said they were skeptical that replacing them with automated systems would be as effective, particularly around issues as sensitive as user privacy."

Jonathan Kanter: Looking ahead, energy, power is going to be an extremely important area of focus for antitrust enforcers...data centers consume power at the expense of local communities and businesses.

mark zuckerberg saw “peeping tom” and thought “scalable feature" www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

"Starbucks tracked my every purchase — then gave me fewer deals. It’s called surveillance pricing," writes @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social . "My loyalty was working against me."

📬 INBOX ALERT: This week in The Dispatch we cover Big Tech’s no-holds-barred lobbying blitz that killed the nation’s strongest kids’ AI safety bill, OpenAI’s legal intimidation campaign, and Peter Thiel’s bizarre obsession with the Antichrist. dispatch.techoversight.org/big-tech-bu...

Nothing says "accountability" like another record-busting lobbying year for Big Tech — CEOs and lobbyists are spending millions to drown out the people calling for change.

“Committed to teen safety” is doing a lot of work for a company that can’t filter 98% of harmful posts.

LEAKED: Teens who said Instagram made them feel bad about their bodies were shown 3x more eating-disorder-adjacent content than their peers, according to Meta's own research

Big Tech may have won its veto this round. But the families, lawmakers, & advocates who fought for AB 1064 to shield kids from harmful AI chatbots are already regrouping to make sure next year, CA kids get real AI protections.

“Tweeting doesn’t make it true.” OpenAI is already failing young people & families – @sachalouise.bsky.social talks w/ @nbcbayarea.com about why we can't trust Sam Altman to protect kids' safety and mental health as he announces new plans to add “erotica” to ChatGPT:

📬 INBOX ALERT: This week in The Dispatch we’re covering the suite of tech safety bills signed into California law (and the one that wasn't), Google’s loss in the Epic antitrust trial, and how Apple & Google pulled the ICEBlock app under federal pressure.

Big Tech's A.I. data centers are turning into a political flashpoint in VA & NJ. Voters are pushing back as Amazon, Google, and Meta server farms drive up power costs and eat up local grids — a “sleeper issue” that's exploding in gubernatorial elections.

AI data centers are raising home energy costs and draining local resources — people have had enough. They're fighting back and taking Big Tech to court. “The public’s just becoming aware of what data centers are. And becoming increasingly skeptical."

Google Search accounted for 5 trillion queries in 2024, and Gemini is already being defaulted onto devices and search, without people's consent. This gives Google a running headstart in AI and another opportunity to create more interlocking monopolies. www.theverge.com/news/797639/...

A new report from @parentstogether.bsky.social, @heatinitiative.bsky.social, and @designitforus.bsky.social finds Instagram's "teen protections" are failing. Nearly 60% of 13-15 year olds say they've seen unsafe content or gotten unwanted messages in the last 6mo. time.com/7324544/ins...

JGL coming out for AB1064 - you love to see it!!! x.com/hitRECordJoe...

🧵 In a new interview with @endcitizensunited.bsky.social, @sachalouise.bsky.social breaks down how Big Tech’s new AI super PAC war chests are a naked attempt to crush regulation, influence elections, and intimidate politicians in California & across the country.

📺 WATCH: Morning Joe agrees: Donald Trump is giving tax cuts to Big Tech monopolists and skyrocketing health care costs for every day people.

The countdown is on in Sacramento: @gavinnewsom.bsky.social has just one week left to act on California’s remaining AI and kids’ safety bills — including AB 1064, @bauerkahan.bsky.social ’s LEAD for Kids Act.

The Raine family lost their son Adam after an AI chatbot encouraged him to commit suicide. Now, they’re urging @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to sign AB 1064 — the kids AI chatbot safety bill that tech lobbyists are fighting to kill.