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Project Liberty builds solutions that help people take back control of their lives in the digital age by reclaiming a voice, choice, and stake in a better internet. Find out more at https://projectliberty.io.

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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · Apr 2

1/10 Hello! We wanted to introduce ourselves. We are Project Liberty. Project Liberty is building an ecosystem to empower people to take back control of their digital lives by reclaiming a voice, choice, and stake in a better internet.

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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 2h

14/ Thanks for reading and have a wonderful weekend! 🗽

Read this week’s Project Liberty newsletter on Friend, the new wearable AI device that’s always listening: tinyurl.com/4fct5awv

Join the fight to build a better Internet: projectliberty.io

Wearable AI that’s always listening

Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 2h

13/ As kids spend more and more time interacting with AI chatbots, US parents are increasingly concerned about their screen time – which is already dominated by TV, tablets, and smartphones. 🦜

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Young Kids' Screen Time Now Includes AI Chatbots, Parents Say

In a broad look at how children ages 5 to 12 are interacting with technology, 42% of parents said they could be doing better.

Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 2h

12/ Google became the first major online platform to be designated with “strategic market status” in the UK, facing tough new scrutiny over its dominance of online search and ads under new UK antitrust rules. 🇬🇧

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11/ New research shows that nearly 60% of 13-15 year olds continue to see unsafe content and experience unwanted adult contact, months after Meta rolled out Teen Accounts and new safety features. 🦺

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Young Teens Still Encountering Unsafe Content, Adult Contact on Instagram, Study Shows

A study of teens using Instagram finds nearly 60 percent encountered unsafe content and unwanted contact in the past six months.

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10/ Facebook’s recent pivot to a more Reels-centric UI, as well as Instagram’s testing of Reels-first UI in India and South Korea, is drawing clear comparisons with another dominant scroll-centric social app: TikTok. 📱

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Facebook is turning into TikTok

Meta is making some changes to recommend more timely videos on the platform.

Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 2h

9/ Fediverse portability tool Bounce launched its latest beta version, allowing users to transfer or merge their Mastodon social graph into their Bluesky account profiles while keeping their post history, followers, and preferred settings. 🔁

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Bounce introduces a tool to move your Mastodon account to Bluesky | TechCrunch

The idea is that this account portability prevents users from getting stuck on a service if they come to disagree with its state of development, terms of use, moderation decisions, or anything else.

Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 2h

8/ Decentralized open social network Mastodon will launch “Packs” – curated groups of accounts for new users to follow – for its ~700k monthly active users. The idea is similar to a feature launched last year by Bluesky, another open social platform. 🎁

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Mastodon is taking cues from Bluesky with plans for its own starter 'Packs' | TechCrunch

Mastodon is planning to make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow by launching a new starter packs feature.

Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 2h

7/ AltStore, a third-party app store and one of the first alternative app marketplaces in Europe, raised $6m to connect to the “fediverse” – a network of open social platforms including Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads. 🔗

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Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch

The alternative app marketplace AltStore has raised $6 million and launched a Mastodon server.

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6/ The SEC began probing AppLovin, a mobile adtech firm, over a whistleblower complaint about its data-collection practices and alleged violation of service agreements. 🔍

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5/ Danish PM Mette Frederiksen announced her government’s intention to introduce a ban on social media platforms for children under 15, saying that “mobile phones and social media are stealing our children’s childhood.” 📵

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Denmark aims to ban social media for children under 15, PM says

“We have unleashed a monster,” Mette Frederiksen tells Danish lawmakers.

Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 2h

4/ France is investigating Apple over recording users’ voices through Siri and retaining the data for up to two years, even offering it to “graders,” or subcontractors, for review. Apple says it retains voice recordings to improve Siri’s performance. 👂

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3/ A Stanford study found that when AI models are optimized for competitive success—to boost ad engagement, win votes, or drive social media traffic—they start lying, rewiring themselves to prioritize persuasion and virality over honesty. 🤥

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AI Is Learning to Lie for Social Media Likes - Decrypt

AI now drives nearly all social media feeds, shaping what users see, share, and believe—raising new risks for truth and trust.

Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 2h

2/ Project Liberty founder Frank McCourt took the stage at Norrsken Impact/Week in Barcelona to discuss the need to catalyze impact entrepreneurship for a digital economy that restores human agency for all. 🗣️

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Project Liberty Institute at Norrsken Impact Week: Building Better AI & Data Economy - Project Liberty

On October 1–2, 2025, Project Liberty founder Frank McCourt and leaders from the Project Liberty Institute (PLI) joined Norrsken Impact Week, which gathered over 1,000 entrepreneurs, investors, and ch...

Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 2h

1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for Oct 4-10. Let’s dive in 👇

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12/ Thanks for reading. And from everyone here at Project Liberty – have a wonderful weekend! 🗽

Read this week’s Project Liberty newsletter on trust in the age of AI: tinyurl.com/vhh3wvn7

Join the fight to build a better Internet: projectliberty.io

Who do you trust more: AI or politicians?

Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 7d

11/ The FTC filed a complaint against Sendit, an anonymous Q&A app popular with Gen Z, for unlawfully collecting children’s data, deceiving users about who sent them messages, and tricking them into buying memberships.

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Anonymous question app Sendit deceived children and illegally collected their data, FTC alleges | TechCrunch

On Sendit, teens can send each other anonymous questions via integrations with Instagram or Snapchat.

Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 7d

10/ The DOJ and Google remain locked in a court battle over the future of AdX, Google’s signature ad exchange and the focus of its antitrust trial. 🧑‍⚖️

This week, witness testimonies focused on the impact of AI-powered search on human web traffic.

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US v. Google redux: all the news from the ad tech trial

Will Google have to sell its ad business?

Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 7d

9/ Tech giants are heavily lobbying the EU to weaken its signature tech competition law, the Digital Markets Act.

Apple wants it scrapped entirely; Google wants major changes; both have faced big fines under the DMA in recent years.

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The battle over the EU’s Big Tech rules begins. Here are 5 fights to watch.

The European Union’s digital competition rules, loathed by U.S. President Donald Trump, are being reviewed to see what’s working and what’s not.

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8/ Ex-Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, who pushed for social media warning labels to combat a youth mental health crisis, has joined the board of directors of Common Sense Media, a leading US advocate for kids’ online safety. 🩺

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Biden’s Surgeon General Vivek Murthy joins kids’ online safety group

Common Sense Media CEO Jim Steyer said he envisions the trained physician as a spokesperson for kids’ safety controls on social media and AI.

Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 7d

7/ Indonesia fined TikTok for failing to inform antitrust authorities of its deal with e-commerce giant Tokopedia and removed its license for refusing to share data on anti-government protestors. 🚨

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Indonesia suspends TikTok’s licence over refusal to share protest data

South-east Asian country is video app’s second-biggest market after the US

Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 7d

6/ Instagram is testing a Reels-first UI for users in India and South Korea – seemingly confirming the app’s transition from social media to content consumption. 📱

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Instagram is testing a Reels-first UI in India and South Korea | TechCrunch

Instagram is testing a new Reels-first UI in India and South Korea to give short videos more prominence in the app.

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5/ Aaron Sorkin will write and direct ‘The Social Reckoning,’ a sequel to 2010’s ‘The Social Network,’ which will star Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg and Mikey Madison as Frances Haugen, the leaker behind The Facebook Files of 2021. 🎬

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'The Social Network' sequel will focus on Haugen leaks, with Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg | TechCrunch

Fifteen years after "The Social Network," director Aaron Sorkin is making a sequel film about Facebook called "The Social Reckoning."

Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 7d

4/ On that note: Joseph Gordon-Levitt said Meta’s chatbot is dangerous for kids and pushed for federal guardrails around how such AI companions interact with underage users. 🤖

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Video: Opinion | Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Meta’s A.I. Chatbot Is Dangerous for Kids

Mark Zuckerberg has a vision for how A.I. could be used in Meta’s universe. But the actor and filmmaker Joseph Gordon-Levitt is here to point out a flaw: the lack of federal guardrails around how chat...

Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 7d

3/ Meta will begin mining users’ conversations with its Meta AI chatbot conversations to fill their social media feeds on Instagram and Facebook with hyper-targeted ads and posts – with no opt-out option. 👁️

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Meta Will Use AI Chat History to Serve You Even More Targeted Ads

You thought your social media feed was eerily personalized? Get ready for more. And there's no way to opt-out.

Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 7d

2/ Sources said that the Trump administration’s TikTok deal would allow ByteDance to continue to run US advertising and e-commerce on the app, while Oracle would take control of its proprietary content recommendation algorithm. 💱

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