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The Tech Oversight Project is a nonprofit dedicated to holding Big Tech accountable by passing comprehensive antitrust, privacy protections, and children's safety legislation.

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This week in The Dispatch we’re covering early signs that Big Tech AI companies are losing the culture wars, states get gag-ordered into subsidizing data centers.
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Big Tech Accountability Winning on Culture, Data Centers Black-boxed by NDAs
This week in The Dispatch we’re covering early signs that Big Tech AI companies are losing the culture wars, states get gag-ordered into subsidizing data centers.
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demandprogress.bsky.social
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.
techoversight.bsky.social Tech Oversight Project @techoversight.bsky.social · 1d
🚨 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.
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
techoversight.bsky.social
🚨 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.
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
techoversight.bsky.social
Big Tech’s data-center boom runs on NDAs — billion-dollar projects officials can’t describe, negotiate, or even identify. Communities pay higher utility costs while Big Tech turns public infrastructure into private property.

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Big Tech Accountability Winning on Culture, Data Centers Black-boxed by NDAs
This week in The Dispatch we’re covering early signs that Big Tech AI companies are losing the culture wars, states get gag-ordered into subsidizing data centers.
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November 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Mark Zuckerberg has blood on his hands. Here's our statement. techoversight.org/2025/11/22/m...
Meta’s Unsealed Internal Documents Prove Years of Deliberate Harm and Inaction to Protect Minors - Tech Oversight Project
Mark Zuckerberg has blood on his hands: he has known for over a decade that pedophiles and sex traffickers were targeting children on his platforms, and instead of fixing the problem, what he did was ...
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November 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
techoversight.bsky.social
Big Tech’s AI money scheme is simple: they invest in a startup, the startup is required to spend the money right back on their cloud, and everyone pretends it’s “growth.” At best, it's a house of cards. At worst, it's a bubble.

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Big Tech Accountability Winning on Culture, Data Centers Black-boxed by NDAs
This week in The Dispatch we’re covering early signs that Big Tech AI companies are losing the culture wars, states get gag-ordered into subsidizing data centers.
dispatch.techoversight.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
techoversight.bsky.social
Mark Zuckerberg has blood on his hands. Here's our statement. techoversight.org/2025/11/22/m...
Meta’s Unsealed Internal Documents Prove Years of Deliberate Harm and Inaction to Protect Minors - Tech Oversight Project
Mark Zuckerberg has blood on his hands: he has known for over a decade that pedophiles and sex traffickers were targeting children on his platforms, and instead of fixing the problem, what he did was ...
techoversight.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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sachalouise.bsky.social
pay very close attention to this "100% confidence" standard because it's the same one AI companies like openAI use to determine whether or not a user is talking about killing themselves:
While Meta developed AI tools to monitor the platforms for harmful content, the company didn’t automatically delete that content even when it determined with “100% confidence” that it violated Meta’s policies against child sexual-abuse material or eating-disorder content. Meta’s AI classifiers did not automatically delete posts that glorified self-harm unless they were 94% certain they violated platform policy, according to the plaintiffs’ brief. As a result, most of that content remained on the platform, where teenage users often discovered it. In a 2021 internal company survey cited by plaintiffs, more than 8% of respondents aged 13 to 15 reported having seen someone harm themselves, or threaten to do so, on Instagram during the past week.
November 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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sachalouise.bsky.social
oh! using AI for good at lea--- err, nvm. job well done @mosseri.bsky.social!
Other company researchers allegedly built an AI “classifier” to identify content that would lead to negative appearance comparison, so that Meta could avoid recommending it to vulnerable kids. But Mosseri allegedly killed the project, disappointing developers who “felt like they had a solution” to “a big problem.”
November 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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sachalouise.bsky.social
Oh neat Instagram execs also found a way to make preteen girls not so anorexic or suicidal but it hurt engagement so they killed the feature
But after a series of tests, Meta backtracked on Project Daisy. It determined the feature was “pretty negative to FB metrics,” including ad revenue, according to the plaintiffs’ brief, which quotes an unnamed employee on the growth team insisting: “It’s a social comparison app, fucking get used to it.”
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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sachalouise.bsky.social
4 million users under 13 in 2015. mark zuckerberg was letting pedophiles contact children and has known about it for over a decade
November 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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sachalouise.bsky.social
how many kids have taken their own lives because they were sextorted since 2019
"For years Instagram has had a well-documented problem of adults harassing teens. Around 2019, company researchers recommended making all teen accounts private by default in order to prevent adult strangers from connecting with kids, according to the plaintiffs’ brief. Instead of implementing this recommendation, Meta asked its growth team to study the potential impact of making all teen accounts private. The growth team was pessimistic, according to the brief, and responded that the change would likely reduce engagement. "
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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sachalouise.bsky.social
🆒🆒
"Indeed, in December 2020, when the Senate Judiciary Committee asked the company in a set of written questions whether it was “able to determine whether increased use of its platform among teenage girls has any correlation with increased signs of depression” and “increased signs of anxiety,” the company offered only a one-word answer: “No.”"
November 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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sachalouise.bsky.social
yes, the answer is yes
"At least one Meta employee was uncomfortable with the implications of this decision: “If the results are bad and we don’t publish and they leak,” this employee wrote, according to the brief, “is it going to look like tobacco companies doing research and knowing cigs were bad and then keeping that info to themselves?”"
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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sachalouise.bsky.social
Meta's internal research found that logging off FB & Instagram for a week improved mental health so they buried it of course
"In late 2019, according to the brief, Meta designed a “deactivation study,” which found that users who stopped using Facebook and Instagram for a week showed lower rates of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. Meta halted the study and did not publicly disclose the results, stating that the research study was biased by the “existing media narratives around the company.”"
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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sachalouise.bsky.social
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7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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sachalouise.bsky.social
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!
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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profhilaryallen.bsky.social
AOC is wise to the fact that the AI industry is openly angling for government bailouts. The AI industry is already a product of corporate welfare policies (incl dispensations from copyright enforcement and data center permitting) but it's about to get worse.

