Aaron Mak
@aarontmak.bsky.social
Politico tech reporter. Signal: aarontmak.23. Email: amak(at)politico(dot)com
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Good chat with @aarontmak.bsky.social about our POLITICO Magazine oped on the Trump AI doctrine.
Helping big tech companies build chatbots while destroying government capacity isn’t how we win. Congress has a role to play to restore datasets and R&D and to make AI safe and effective for people.
Helping big tech companies build chatbots while destroying government capacity isn’t how we win. Congress has a role to play to restore datasets and R&D and to make AI safe and effective for people.
Trump may be undermining his own AI goals
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December 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Good chat with @aarontmak.bsky.social about our POLITICO Magazine oped on the Trump AI doctrine.
Helping big tech companies build chatbots while destroying government capacity isn’t how we win. Congress has a role to play to restore datasets and R&D and to make AI safe and effective for people.
Helping big tech companies build chatbots while destroying government capacity isn’t how we win. Congress has a role to play to restore datasets and R&D and to make AI safe and effective for people.
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NEW: A federal judge rejected the FTC's claim that Facebook’s parent company monopolized the “personal social networking” market for connecting with friends and family, pointing to new, major competitors like TikTok.
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Judge rules Meta doesn’t have a social media monopoly
It’s the latest decision against the government's push to limit the size of Big Tech.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
NEW: A federal judge rejected the FTC's claim that Facebook’s parent company monopolized the “personal social networking” market for connecting with friends and family, pointing to new, major competitors like TikTok.
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Spoke with @aarontmak.bsky.social of @politico.com on how the fight over "free speech" on technology platforms abroad has changed a lot in the last few years, especially depending on what foreign market you're in.
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Elon Musk fights America's speech wars abroad
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September 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Spoke with @aarontmak.bsky.social of @politico.com on how the fight over "free speech" on technology platforms abroad has changed a lot in the last few years, especially depending on what foreign market you're in.
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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