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Justin Hendrix

@justinhendrix.bsky.social
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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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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3h
“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.
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Tech Hype is Cannibalizing the Future
Every day, we are told that we live in the future—but hype is eating the future and leaving us the bones," writes Sun-ha Hong.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 15h
Less than a week after mass layoffs at local newspapers across the US, McClatchy emailed staff celebrating five new hires for its AI-focused Content Innovation Lab. Tech Policy Press fellow Chris Mills Rodrigo reports on growing concern among local journalists.
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Cutting Local Journalists, McClatchy Embraces AI Content
Reporters at McClatchy newspapers across the US are concerned that the company's pivot to AI spells trouble for local journalism, reports Chris Mills Rodrigo.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 17h
Mark MacCarthy and David Beier argue for "legal measures to ensure the safety of the AI development process itself," noting that this summer's incidents "took place during AI research, development and testing." The models "had not been released to the public."
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It's Time to Regulate the AI Development Process
It is time for policymakers to oversee a process to develop scientifically based AI research protocols, write Mark MacCarthy and David Beier.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 19h
ICYMI: The Trump administration pushed other governments not to participate in a European conference on disinformation because of a panel that was focused on whether the US is now a threat for foreign influence and manipulation in Europe.
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Disinformation Conference in Europe Caught Up in Transatlantic Politics
Europe’s top disinformation conference faces government withdrawals and pressure over its debate on foreign interference, free speech and the US.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 23h
Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Three government sponsors pulled their logos from Europe's premier disinformation conference in Vilnius this week. Ramsha Jahangir and Giovana Fleck report on what drove the withdrawals and the transatlantic politics behind them.
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Disinformation Conference in Europe Caught Up in Transatlantic Politics
Europe’s top disinformation conference faces government withdrawals and pressure over its debate on foreign interference, free speech and the US.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
According to a Reuters survey of registered U.S. voters • 84% view AI as a threat to American workers. • 74% view competition from foreign workers as a threat. • 73% view large corporations as a threat. • 60% view illegal immigration as a threat. Immigration is where most voters agree with Trump
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Most US voters say Trump, Congress don't take AI risks seriously, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll showed that wide swaths of the electorate see AI as ‌a major threat to American jobs, underscoring growing skepticism of the technology from voters across the political spectr...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
This product should not exist.
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Why My Conversations with OpenAI’s ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ Made Me Very Worried
A new mode includes a study tool, but it still does a user’s homework. And a children’s safety nonprofit says the chatbot flunked its tests.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It would be great to get clarity on why so many state level supporters pulled out of #Disinfo2026. There's a stink of US meddling about it. I guess US FIMI is the acceptable version of FIMI. bsky.app/profile/robi...
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This might have been the sort of sessions that resulted in Canada and Lithuania pulling out of #Disinfo2026 at the last minute, question is, whether it's from direct US pressure. I think we all deserve an answer, is US foreign interference the acceptable face of FIMI now?
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tuesdays are trapezoidal
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
United States Custom and Border Protection's warrantless device searches at the border have nearly doubled since early 2023, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Jake Laperruque, and a new 2nd Circuit ruling keeps in place "an archaic standard ill-suited for the digital age."
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Circuit Court Ruling on Border Searches Deals Serious Blow to Privacy Rights
The ruling ensures international travel to the US will continue to come with significant costs to privacy, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Jake Laperruque.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The EU Kids Act arrived without an impact assessment. Asha Allen of CDT Europe writes that a law with far-reaching fundamental rights implications cannot be shaped outside democratic due process.
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A Safer Internet Should Not Come with Democratic Shortcuts
EU's push for a safer internet for children must not come at the expense of the democratic scrutiny needed to get digital regulation right, writes Asha Allen.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The wrong platform for science
Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say."
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"A spiralling legal crisis threatens to engulf OpenAI after its AI agents hacked dozens of companies and governments worldwide, with the prospect of a barrage of lawsuits marking the latest test of Sam Altman’s leadership."
