Justin Hendrix
@justinhendrix.bsky.social
Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
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On enforcing the DSA:
“Brussels will have to choose either to pull the trigger on potential enforcement actions against some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names or admit that, for now, its digital rulebook must run secondary to the bloc’s wider reliance on the US”
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“Brussels will have to choose either to pull the trigger on potential enforcement actions against some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names or admit that, for now, its digital rulebook must run secondary to the bloc’s wider reliance on the US”
www.techpolicy.press/the-eus-onli...
The EU’s Online Safety Moonshot Is Losing Altitude
European policymakers must acknowledge that current birthing pains linked to the Digital Services Act are borne from within the bloc, writes Mark Scott.
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February 16, 2026 at 3:05 PM
On enforcing the DSA:
“Brussels will have to choose either to pull the trigger on potential enforcement actions against some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names or admit that, for now, its digital rulebook must run secondary to the bloc’s wider reliance on the US”
www.techpolicy.press/the-eus-onli...
“Brussels will have to choose either to pull the trigger on potential enforcement actions against some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names or admit that, for now, its digital rulebook must run secondary to the bloc’s wider reliance on the US”
www.techpolicy.press/the-eus-onli...
As the India AI Impact Summit gets underway, thinking about this anecdote from Tech Policy Press fellow and Internet Freedom Foundation founding director Apar Gupta, who travels every other day on Mathura Road to reach the High Court and Supreme Court in Delhi. www.techpolicy.press/indias-ai-im...
February 16, 2026 at 2:53 PM
As the India AI Impact Summit gets underway, thinking about this anecdote from Tech Policy Press fellow and Internet Freedom Foundation founding director Apar Gupta, who travels every other day on Mathura Road to reach the High Court and Supreme Court in Delhi. www.techpolicy.press/indias-ai-im...
India says it wants a "third way" on AI, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Varsha Bansal. But with Big Tech selling "sovereignty as a service" and a desire to cut deals, experts warn of a paradox — pursuing independence while relying on the very giants it hopes to counterbalance.
What Is at Stake as Global Leaders Gather for India’s AI Summit
The AI Impact Summit opens in New Delhi, marking India’s bid to shape global AI rules, attract investment and accelerate adoption, reports Varsha Bansal.
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February 16, 2026 at 1:56 PM
India says it wants a "third way" on AI, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Varsha Bansal. But with Big Tech selling "sovereignty as a service" and a desire to cut deals, experts warn of a paradox — pursuing independence while relying on the very giants it hopes to counterbalance.
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My first piece for @techpolicypress.bsky.social - a primer of sorts on Ireland’s role in EU tech regulation
Context for the year ahead, as the 2 foundations of the economy - the 2 forces that dragged post independence Ireland out of poverty - the EU & US FDI - go to war
Context for the year ahead, as the 2 foundations of the economy - the 2 forces that dragged post independence Ireland out of poverty - the EU & US FDI - go to war
Tech Policy Press fellow Liz Carolan unpacks how Ireland’s media regulator, Coimisiún na Meán, became the EU’s chief enforcer of the Digital Services Act, now facing lawsuits from tech companies and mounting political pressure from Washington.
Why Ireland is at the Center of the Transatlantic Battle Over Digital Regulation
Coimisiún na Meán is at the center of a transatlantic clash over EU tech rules, facing US political pressure and lawsuits as it enforces the DSA.
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February 16, 2026 at 9:00 AM
My first piece for @techpolicypress.bsky.social - a primer of sorts on Ireland’s role in EU tech regulation
Context for the year ahead, as the 2 foundations of the economy - the 2 forces that dragged post independence Ireland out of poverty - the EU & US FDI - go to war
Context for the year ahead, as the 2 foundations of the economy - the 2 forces that dragged post independence Ireland out of poverty - the EU & US FDI - go to war
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Love this piece on language equity in content moderation tools.
The authors argue that rather than focusing on investment equity across languages, como resources and interventions should be motivated by RISKS, e.g. social vulnerability and degree of reliance on the system.
The authors argue that rather than focusing on investment equity across languages, como resources and interventions should be motivated by RISKS, e.g. social vulnerability and degree of reliance on the system.
Of roughly 7,000 global languages, only a handful are thriving digitally, with a mere 10 languages making up 82% of all internet content. This disparity is the core challenge for content moderation, write Sujata Mukherjee and Sasha Maria Mathew. Measurement is part of the solution, they say.
How Measurement Can Fix Content Moderation's Language Equity Gap
Of roughly 7,000 global languages, only a handful are thriving digitally, write Sasha Maria Mathew and Sujata Mukherjee.
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February 16, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Love this piece on language equity in content moderation tools.
The authors argue that rather than focusing on investment equity across languages, como resources and interventions should be motivated by RISKS, e.g. social vulnerability and degree of reliance on the system.
The authors argue that rather than focusing on investment equity across languages, como resources and interventions should be motivated by RISKS, e.g. social vulnerability and degree of reliance on the system.
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Tech Policy Press fellow Apar Gupta argues India's AI Summit is more spectacle than substance—government & Big Tech dominate the program while civil society, labor, and human rights voices are largely shut out of high-level forums. www.techpolicy.press/indias-ai-im...
