1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for Sept 20-26. Let’s dive in 👇

1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for Sept 13-19. Let’s dive in 👇

1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for Sept 6-12. Let’s dive in 👇

Our friends at @projectliberty.io point to new business models emerging in response to AI — like Cloudflare letting publishers charge AI crawlers — and they explain how this could transform the way we live online. email.projectliberty.io/who-pays-for...

1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend – here’s our Week in Review for August 30-Sept 5. Let’s dive in 👇

“Erik, you’re not crazy.” A murder-suicide shows how ChatGPT fueled a dangerous man’s paranoia.

1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for August 23-29. Let’s dive in 👇

1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for August 16-22. This week’s focus: the rise of AI chatbots and personas, and the threats they pose to us, our children, and our civic society. Let’s dive in 👇

Sez Us & @projectliberty.io announce that Sez Us is the latest application to launch on the @frequency.xyz blockchain with single sign-on. www.counton2.com/business/pre...

Last week, Project Liberty hosted the State Leadership Summit on Digital Choice & The Future of Social Media at the MIT Media Lab. We were joined by a bipartisan group of state lawmakers across 20 states taking action on America’s crisis of digital choice. events.projectliberty.io/state-leader...

1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for August 9-15…with a special celebratory post for our recent State Leadership Summit in Boston. Let’s dive in 👇

Almost everyone agrees that controlling your own online data is important. Yet generational differences in attitudes about data collection and personalized ads complicate global efforts to legislate on data privacy. Read more in Tech Policy Press: www.techpolicy.press/as-privacy-p...

Yesterday's Project Liberty newsletter explored the vibe coding revolution's effects on innovation, privacy, efficiency, and human agency. Scroll down for more articles spanning data leaks, AI safety, social trust, tech whistleblowers, and more. email.projectliberty.io/welcome-to-t...

1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for Aug 2-8. Let’s dive in 👇

1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for July 26-Aug 1. Let’s dive in 👇

1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for July 18-25. Let’s dive in 👇

1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for July 11-18. Let’s dive in 👇

Last week, the Project Liberty Institute, along with our partners at the Global Solutions Initiative, attended the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 and the AI for Good Summit, both organized by the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/5n89vk89

1/9 Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for July 3-10. Let’s dive in 👇

In this video about the Digital Choice Act, @tomicah.bsky.social discusses Utah’s history of developing critical systems that affect the rest of the country. At this moment, when we need to upgrade the digital infrastructure that powers the internet, Utah is well-positioned to do so.

📢 5Rights Marie-Eve Nadeau is taking part in a webinar on policy & legislative trends in child online safety. 🗓️ Wed 16th July | 14:00 - 15:30 CET Hosted by SafeOnline Fund @UNICEF @WHO ➡️ Full agenda + register: https://loom.ly/mjLujbI #ChildRights

“Platform design is a silent pilot steering human behavior.” Friend of New_ Public @lisa-schirch.bsky.social warns profit-driven social media design is leading us into an era of "techno-autocracy." But in the right hands, platform design can foster democratic engagement and civic participation.

📢 New blog post: Protecting Kids from Abuse II members Abhi Chaudhuri, Dominique Wimmer, Jenna Dietz, ‪mattmotyl.bsky.social‬, & David Jay explore how Trust & Safety teams address online child abuse. We’re proud to spotlight the people doing the hard work to keep kids safe online. 👉

Project Liberty Institute is proud to launch a new report: "How Can Data Cooperatives Help Build a Fair Data Economy? Laying the Groundwork for a Scalable Alternative to the Centralized Digital Economy," in collaboration with the @thedrc.bsky.social ⬇️https://tinyurl.com/mzpn3sjv

In this week’s newsletter, we explore how a moratorium on state AI laws went from likely to dead in the span of a few days, the arguments for and against limiting state-level AI regulation, and what the moratorium’s defeat says about the future of tech policy. email.projectliberty.io/the-99-1-vot...

We’re back with a new series of open source challenges! Bellingcat researcher @oldpete45.bsky.social created five exercises that allow you to uncover some dark secrets buried in time. Welcome to a world of forgotten files, and (confusing) historic maps! ➡️ challenge.bellingcat.com

TikTok is banning the harmful hashtag "SkinnyTok". But will this decision really protect users or is it just cosmetic? Read our blog to learn our take on TikTok's move ⤵️ buff.ly/7zcd1pA

1/8 Happy Thursday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for June 28-July 3, one day early so everyone can enjoy the long Fourth of July weekend. 🇺🇸 🎇 Let’s dive in 👇

On July 1–2, Project Liberty Institute participated in the Global Digital Collaboration Conference in Geneva, serving as an official co-organizer alongside the World Bank, ITU, European Commission, OECD, ISO, W3C, and other leading institutions. Read the recap below ⬇️

After Iran's "near-total internet blackout" following Israeli strikes, this week’s Project Liberty newsletter explores how geopolitical conflicts and domestic unrest are disrupting the digital world. email.projectliberty.io/the-internet...

Utah Representative @dougfiefia.bsky.social discusses how they heard from legislators concerned about the Digital Choice Act's potential impact on smaller tech start-ups. Several small tech companies testified that the bill would foster competition and innovation.

Our Co-Director @deeptidoshi.bsky.social draws on her parents' journey to the U.S. to argue that American ideals only become real through local community action. To Deepti, our neighborhoods, schools, and digital spaces are where we actually practice freedom together — not just defend it from afar.

👏 Project Liberty Institute was proud to participate in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Norway. We hosted a series of dynamic workshops, community events, and high-level discussions advancing digital infrastructure and data agency. www.projectliberty.io/news/project... @wesbiggs.bsky.social

AI agents are not 'agentic' in the way we mean. Stay tuned for more on this topic from us..😎

1/8 Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for June 20-27. Let’s dive in 👇

Do we live in an unprecedented crisis of attention? There have been previous moral panics about attention in human history. Is this time different? In this week's newsletter, we zoom out and take a historical perspective to understand today’s attention crisis. email.projectliberty.io/how-to-flour...

Join us for the launch of "How Can Data Cooperatives Help Build a Fair Data Economy? – Laying the Groundwork for a Scalable Alternative to the Centralized Digital Economy," the final report developed in collaboration with the @thedrc.bsky.social. RSVP here: plpopup0007.splashthat.com

We’re kicking off public feedback on CC signals, a new framework meant to help sustain the commons in the age of AI! Designed to build reciprocity, CC signals let data stewards express how content may be used and how AI systems should give back. Learn more: buff.ly/r4KBnRx #CCsignals

In this video about the Utah Digital Choice Act, Project Liberty Founder Frank McCourt notes that the coming AI agents that will “make your life better” can’t enhance our lives until we fix the broken system and restore power to the people instead of Big Tech. 📹Watch the series: tinyurl.com/4zvyj29w

The editors of The Onion will be answering your questions on Reddit today beginning at 1 p.m. ET to celebrate this week’s release of our special issue sent to all 535 members of Congress.

1/6 Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for June 13-20. The third TikTok ban-or-sale delay was the big news this week – but here are more headlines that caught our eye. Let’s dive in 👇

happening on Friday! Unfortunately registration is full, but I hope to see you there if you're on the list!

📣 Project Liberty Institute will join the @intgovforum.bsky.social (IGF) #IGF2025 in Oslo next week, with a series of events under the common theme of “Building Digital Governance Together." 🔗 Follow the discussions online or in person on June 25 at 10:30 CEST intgovforum.org/en/content/i...

This week's newsletter explores how people are turning away from Big Tech toward smaller, more intimate online spaces. Group chats, private servers, and close-friend circles are quietly reclaiming what social media once promised. 👉https://email.projectliberty.io/the-new-social-media-group-chats

Today, we are proud to spotlight a longtime Alliance member, @alltechishuman.bsky.social, and its president and founder, David Ryan Polgar. Learn more about the Project Liberty Alliance: projectliberty.io/alliance/ and All Tech Is Human alltechishuman.org

🤦‍♀️Technology doesn't fall from the sky. 👏We couldn't agree more with @karenhao.bsky.social, discussing her new book, EMPIRE OF AI. 📺FULL INTERVIEW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiLu...

What do multiplayer video games have that social media lacks? According to Sijal Nasralla, there’s often depth, relationality, and community that “exceed far beyond the shallowness of a like, comment, or follow.”

#AI is not just a tool, but a force that fuels creativity for cultural influencers Refik Anadol, Nik Kleverov, Pippa Lambert, Fred Grinstein, Aaron Huey, & AyşeDeniz Gökçin. Tune in for our final conversations on faith and AI & discussion with Joseph Gordon-Levitt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX74...

One more post about the Digital Choice Act from @harvardash.bsky.social on how the legislation has the potential to reshape social media.