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Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers dozens of hacks
Cyber security incidents involving company’s AI tools leave ChatGPT maker vulnerable to wave of lawsuits
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Large Marge's Scary Face in Pee-wee's Big Adventure
ALT: Large Marge's Scary Face in Pee-wee's Big Adventure
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Midterms are about a month away. Early voting has already begun in some states. Mail-in ballots start circulating soon. Some of the usual suspects are already pushing the same "rigged election" rumors we've all heard before. This year, you can play along at home: uwcip.substack.com/p/use-rigged...
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Use "Rigged Election" Bingo to Spot Familiar Election Rumors and Tropes
Election Day is a month away. Play along with your friends, students, and communities!
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 05/10/2026
Brazil election moves to runoff after Lula and Bolsonaro fail to garner majority vote, electoral court says.
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Brazil heads to runoff election after Bolsonaro, Lula fail to garner majority vote
Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, and Brazil’s veteran President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face off on Oct. 25 in a runoff for the top job of Latin America’s powerhouse economy.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“The threats that we’re getting now are mostly from our own government,” said Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, a Republican. “The way elections are being handled by the federal government right now is dangerous, disruptive and in bad faith.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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With threats to midterms, states say Trump administration isn’t helping
U.S. spy agencies see Russia and others plotting to sow distrust and misinformation in the upcoming elections.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posted on Sunday that he would rename ​the company's AI unit to SpaceXSI, ‌following US President Donald Trump's push to use the term 'super intelligence' instead of 'artificial intelligence.'"
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Musk says he will rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI
Donald Trump has been pushing the term "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence."
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar
At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Asked specifically where he diverges from Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei, Altman said 'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency.'"
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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI
The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 04/10/2026
My friend @melissaryan.bsky.social loaned me her platform today to talk about the frenzy on X around the Cornell case — and how it shows that the current policy climate's answer to #MeToo, nine years later, is more like "so what." (* content warnings apply, of course)
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Nine Years After #MeToo, One Answer for Survivors Is ‘So What?’
‘Maybe she was assaulted, maybe not’: from federal agencies to online platforms, people with power and audiences take pains to show they don’t care
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why is Pennsylvania ground zero in the fight over AI data centers? Tech Policy Press editor Justin Hendrix asks Data & Society researchers Maia Woluchem and Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes, authors of "The AI Factory," and organizer Hannah Sassaman of People's Tech Project.
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Pennsylvania is a Swing-State Case Study for Data Center Politics
Maia Woluchem, Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes and Hannah Sassaman on why Pennsylvania communities are resisting AI data centers.
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Lorcan Neill @lorcancneill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Huge thanks to @justinhendrix.bsky.social and the @techpolicypress.bsky.social podcast for having @dkreiss.bsky.social and I on to discuss our new paper on social media platforms and militant democracy!
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
On the Tech Policy Press podcast, editor Justin Hendrix talks with UNC Chapel Hill researchers Daniel Kreiss and Lorcan Neill about their new paper, "Militant Platform Democracy: A Framework for Democracy-Worthy Platform Policies." "Platforms have to proceed from an analysis of power," Kreiss says.
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Why Social Media Platforms Should Adopt a 'Militant Democracy' Framework
Daniel Kreiss and Lorcan Neill on what social media platforms should do when the state itself becomes a threat to democracy.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"A new White House task force will have 120 days to report on the risks and opportunities of artificial intelligence—and determine the federal government’s responsibility—according to Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligence who effectively becomes the administration’s AI czar."
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Exclusive | New AI Czar Unveils Goals, Members of White House Task Force
The group will examine the technology’s risks and opportunities—and focus on making sure the U.S. is first in the field.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The September US tech policy roundup from Freedman Consulting and Tech Policy Press tracks Trump’s order on using the term “super intelligence” to AI safety pledges, stalled bills in Congress, state action, key court rulings and more.