India’s ‘AI Impact Summit’ Promises Little More Than Spectacle
The fourth in a series of convenings that kicked off in Bletchley Park in 2023, the summit is the first held in the Global South, writes Apar Gupta.
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February 15, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Tech Policy Press fellow Apar Gupta argues India's AI Summit is more spectacle than substance—government & Big Tech dominate the program while civil society, labor, and human rights voices are largely shut out of high-level forums. www.techpolicy.press/indias-ai-im...
Tech Policy Press fellow Apar Gupta argues India's AI Summit is more spectacle than substance—government & Big Tech dominate the program while civil society, labor, and human rights voices are largely shut out of high-level forums. www.techpolicy.press/indias-ai-im...
India’s ‘AI Impact Summit’ Promises Little More Than Spectacle
The fourth in a series of convenings that kicked off in Bletchley Park in 2023, the summit is the first held in the Global South, writes Apar Gupta.
www.techpolicy.press
February 15, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Tech Policy Press fellow Apar Gupta argues India's AI Summit is more spectacle than substance—government & Big Tech dominate the program while civil society, labor, and human rights voices are largely shut out of high-level forums. www.techpolicy.press/indias-ai-im...
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This is great from @lizcarolan.com
Tech Policy Press fellow Liz Carolan unpacks how Ireland’s media regulator, Coimisiún na Meán, became the EU’s chief enforcer of the Digital Services Act, now facing lawsuits from tech companies and mounting political pressure from Washington.
Why Ireland is at the Center of the Transatlantic Battle Over Digital Regulation
Coimisiún na Meán is at the center of a transatlantic clash over EU tech rules, facing US political pressure and lawsuits as it enforces the DSA.
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February 15, 2026 at 12:32 AM
This is great from @lizcarolan.com
Hegseth's strange comment that "We will not employ AI models that won't allow you to fight wars" during his speech at SpaceX on January 12 makes more sense now in light of what we are learning about the disagreement with Anthropic over use of its models.
Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
Anthropic has not agreed to the Pentagon's terms and defense officials are getting fed up after months of difficult negotiations.
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February 15, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Hegseth's strange comment that "We will not employ AI models that won't allow you to fight wars" during his speech at SpaceX on January 12 makes more sense now in light of what we are learning about the disagreement with Anthropic over use of its models.
The subject makes possessive but seemingly conciliatory declarations toward his victim, deploying deception and manipulation tactics to bind the relationship, occasionally showing tenderness when necessary to further his goals.
Rubio says U.S., Europe ‘belong together,’ despite rifts over Trump policies
While some saw the remarks as reassuring, key European leaders renewed calls for more independence from the U.S. amid tensions over issues like Greenland and Ukraine.
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February 15, 2026 at 12:31 AM
The subject makes possessive but seemingly conciliatory declarations toward his victim, deploying deception and manipulation tactics to bind the relationship, occasionally showing tenderness when necessary to further his goals.
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"These crisis scenarios are not speculative fantasies. Each is constructed from real-world trends identified in the report: advances in generative AI, platform dependence, institutional fragility, declining trust, and intensifying geopolitical competition."
Epistemic security—the protection of information ecosystems, supply chains, and infrastructure—is fast becoming a core determinant of crisis resilience, writes Elizabeth Seger from Demos. www.techpolicy.press/why-crisis-r...
Why Crisis Resilience Depends on Epistemic Security
If we want to prevent tomorrow’s crises from spiraling out of control, we must recognize epistemic systems as critical infrastructure, writes Elizabeth Seger.
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February 14, 2026 at 2:33 PM
"These crisis scenarios are not speculative fantasies. Each is constructed from real-world trends identified in the report: advances in generative AI, platform dependence, institutional fragility, declining trust, and intensifying geopolitical competition."
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Tech Policy Press fellow Liz Carolan unpacks how Ireland’s media regulator, Coimisiún na Meán, became the EU’s chief enforcer of the Digital Services Act, now facing lawsuits from tech companies and mounting political pressure from Washington.
Why Ireland is at the Center of the Transatlantic Battle Over Digital Regulation
Coimisiún na Meán is at the center of a transatlantic clash over EU tech rules, facing US political pressure and lawsuits as it enforces the DSA.
buff.ly
February 14, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Tech Policy Press fellow Liz Carolan unpacks how Ireland’s media regulator, Coimisiún na Meán, became the EU’s chief enforcer of the Digital Services Act, now facing lawsuits from tech companies and mounting political pressure from Washington.
"Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found."
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.
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February 14, 2026 at 4:27 PM
"Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found."
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Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
Next week’s India AI Impact Summit is framed around “democratizing AI.” But as India expands AI-driven surveillance, predictive policing, and welfare automation, minorities and marginalized communities are bearing the costs, writes Tavishi.
India’s Global AI Pitch Masks A Troubling Reality At Home
Without regulatory oversight and guardrails, AI in India will continue to function less as a public good and more as a tool of oppression, writes Tavishi.
