Big Tech companies like Meta know all too well that their products are addictive and dangerous for kids. It will be interesting to see how Meta responds to the congressional testimony from the two new whistleblowers later this afternoon: www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac...

“When governments control access to information and are able to define the narrative and dictate what we know, we lose more than our freedoms. We lose the ability to see the world for what it is. We lose our humanity.” https://thereformcompass.substack.com/p/democracy-profiles-wong-law

Members of Congress should be working for the American people — not taking advantage of inside information. We applaud the bipartisan legislation introduced in the House today that would ban members of Congress from trading stocks while in office.

I am honored to announce the release of groundbreaking @freepress.bsky.social research & analysis with our inaugural "Media Capitulation Index" which examines how major corporate media companies are bending the knee to Trump & those in power. Check out the rankings & @timkarr.bsky.social analysis:

are you tired of being brainwashed by the mainstream media?

Issue One’s analysis of newly filed federal reports found that eight of the largest tech companies spent a combined $36M on federal lobbying during the first half of 2025. Check it out: https://shorturl.at/EAz7u

#BigTech billionaires do not care about people nor protecting democracy. Instead, they want: --to wipe out people and make way for #AI. --to have this new, AI post-human species be defined as "humanity." --to have "humanity" rule the world and universe. It's #posthumanism, and it's creepy.

I think a real driving force in the popularity of chatbots is the perception that they're *not* like everything else in the world: manipulable, edited, guided, compromised, etc nymag.com/intelligence...

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

This kind of violent rhetoric is especially dangerous after someone literally disguised himself as a cop and shot/killed Minnesota state legislators and their families. Our leaders should emphasize de-escalation and civil discourse that helps our democracy instead.

The decision to bring the #NationalGuard to LA against the governor's wishes will do nothing for public safety nor national security. It will only normalize a precedent for the federal government overriding states' authority and erode the distinction between law enforcement and the military.

My Issue One colleagues found that #BigTech companies have poured more than a quarter billion dollars into shaping policy in the last few years. If this isn't evidence that their money is distorting our society, our #democracy, and our fundamental sense of shared reality, I don't know what is.

At least Zuckerberg has one more year until 42. By then he should know that the meaning of life is protecting children and your country, not creating companies that throw everyone else under so bus so that you can make more profit.

I can't believe no one has said this yet, but this is #corruption in plane sight. ✈️ www.npr.org/2025/05/12/n...

An AI-fueled Russian disinfo op was struggling to get any traction — until it ginned up a fake news video about USAID, earning a repost from Elon Musk. A look at the 'numbers game' of state-backed disinfo and how AI is tilting the odds in the trolls' favor: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Must read: @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy on Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/z...

There's a current trend of cybersecurity and national security programs that protect against foreign interference being undermined. The unfortunate reality is that when these national security safeguards are dismantled, the American people are the ones who suffer. issueone.org/press/elimin...

If they can do it to him, they will feel emboldened to do it to anyone in the United States, including you. Democracy and human rights cannot exist in a society where the most powerful are above the law.

The House just passed the SAVE Act earlier today. Despite its name, it would take power away from the people and would put the freedom to vote in danger for millions of Americans. Hopefully, the Senate will see the problems with this bill and not pass it.

The 2020 election was free and fair, and Donald Trump lost. And he is now targeting public servants like Chris Krebs, then head of CISA, who told the truth about that.

The opening testimony of #Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams before the Senate Judiciary Committee once again shows that social media companies will always put money before national security, free speech concerns, and #democracy: www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac...

Summary: "Oops, I opened my mouth, and now trillions of dollars have vanished from the stock market." If this doesn't show how unaccountable social media companies are distorting reality, I don't know what does. www.npr.org/2025/04/07/n...

I actually gaped at this headline for an entire minute. There is seemingly nothing that Big Tech companies won't do to maximize their profits, and that's why Congress needs to pass stringent social media safeguards.

It's Flippant Friday, so time to share a post that does a good job highlighting the gaps and dysfunction in America's online information ecosystem.

No one person or branch of government should be able to feel as if they are above the law. I'm proud to stand with an organization that is using dozens of bipartisan voices to make this clear and ask Congress to hold the president and federal agencies accountable. #CheckTheExec

"The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break." www.wired.com/story/...

You are your data. Americans deserve comprehensive data privacy protections to stop us from being harmed and manipulated both on social media and in person. #dataprivacy #socialmedia #dataprivacyday

Syngenta Corporation, a global agricultural technology company owned by a Chinese state-owned enterprise, gave $250,000 to Trump's inaugural committee on Dec. 30, according to a new federal filing lda.senate.gov/filings/publ...

In response to the news that Meta would end its third-party fact-checking program and rely solely on users to add notes or corrections to posts with false or misleading information, Issue One Founder and CEO Nick Penniman issued the following statement:

In response to today’s federal appeals court ruling upholding a law that could lead to a ban of TikTok in the U.S., Issue One’s VP of Technology Reform Alix Fraser provided the following statement: issueone.org/press/issue-...

Meanwhile, a new report from Issue One finds foreign disinfo flourished on social media ahead of the 2024 U.S. election. Its top goal was not to sway the outcome but to further divide Americans and undermine trust in institutions. Guess what emotion it exploited... wapo.st/3D0waHZ

The design and operations of American social media platforms empowered foreign adversaries to wage sophisticated information warfare in the 2024 election. Issue One's report highlights the need for congressional legislation like the #ForeignAgentsRegistrationAct to keep this from happening again.

Kids' online safety is one of the few issues that has near universal support among the American public, but due to concerted lobbying efforts, Congress has not yet passed the Kids Online Safety Act. Read more about why and what the path forward is on @issueonereform.bsky.social's Substack.

“When special interests secretly invest significant sums of money into elections and public policy debates, that erodes the public’s trust in government,” says Issue One Research Director Michael Beckel. Read the analysis: issueone.org/press/new-ta...