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September 2026 US Tech Policy Roundup
A roundup of the most important US tech policy developments in the federal government, the courts, and beyond from Freedman Consulting and Tech Policy Press.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 03/10/2026
NEW: After we investigated a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills that churn out garbage using fake journalists and subject matter experts, Google has officially cracked down on the scheme: futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Google Updates Guidelines to Punish Sites That Use Fake Bylines and AI-Generated Headshots
Google has updated its guidelines to forbid the use of fake bylines, AI-generated headshots, and other acts of "deception."
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New York City Comptroller Mark Levine told The City Reporter’s FAQ NYC podcast this week that the city is facing an uptick in AI-enabled cyberattacks.
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NYC Already Battling AI Attacks as Council Prepares to Grill Industry Leaders
As lawmakers introduce new measures to get a handle on AI adoption in the city government, bots and agents are already attacking New York’s contracting and payment systems.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Brazil's platform rules have focused on harms from commercial platforms. João Alexandre Peschanski of Wikimedia Brasil, Amalia Toledo of the Wikimedia Foundation and Elise Silva of the University of Pittsburgh argue digital public goods like Wikipedia need their own legal category.
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Wikipedia Isn't Big Tech, and Brazil's Platform Rules Should Say So
Brazil's approach to platform regulation risks undermining Wikipedia and the knowledge commons, write João Alexandre Peschanski, Amalia Toledo and Elise Silva.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I love oxtails
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Re-upping @danielstone.bsky.social on OpenAI's Australia intrusion: www.techpolicy.press/when-ai-agen...
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When AI Agents Break In, Governments Shouldn't Be Stuck With the Cleanup
OpenAI tasked its agent with answering a question about public spending. It has left us with a much bigger question about public power, writes Daniel Stone.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Economic violence against women through the use of digital IDs is a growing, rarely recognized problem in Denmark and across Europe, reports Polina Bachlakova.
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How Denmark's National Digital ID Fuels Economic Violence Against Women
They are meant to be secure—but digital IDs and banking apps are enabling economic abuse against women, reports Polina Bachlakova.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OpenAI's agent went looking for Australian medicine spending figures and got write access to a Medicare statistics server. Daniel Stone of Diffusion.Au ( @danielstone.bsky.social) asks who gets stuck with the cleanup. 🧵
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When AI Agents Break In, Governments Shouldn't Be Stuck With the Cleanup
OpenAI tasked its agent with answering a question about public spending. It has left us with a much bigger question about public power, writes Daniel Stone.
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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Australian govt wants to give us an off switch for "the algorithm", which is misdirected. We need better public understanding, more imagination, and better independent oversight. Me, @antmandan.bsky.social & Amanda Third in @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/australia-wa...
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Australia Wants an Off Switch for 'The Algorithm.' That's the Wrong Fix
Concerns about algorithms are real, but they are not the ‘bad guys’ in and of themselves, write Daniel Angus, Jean Burgess and Amanda Third.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Russia's new AI law borrows the vocabulary of contemporary AI regulation but uses it to combine industrial policy with technological control, write Dmitry Kuteynikov and Lyubov Popovets.
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Russia’s AI Law Puts Control Ahead of Capability
Dmitry Kuteynikov and Lyubov Popovets examine Russia’s first comprehensive AI law, its rushed passage, and what it means for AI development.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Grab drivers in Vietnam staged a two-day app boycott last month over commission rates. Tech Policy Press fellow Lam Le reports on what happened, and what it reveals about the changing politics of platform work in Southeast Asia.
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Vietnam’s Gig Workers Are Finding New Ways to Push Back
Growing public solidarity and new regulations across Southeast Asia are putting pressure on Vietnam to address platform work, reports Lam Le.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@danielstone.bsky.social proposes making disclosure a legal duty, and that firms such as OpenAI must hand affected organizations the logs and let them recover costs. Because, as he puts it, "No one should need a prime minister to get an answer."
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When AI Agents Break In, Governments Shouldn't Be Stuck With the Cleanup
OpenAI tasked its agent with answering a question about public spending. It has left us with a much bigger question about public power, writes Daniel Stone.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"You can decide never to use an AI agent and still have to deal with the work it creates." AI efficiency claims, Stone argues, risk "mistaking work passed to someone else for work saved."
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When AI Agents Break In, Governments Shouldn't Be Stuck With the Cleanup
OpenAI tasked its agent with answering a question about public spending. It has left us with a much bigger question about public power, writes Daniel Stone.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The warning the company eventually sent was to a general public inbox. Stone notes OpenAI has roughly 75 staff in Australia and a lobbying firm on retainer. "OpenAI could find the right people when it wanted something. It should have made the same effort when the news was bad."
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When AI Agents Break In, Governments Shouldn't Be Stuck With the Cleanup
OpenAI tasked its agent with answering a question about public spending. It has left us with a much bigger question about public power, writes Daniel Stone.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The timeline: The agent got in June 18. OpenAI says it noticed Aug. 11, 54 days later. It told Australia Sept. 10. That's 84 days, "almost three months, from the first access to the warning being raised," per @danielstone.bsky.social.
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When AI Agents Break In, Governments Shouldn't Be Stuck With the Cleanup
OpenAI tasked its agent with answering a question about public spending. It has left us with a much bigger question about public power, writes Daniel Stone.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OpenAI's agent went looking for Australian medicine spending figures and got write access to a Medicare statistics server. Daniel Stone of Diffusion.Au ( @danielstone.bsky.social) asks who gets stuck with the cleanup. 🧵
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When AI Agents Break In, Governments Shouldn't Be Stuck With the Cleanup
OpenAI tasked its agent with answering a question about public spending. It has left us with a much bigger question about public power, writes Daniel Stone.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here is my breakdown of the statements that the jury decided against. Jurors found 26 of 29 statements on the jury form were deceptive, and willfully so. And it found five of the company's trade practices unconscionable and willful.
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Eight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa Fe
A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Listening to the livestream of the First Judicial District Court in New Mexico hearing to determine the penalties Meta will face. The state just asked for $35-$40 billion penalty (roughly ~20% of the total possible given the ~43m violations and $5k maximum penalty per violation).
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New Mexico court to rule on penalties Meta faces in privacy violation case
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The First Judicial District Court in New Mexico is set to make a ruling Thursday on the penalties Meta will face. This comes after a jury returned its verdict finding dozens of …
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 01/10/2026
Attorney General Letitia James has asked New Yorkers to report AI companies who might be violating the law.
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Why New York City Has Become an AI Mecca
OpenAI and Anthropic have opened up huge offices in Manhattan, while smaller companies have been drawn to the city’s talent and its status as an economic powerhouse.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Days before Brazil's election, Meta briefly blocked President Lula's campaign page from running political ads and removed an Instagram profile behind a viral video on Flávio Bolsonaro. Both decisions were reversed, but raised public concerns. Brazilian journalist Laís Martins reports.
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On Eve of Brazil Elections, Meta Content Moderation Decisions Raise Questions
Two recent moderation decisions—while later reversed—have raised concerns about the company's policies and practices, writes Laís Martins.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When your tech policy is not keeping up with your tech politics.... "63% of Americans believe that politicians pay too little attention to tech and AI, 9 in 10 want action on data privacy, and concern cuts across party lines." via @ajdamico.bsky.social @knightfoundation.org
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Knight Foundation-NORC Poll: Americans want government to prioritize technology and AI issues - Knight Foundation
New technology and artificial intelligence are dramatically reshaping how Americans stay informed. Knight Foundation and NORC at the University of Chicago fielded a new national survey to understand A...
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