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February 14, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Next week’s India AI Impact Summit is framed around “democratizing AI.” But as India expands AI-driven surveillance, predictive policing, and welfare automation, minorities and marginalized communities are bearing the costs, writes Tavishi.
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As AI becomes more central to how public institutions operate, these early policy signals can shape everything from procurement to ethical standards. It’s worth paying attention to how they unfold.
A ProPublica report on plans to use AI to write regulations at the US Department of Transportation should be a warning signal for public interest advocates and litigators, writes Jordan Ascher, policy counsel at Governing for Impact. It’s time to prepare for a flood of machine-generated rules.
Trump Administration Official Says Quiet Part Out Loud on AI-in-Government Plans
A ProPublica report on plans to use AI to write regulations at the US Department of Transportation should be a warning signal, writes Jordan Ascher.
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February 14, 2026 at 1:40 AM
As AI becomes more central to how public institutions operate, these early policy signals can shape everything from procurement to ethical standards. It’s worth paying attention to how they unfold.
"[DHS] is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency."
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
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February 14, 2026 at 2:20 AM
"[DHS] is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency."
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In 2021, I reported on an internal meeting at Facebook about discussions to put facial recognition on new smartglasses. One of their execs complained about the coverage and said the co would have a "very public discussion" about the tech.
They never did. And now: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
They never did. And now: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
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February 13, 2026 at 11:21 PM
In 2021, I reported on an internal meeting at Facebook about discussions to put facial recognition on new smartglasses. One of their execs complained about the coverage and said the co would have a "very public discussion" about the tech.
They never did. And now: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
They never did. And now: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Vibecoding regime change www.axios.com/2026/02/13/a...
Pentagon used Anthropic's Claude during Maduro raid
Anthropic is currently in tense discussions with the Pentagon about whether to loosen guardrails when its models are being used by the military.
www.axios.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Vibecoding regime change www.axios.com/2026/02/13/a...
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The most important question about AI isn't determining whether the machine thinks — it's whether interacting with it displaces the conditions under which we think, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
The Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without Thought
It is not simple stubbornness that LLMs are not “intelligent,” much less a form of “general” intelligence, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
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February 13, 2026 at 5:54 PM
The most important question about AI isn't determining whether the machine thinks — it's whether interacting with it displaces the conditions under which we think, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
Of roughly 7,000 global languages, only a handful are thriving digitally, with a mere 10 languages making up 82% of all internet content. This disparity is the core challenge for content moderation write Sujata Mukherjee and Sasha Maria Mathew. Measurement is part of the solution, they say.
How Measurement Can Fix Content Moderation's Language Equity Gap
Of roughly 7,000 global languages, only a handful are thriving digitally, write Sasha Maria Mathew and Sujata Mukherjee.
techpolicy.press
February 13, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Of roughly 7,000 global languages, only a handful are thriving digitally, with a mere 10 languages making up 82% of all internet content. This disparity is the core challenge for content moderation write Sujata Mukherjee and Sasha Maria Mathew. Measurement is part of the solution, they say.
Anger as US report on EU ‘censorship’ leaves commission, NGOs’ names unredacted euobserver.com/202908/anger...
Anger as US report on EU ‘censorship’ leaves commission, NGOs’ names unredacted
The recent US report on 'EU censorship' left dozens of names of civil society and EU officials unredacted in emails – while carefully hiding company employee names.
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February 13, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Anger as US report on EU ‘censorship’ leaves commission, NGOs’ names unredacted euobserver.com/202908/anger...
Tech Policy Press fellow Tatiana Dias reports on X’s efforts in Brazil to distance itself from Grok after the AI tool generated millions of sexualized images. Brazilian regulators aren’t buying it, and now X Brasil is facing demands for technical safeguards backed by the threat of daily fines.
X Tried to Sidestep Brazil's Inquiry on AI Deepfakes. The Government Just Pushed Back.
Tatiana Dias reports on Brazilian authorities efforts to confront X over Grok, after the AI tool generated millions of sexualized images.
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February 13, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Tech Policy Press fellow Tatiana Dias reports on X’s efforts in Brazil to distance itself from Grok after the AI tool generated millions of sexualized images. Brazilian regulators aren’t buying it, and now X Brasil is facing demands for technical safeguards backed by the threat of daily fines.
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Tell that to China.
Google’s top legal officer Kent Walker warned that Europe risks undermining its own competitiveness drive by restricting access to foreign technology by ‘erecting walls’ as Brussels steps up efforts to reduce its reliance on US tech giants.
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Google warns EU against ‘erecting walls’ in tech sovereignty push
[FREE TO READ] Europe risks undermining its own competitiveness drive through curbs on US groups, tech company says
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February 13, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Tell that to China.
"Meta, Facebook’s parent company, plans to add the feature to its smart glasses, which it makes with the owner of Ray-Ban and Oakley, as soon as this year, according to four people involved with the plans who were not authorized to speak publicly about confidential discussions."
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
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February 13, 2026 at 12:12 PM
"Meta, Facebook’s parent company, plans to add the feature to its smart glasses, which it makes with the owner of Ray-Ban and Oakley, as soon as this year, according to four people involved with the plans who were not authorized to speak publicly about confidential discussions."