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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 projectliberty.io.

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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 02/07/2026
In our newsletter, @baratunde.com argues that agency is not productivity. AI enables us to do more. But that’s not agency. That’s capability. The AI companies want us to see one axis: capabilities. Move to the right and do more. But there’s another axis, power, and we are making no progress on it.
The agency bait and switch
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 22/04/2026
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AI represents a radical inversion of these properties. AI systems, especially large-scale, foundation and generative models, are centralized, opaque, capital-intensive, and asymmetric by design.
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 08/04/2026
What does the public think? A sizable share of the American public is anxious about AI’s impact on both individuals and communities. Our friends at Fathom published research recently on what Americans really want with AI governance. framerusercontent.com/assets/Ej8W1...
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 04/04/2026
Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Our newsletter this week explores what Meta and YouTube’s loss in a landmark California trial on social media means for our digital future. Scroll down for more! And here’s Issue 41 of our Week in Review series. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 03/04/2026
A new report from the Project Liberty Institute, Social Web Foundation, Public AI, & @modalfoundation.eurosky.social stresses the importance of continued dialogue to create shared problem definitions, priorities, and identify next steps across research, standards development, and gov communities.
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 01/04/2026
How do we know when we’re at a tipping point? Last week, a California jury might have answered it. It found Meta and YouTube legally liable for harming a young woman through addictive product design—the first verdict of its kind. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/t...
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 27/03/2026
Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Our newsletter last week and this week explored the much-feared AI jobs crisis – and everything we know about AI’s impact on the labor market. Scroll down for more! And here are Issues 39+40 of our Week in Review series. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 17/03/2026
Happy Tuesday from Project Liberty! Last week’s newsletter is on interoperability: the secret sauce that keeps the internet open and accessible across platforms – now at an inflection point in the AI revolution. Scroll for more! And here’s Issue 38 of our Week in Review series. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 10/03/2026
"Interoperability": the word that could save the internet Read more in this week's newsletter: projectlibertynewsletter.substack.com/p/is-ai-work...
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 06/03/2026
Happy Friday from Project Liberty! This week’s newsletter explores the dangers of outsourcing our cognition to “thinking machines” – AI agents that go far beyond Frank Herbert’s worst fears. And here’s Issue 37 of our Week in Review series. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 04/03/2026
At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, we convened governments and global partners for a timely discussion on Steering DPI & AI Innovation toward Public Value Maximisation. Photo Credit: Christopher Dunker
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 27/02/2026
Happy Friday from Project Liberty! This week’s newsletter tackles a new study by The Collective Intelligence Project outlining 5 “paradoxes” around how people are using AI – and how they’re trusting it. And here’s Issue 36 of our Week in Review series. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 20/02/2026
Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s Issue 35 of our Week in Review series. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 13/02/2026
Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s Issue 34 of our Week in Review series -- with AI cloud sovereignty a major theme this week, let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 06/02/2026
Happy Friday from Project Liberty! This week’s newsletter details the rise of surveillance capitalism in the AI age, with personalized ads now entering the world’s leading AI chatbots. And here’s Issue 33 of our Week in Review series. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 30/01/2026
Happy Friday from Project Liberty! This week’s newsletter focuses on the victim of the greatest theft in human history: your attention. And here’s Issue 32 of our Week in Review series. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 26/01/2026
Happy Monday from Project Liberty! Last week’s newsletter asked us a simple but disturbing question: do we need to copyright our own faces in the AI age? And here’s Issue 31 of our Week in Review series. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 17/01/2026
Happy Friday from Project Liberty! This week’s newsletter discusses the proliferation of AI privacy policies – and what’s really in the fine print. And here’s Issue 30 of our Week in Review series. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 13/01/2026
Most of us agree to thousands of words of terms & conditions without reading a single sentence. What are we exactly signing?
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 02/01/2026
Happy Friday and Happy New Year from Project Liberty! Here’s the first Week in Review of 2026. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 26/12/2025
Happy Friday from Project Liberty! This week’s newsletter discusses the importance of wisdom in the age of AI. Scroll down for more! And here’s Issue 27 of our Week in Review series. Happy holidays! Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 19/12/2025
Happy Friday from Project Liberty! We’re back with Issue 26 of our Week(s) in Review series. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 05/12/2025
Happy Friday from Project Liberty! We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Issue 25 of our Week in Review series is here. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 26/11/2025
Happy early Thanksgiving from Project Liberty! Issue 24 of our Week in Review series is dropping a few days early. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 21/11/2025
Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Our newsletter this week asks why cars, restaurants, apartments, and worksites have strict safety standards – but not social media. Scroll down to read! And here’s our Week in Review for November 15-21. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 14/11/2025
1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Our newsletter this week asks an increasingly realistic question: are “our” AI systems working against us? And here’s our Week in Review for November 8-14. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 07/11/2025
1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for November 1-7. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 31/10/2025
1/ Happy Halloween from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for Oct 25-31. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 24/10/2025
1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for Oct 18-24. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 17/10/2025
1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for Oct 11-17. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 14/10/2025
SPECIAL REPORT: This past week, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a slew of tech accountability and AI governance bills into law, capping a monthslong drama that gripped Silicon Valley and the broader US digital rights movement. 🐻 Let’s review!
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 10/10/2025
1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for Oct 4-10. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 03/10/2025
1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for Sept 27-Oct 3. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 26/09/2025
1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for Sept 20-26. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 19/09/2025
1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for Sept 13-19. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 12/09/2025
1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for Sept 6-12. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 05/09/2025
1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend – here’s our Week in Review for August 30-Sept 5. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 29/08/2025
1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for August 23-29. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 22/08/2025
1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for August 16-22. This week’s focus: the rise of AI chatbots and personas, and the threats they pose to us, our children, and our civic society. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 15/08/2025
We were also honored to be joined at the Summit by @massgovernor.bsky.social and @repauchincloss.bsky.social as well as Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah, each of whom spoke on how their states are building a brighter digital future for all of us.
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 15/08/2025
After a productive day of conversations, one thing is clear. Utah’s Digital Choice Act, championed by Rep. Doug Fiefia, was just the start of a rising tide of solutions - in red and blue states across America - to the problems of the digital age. www.projectliberty.io/news/utah-di...
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 15/08/2025
Last week, Project Liberty hosted the State Leadership Summit on Digital Choice & The Future of Social Media at the MIT Media Lab. We were joined by a bipartisan group of state lawmakers across 20 states taking action on America’s crisis of digital choice. events.projectliberty.io/state-leader...
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 15/08/2025
2/ Last week, we hosted our State Leadership Summit on Digital Choice and the Future of Social Media at the MIT Media Lab. During a full day of panels, workshops, and convos, dozens of leaders from 20+ states discussed solutions to our current crisis of digital choice.
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 15/08/2025
1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for August 9-15…with a special celebratory post for our recent State Leadership Summit in Boston. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 08/08/2025
1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for Aug 2-8. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 01/08/2025
1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for July 26-Aug 1. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 25/07/2025
1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for July 18-25. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 18/07/2025
1/ Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for July 11-18. Let’s dive in 👇
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 15/07/2025
Last week, the Project Liberty Institute, along with our partners at the Global Solutions Initiative, attended the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 and the AI for Good Summit, both organized by the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/5n89vk89
Project Liberty Institute's Sarah Nicole and government representatives from Senegal. Project Liberty Institute's Sarah Nicole and government representatives from Cambodia. Project Liberty Institute's Sarah Nicole and government representatives from South Africa.
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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 11/07/2025
1/9 Happy Friday from Project Liberty! Here’s our Week in Review for July 3-10. Let’s dive in 👇
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