$653 million in political donations. $200,000 a day in lobbying. 307 lobbyists — more than 1 for every 2 members of Congress. You don't spend like this when the public is on your side. You spend like this when you need to buy the referees. Read this week's Dispatch for more.

It’s objectively drug store ed sheeran — with somehow even worse lyrics.

HAPPENING NOW: in their largest gathering ever, survivor parents & advocates are taking the #BigTechonTrial docs to the lawmakers who’ve refused to listen. It’s time to choose: are you with families or Big Tech?

We're proud to be joined by Humans First, @commoncause.org, @foeus.bsky.social, Fight Corporate Monopolies, Parents Rise, and more. Link to our letter: techoversight.org/2026/04/15/c...

LTF is backed by Trump's loudest supporters. They directly profit from unsafe AI products and power ICE's surveillance and terrorization of our communities. We're asking @repsuhas.bsky.social, @gomez.house.gov, @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social, @liccardo.house.gov, and Rep. Gottheimer to disavow LTF.

If unchecked, Big Tech's agenda will lead to mass unemployment, unsafe AI products, and taxpayer-funded subsidies and gifts for the richest companies in the world. Don't believe us? Take their word for it. It's playing out right now.

NEW: Big Tech's AI money is flooding campaigns across the country. OpenAI, Palantir, and a16z are spending hundreds of millions to oppose candidates who support AI safety, chatbot protections, and data privacy. We're calling on Dems to disavow Big Tech's Trump-connected backers.

In the end, though, what made the verdict remarkable was the relative ordinariness of Kaley’s story..The jury award was a spur to understand a life recognizably shaped by social-media algorithms, in ways that were perhaps near-impossible to resist, as a serious injury to an entire generation.

as we await the jury's decision now, we put together the takeaways from the last few weeks of the social media addiction trials. take a look 👀 ⤵️

NEW: Ex-Meta engineer Arturo Bejar's testimony in the landmark L.A. trial sheds new light on WHY execs like Zuckerberg knew everything but refused to act. Oh, and this whistleblower brought receipts 🧾🧾🧾

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says, “Kids under 13 aren’t allowed on our services.” That's a lie. 2015: Internal review found 4 million kids on Instagram. 2017: Meta employees, we're "going after <13 year olds” – Zuckerberg had been talking about this “for a while.”

👀 Oh. The AI super PAC people are also the Jeffrey Epstein people.

SHOT: Bad take from OpenAI’s Chris Lehane about AI POPuLiSM CHASER: Sent from Davos

AI super PACs run by OpenAI / Meta / big tech think they can run the crypto playbook from 2018 -- but voters actually know what Big Tech and AI is (and they don't like it). it won't work

There’s only one reason why Snapchat would settle on the eve of trial, and that is because what was about to become public is so damning that they were hoping the evidence they have denied for years will never see the light of day.

🗒️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..."

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

@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."

something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore

This is just sad.

I was an early buyer on this lib conspiracy theory but this isn't the top, no way, I'm hodling

🪨 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...

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

Read the full letter here: techoversight.org/wp-content/u...

Read @haydenfield.bsky.social's piece here: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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."

AI companies: We can't have 50 state AI laws. There has to be just one rulebook for AI EU: Here you go AI companies: not like that

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.

Making Nestor proud.

In a surprise to absolutely no one, Trump’s corrupt AI czar is self-dealing to enrich his companies and friends — while Americans lose protections and their jobs. 👀 Seems ripe for Congressional oversight and hearings.

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

North London is still red.

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.

btw lying to congress is a federal crime www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

Zuckerberg fundraised off of this for years btw: AI was supposed to make profit margins wider bc it automated content moderation. It did do this — just too well it would seem.

guess we're doing this again today. meta is an evil company

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

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!

this is like when the FBI holds a fake wedding so it can arrest all the bad guys in one giant sting

When a $100M AI super PAC backed by Big Tech CEOs comes after you, it’s because you’re doing the right thing. @alexbores.nyc isn't backing down — which is exactly why Big Tech's attacks against him are a badge of honor.

Dr. Torous:  So far, there is no well designed, peer reviewed, replicated research showing that any AI chatbot making mental health claims is effective for meaningfully improving clinical outcomes. None.

📺 E&C Chatbot Hearing Underway: Rep. YvetteClarke says “there’s far too much at stake to let Big Tech fly down this path at full speed with no guardrails”

an incredible takedown of tech bros & their AI derangement syndrome

Kind of funny how Jeff Bezos and Amazon acquire creative control of the James Bond franchise and then can't get past the underlying premise of every Bond era. Like, do y'all think it's been the same Bond, narratively speaking, for 50+ years???????

Honestly, "but Bond died in the last movie" is just...every new actor has been a new Bond, a fresh start. If you want to do the obsessive continuity thing, you do that within that actor's run. I'd have thought anyone immersed in 007 movies would realize this

BIG TECH: "Is it a land grab? Yeah. Could their power bills go up and there be rolling blackouts? Yes. But you know what? Mass surveillance isn't free." 10/10. No notes. 🤌

“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...

"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

Really eye-popping: Andy Stone refuses to walk back that roughly 10% of Meta's global revenue comes from fraudulent scam ads. The cost of destroying trust and safety programs should be a fund that pays out dollar-for-dollar amounts to scam victims.