"Big Tech companies don’t fix their products on their own – they change only when forced to by a jury, court, or legislature. These laws build on the recent AG settlement with Meta, creating lasting protections for kids on all platforms whether they're on social media, using AI, or in the classroom."

Statement from Sacha Haworth, Executive Director of The Tech Oversight Project: “Twenty-nine attorneys general dragged Meta into court and forced it to protect our kids — overnight shutoffs, daily limits our kids can’t loosen without a parent, and an independent monitor watching Meta’s books for a decade. Meta must now pay over $12 billion to […]

This Navigator Research report covers battleground feelings on tech policy and social media companies.

PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL: this is a jump ball. unsurprisingly, voters think their party is better than the other guys but if you look at the persuadable ballot .. it's anyone's game. once again this is a MASSIVE POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY for Dems and anyone who says

As the COMPETE Act heads to a key vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Tech Oversight California is calling on lawmakers to advance the landmark anti-monopoly bill, which would stop the state's largest corporations from crushing competitors before they can get off the ground, over a coordinated, big-money campaign to kill it.

Industry lobbyists have swarmed the Golden State to block new anti-monopoly reforms ahead of a vote this week.

Apropos the make or break vote on the COMPETE Act, happening this morning, the antitrust private right of action is critical. Antitrust enforcement cannot devolve into a budget fight for public enforcement. It is a political threat that will allow monopolies to flourish.

Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley has agreed to let the heads of the tech giants’ Instagram and YouTube brands testify in the chief executives’ place at a hearing tentatively set for next month, according to four people with knowledge of the matter.

A former Meta executive whose memoir, “Careless People,” provides an explosive insider account of her time at the social media giant, has sued the company for attempting to “silence” her.

The tools track 17 Big Tech-funded super PACs that have spent over $65 million influencing federal and state elections across the country Findings show leading AI super PAC spending 2-to-1 against Democrats at federal level WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project launched first-of-its-kind public-access tools to document the out-of-control influence from AI super […]

Competing AI interests poured millions into the Democratic primary, a taste of more spending to come this fall and elections beyond.

Executives from OpenAI, Palantir, and a16z are pouring hundreds of millions into AI super PACs. Their goal? Buy the Politicians. Control the Future of AI.

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence firm that birthed ChatGPT, is struggling to distance itself from pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future and its Silicon Valley backers as the industry faces backlas…

The Tech Oversight Project today applauded the New York State Legislature’s unanimous final passage of the nation-leading youth chatbot safety bill (S.9051/A.10379), sponsored by State Senator Kristen Gonzalez and Assemblymember Alex Bores and developed in cooperation with Attorney General Letitia James. “In a year when Big Tech killed or gutted chatbot safety bills in state […]

The donor list includes several billionaires who have looked to curry favor with the Trump administration.

Results showed a wide majority of Obernolte and Trahan’s respective constituents oppose efforts to weaken AI catastrophic risk protection and water down chatbot safety laws View the CA-23 results here...

OpenAI’s products endanger public safety; Congress must act The Tech Oversight Project called on Congress to act after the new revelation that OpenAI’s ChatGPT advised the culprit in the deadly Florida State University attack that a mass shooting would get more attention from the media if it involved several children. “While Congress should continue quickly […]

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/openai-sued-chatgpts-alleged-role-guiding-fsu-shooter-rcna344443

The OpenAI Files is the most comprehensive collection to date of documented concerns with governance practices, leadership integrity, and organizational culture at OpenAI.

This week in The Dispatch: Big Tech's lobbying machine hits $200K a day; the Sacramento money flood; Zuckerberg cries poor; and parents take the fight to Congress.

This week in The Dispatch: Big Tech's lobbying machine hits $200K a day; the Sacramento money flood; Zuckerberg cries poor; and parents take the fight to Congress.

Watchdogs, Children’s Online Safety Groups call out Leading the Future’s Trump connections and dangers to children and teens onlineWashington, D.C. – Today, The Tech Oversight Project, alongside 13 ch...