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📬 This week in The Dispatch we cover Big Tech on the campaign trail, updates in the Google ad-tech remedy trial, and Mark Zuckerberg's AI smart glasses that couldn't answer a simple question.

@raskin.house.gov came out BIG in support of federalism and supporting the states' role as "laboratories of democracies." An AI moratorium trades away our protections for absolutely nothing in return. Thank you, RM Raskin for standing up for civil rights, labor rights, and online safety.

@hankjohnson.house.gov makes it crystal clear, an AI moratorium that the House GOP is pushing is a "race to the bottom."

The House GOP Judiciary Committee witness is dead wrong about "one state" setting AI standards. A blanket AI moratorium is a blank check for Big Tech that undermines laws in ALL 50 STATES. Learn more about which laws would be impacted. Read @publiccitizen.bsky.socialanalysis here.

An AI moratorium is a disaster for many reasons. It is also a disaster for kids. It's okay to acknowledge that we're in uncharted territory with chatbots. We don't yet know how much of a disaster they will be. Early returns: PRETTY BAD. ChatGPT logs below coaching a minor on how to commit suicide.

Do you think Jim Jordan is a bunch of hot air when it comes to Big Tech?

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?

Death, taxes, and Jim Jordan standing up for sexual predators.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

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.”

Sir, a second whistleblower story has hit

The speed with which “Abundance” has gone from *new idea* to *empty signifier* has got to be some kind of record.

The ideological inconsistencies in the Google remedy are mind-boggling and flat out don't make sense. The Department of Justice should appeal.

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

they’re so close

This needs to be discussed more. Even if AI bots are not formally designed to have personalities they kind of do. It would be incredibly easy for these programmatic traits to confuse some people and lull them into thinking what they're engaging with has some level of sentience.

Read the full op-ed here:

“Meta, Apple, Google, OpenAI, and their ilk will never regulate themselves, so we urgently need to do it before more children die and more families are destroyed. In Adam Raine’s memory, we have an opportunity to prevent future tragedies — if lawmakers will listen.”

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...

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

Meta bankrolls parent and child-safety organizations that are supposed to advocate for kids — but instead promote Meta’s own initiatives. When the PTA or a “safety group” backs Meta’s features, it creates the illusion of broad, expert endorsement. Parents see credibility — not corporate PR.

🚨 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.

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.

Sing it from the mountain top

I actually agree that Democrats should refrain from using most of these. And they already do! When was the last time a Senator said 'heteronormative'? The bigger problem is that orgs like Third Way are reinforcing this false, right-wing narrative. Dems can't stop doing something they're not doing!

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

Nothing says ‘we’re not a monopoly’ like threatening the fall of civilization if you get broken up.

4/Read the full report from @knightgtown.bsky.social here:

1/Google has been pushing the lie for years that a breakup would be literally impossible. Research from @knightgtown.bsky.social pokes holes in Google’s false narratives. A deeper look 🧵

📬 INBOX ALERT: This week in The Dispatch, we're covering Trump's love letter to Big Tech AI (AKA AI "Action" Plan) and the latest jaw-dropping stats from Big Tech's lobbying spree, courtesy of research from @issueonereform.bsky.social.

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@cantwell.senate.gov helped lead the push to kill the AI moratorium — blocking Big Tech’s attempt to strip states of the power to protect kids. It worked when Senators from both sides of the aisle listened to parents, state AGs, and advocates like the SMVLC. www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/arti...

1/Google’s AI Overviews are doing exactly what publishers feared. @pewresearch.org found that when people see one, they almost never click through – just 1% do. @404media.co dug into what that actually looks like in practice. It’s bad. www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...

what a shame. couldn't be happening to a nicer club.

If I were an Arsenal fan, I too would be upset that my team just signed a really good young player at the most premium position in the sport for less money than two significantly worse players in similar positions were signed for yesterday.

Big Tech's AI moratorium was defeated by 99-1. The tech lobby presented Congress with a false choice: safety or global competitiveness, and the Senate did not take the bait. Our full statement: techoversight.org/2025/07/01/a...

After critics called the bill a “get-out-jail-free-card” for Big Tech that could make it nearly impossible to rein in social media platforms, Senator Marsha Blackburn killed her own compromise. (from @knibbs.bsky.social) www.wired.com/story/ai-mor...

This is the best data point since KOSA for what happens when you actually allow votes in anything tech. AICOA wouldn’t have passed because no clear whip vote? Give me a break.

"As a whole, the benefits of AI seem esoteric and underwhelming while the harms feel transformative and immediate." (h/t @stagewrite.bsky.social) www.wired.com/story/genera...

This isn’t compromise. It’s AI amensty. If Republicans were truly serious about holding Google, Meta, OpenAI, and other tech giants accountable, they wouldn’t be trying to grant yet another giveaway to Big Tech.

Dems hate the AI moratorium for a lot of very good reasons. What’s surprising is that conservatives are also calling out the Big Tech handout and fighting back. More below:

NEW: Senator today revealed that Reddit, which Sam Altman owns 7.5% of and has partners with OpenAI, is planning to use an iris-scanning software called WorldID – another Altman-owned company. Why does it seem like Altman is always involved in self-dealing?

*sirens going off*

The ‘OpenAI Files’ will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company works www.theverge.com/openai/68878...

Sam Altman would really hate if you read The OpenAI Files.

The OpenAI Files: Our new report with @themidasproject.bsky.social documents how OpenAI has evolved from an idealistic nonprofit to a Big Tech giant abandoning its public-interest mission, gutting safeguards, and granting power to board members with clear conflicts of interest. www.openaifiles.org