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November 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
techoversight.bsky.social
"In effect, the judge preserved the very monopoly he ruled unlawful — and turned it into a down payment on the next one."

We wrote about how Google's "punishment" for monopolizing search is giving it the freedom to monopolize new AI markets.

dispatch.techoversight.org/big-tech-ac...
Big Tech Accountability Winning on Culture, Data Centers Black-boxed by NDAs
This week in The Dispatch we’re covering early signs that Big Tech AI companies are losing the culture wars, states get gag-ordered into subsidizing data centers.
dispatch.techoversight.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Big Tech wanted federal AI preemption. Voters didn’t. Congress didn’t. So Trump is trying to do it alone — overriding states to protect Big Tech profits, not the public.

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The Tech Oversight Project Pans Trump’s AI EO, Another Big Tech Handout - Tech Oversight Project
Trump will deny federal funding and sue states protecting children from chatbots, tackling AI surveillance pricing, and protecting workers from mass layoffs WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following statement in response to reports that the Trump Administration is planning an executive order on AI which aims to preempt and block state […]
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November 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Big Tech spent a year trying to erase state AI protections. Congress said no. Trump’s EO tries again — overriding states so companies can dodge liability for harms their own engineers keep warning about.
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Trump administration drafts an executive order to challenge state AI laws
The draft executive order would try to block states from enacting their own laws regulating AI, according to a person familiar with the matter.
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
techoversight.bsky.social
The Trump Administration's plan to issue an executive order which aims to block & preempt state AI laws "threatens to create a taxpayer-funded death panel that will determine whether kids live or die when they decide what state laws will actually apply." - @sachalouise.bsky.social
The Tech Oversight Project Pans Trump’s AI EO, Another Big Tech Handout - Tech Oversight Project
Trump will deny federal funding and sue states protecting children from chatbots, tackling AI surveillance pricing, and protecting workers from mass layoffs WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight ...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
techoversight.bsky.social
"To be clear: Nothing has fundamentally changed between now and Big Tech’s stunning 99-1 defeat...except that more people have been scammed and more kids are dead. Democrats and Republicans need to rise up and defeat this Big Tech handout once and for all.” - @sachalouise.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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"Big Tech AI’s dangerous products are killing people, discriminating against vulnerable communities, and jacking up energy bills. Americans cannot afford AI amnesty." - @sachalouise.bsky.social

Our statement on resurrecting the politically toxic AI preemption law
techoversight.org/2025/11/19/...
ALERT: Zombie AI Preemption Resurrects Despite Near-Universal Opposition - Tech Oversight Project
AI Moratorium Defeating Coalition is Already Fighting Back “Big Tech CEOs and their Republican allies in Congress are resurrecting the politically-toxic AI preemption rider to give their law-breaking companies a blanket get-out-of-jail-free card. Big Tech AI’s dangerous products are killing people, discriminating against vulnerable communities, and jacking up energy bills. Americans cannot afford AI amnesty,” […]
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November 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
techoversight.bsky.social
When celebrities are talking about AI chatbot harms, deepfakes, land grabs, and data centers that drain local power and public money, it's no longer a niche policy fight.

More on how Big Tech Accountability is Winning the Culture Wars:
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Big Tech Accountability Winning on Culture, Data Centers Black-boxed by NDAs
This week in The Dispatch we’re covering early signs that Big Tech AI companies are losing the culture wars, states get gag-ordered into subsidizing data centers.
dispatch.techoversight.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
techoversight.bsky.social
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.
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM