Courtney R
@courtneyr.bsky.social
AI governance. Tech. Media. Political economy. Human rights. Director, Center for Journalism & Liberty cjl4news.bsky.social ar Open Markets. Fellow at Brookings, CIGI, CDT, MRC. Former CPJ, UNESCO
Did FoloToy seriously think that integrating ChatGPT, a product linked to several suicides and which has so many safety issues that you can't fit them in a single tweet (post?), was a good idea? And OpenAI of course didn't stop it. mashable.com/article/chat...
The ChatGPT-powered teddy bear is officially on ice
Probably for the best.
mashable.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Did FoloToy seriously think that integrating ChatGPT, a product linked to several suicides and which has so many safety issues that you can't fit them in a single tweet (post?), was a good idea? And OpenAI of course didn't stop it. mashable.com/article/chat...
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We had a great discussion with @courtneyr.bsky.social on "Big Tech + Big Brother: Resisting ‘techno-fascism’ and the surveillance state" at the @globalfreemedia.bsky.social World Congress & Media Innovation Festival in Vienna on October 25.
Credit © Ronja Koskinen / IPI
Credit © Ronja Koskinen / IPI
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We had a great discussion with @courtneyr.bsky.social on "Big Tech + Big Brother: Resisting ‘techno-fascism’ and the surveillance state" at the @globalfreemedia.bsky.social World Congress & Media Innovation Festival in Vienna on October 25.
Credit © Ronja Koskinen / IPI
Credit © Ronja Koskinen / IPI
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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For more check out a new policy brief authored by my colleague @courtneyr.bsky.social and me on why platform monopolies – not EU regulation – are the real threat to freedom of speech.
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
New Policy Brief Warns: U.S. “Free Speech” Attacks Threaten Europe’s Sovereignty and Democracy — Open Markets Institute
CJL director Dr. Courtney Radsch and Europe director Max von Thun author a brief arguing that dominant U.S. platforms such as Google, Meta and X wield unprecedented power to manipulate pol...
www.openmarketsinstitute.org
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
For more check out a new policy brief authored by my colleague @courtneyr.bsky.social and me on why platform monopolies – not EU regulation – are the real threat to freedom of speech.
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
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We welcome the release of the crucial OSCE report "Safeguarding Media Freedom in the Age of Big Tech Platforms and AI" and are thrilled it recommends several reforms championed by our Center for Journalism & Liberty.
Full statement from center director @courtneyr.bsky.social:
Full statement from center director @courtneyr.bsky.social:
October 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
We welcome the release of the crucial OSCE report "Safeguarding Media Freedom in the Age of Big Tech Platforms and AI" and are thrilled it recommends several reforms championed by our Center for Journalism & Liberty.
Full statement from center director @courtneyr.bsky.social:
Full statement from center director @courtneyr.bsky.social:
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Ireland has appointed a Data Protection Commissioner who formerly held a senior public affairs role at Meta – disregarding EU law & treaties.
The govt must conduct a new, transparent process to appoint an official with a strong record of protecting human rights.
www.article19.org/resources/ir...
The govt must conduct a new, transparent process to appoint an official with a strong record of protecting human rights.
www.article19.org/resources/ir...
Ireland: Adopt new, transparent process to appoint Data Protection Commissioner - ARTICLE 19
Data Protection Commissioner has responsibility as lead supervisory authority for many of the world’s largest technology companies.
www.article19.org
October 23, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Ireland has appointed a Data Protection Commissioner who formerly held a senior public affairs role at Meta – disregarding EU law & treaties.
The govt must conduct a new, transparent process to appoint an official with a strong record of protecting human rights.
www.article19.org/resources/ir...
The govt must conduct a new, transparent process to appoint an official with a strong record of protecting human rights.
www.article19.org/resources/ir...
Defenders of a rules-based intl order must “recognize that Big Tech’s anti-regulatory agenda will outlast the Trump Admin so long as trade policy remains a mechanism through which the US and others can restrict governments’ tech policy choices” @astienon.bsky.social
techpolicy.press/how-europe-c...
techpolicy.press/how-europe-c...
How Europe Can Expand Digital Trade to Challenge Big Tech’s Anti-Regulatory Push | TechPolicy.Press
European leaders must take the lead in imposing checks on Big Tech, and by extension, the US chokehold over the global digital economy, writes
Audrey Stienon.
techpolicy.press
October 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Defenders of a rules-based intl order must “recognize that Big Tech’s anti-regulatory agenda will outlast the Trump Admin so long as trade policy remains a mechanism through which the US and others can restrict governments’ tech policy choices” @astienon.bsky.social
techpolicy.press/how-europe-c...
techpolicy.press/how-europe-c...
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"[The platforms] are not neutral hosts; they are political actors with extraordinary power to distort the public sphere and undermine democracy in the United States and around the world."
Read @courtneyr.bsky.social on Europe's fight against Big Tech: www.techpolicy.press/why-europes-...
Read @courtneyr.bsky.social on Europe's fight against Big Tech: www.techpolicy.press/why-europes-...
Why Europe’s Resistance to Big Tech Matters for the Future of Democracy | TechPolicy.Press
We are witnessing the fusion of corporate and state power take institutional form, writes Courtney C. Radsch.
www.techpolicy.press
October 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"[The platforms] are not neutral hosts; they are political actors with extraordinary power to distort the public sphere and undermine democracy in the United States and around the world."
Read @courtneyr.bsky.social on Europe's fight against Big Tech: www.techpolicy.press/why-europes-...
Read @courtneyr.bsky.social on Europe's fight against Big Tech: www.techpolicy.press/why-europes-...
Yet another reason why local
News is more trusted than national news, which failed to fairly & accurately cover the mass mobilization for No Kings while often granting outsized coverage to fringe white nationalist & Tea Party protests. Same as when I worked at @nytimes.com during Iraq war protests
News is more trusted than national news, which failed to fairly & accurately cover the mass mobilization for No Kings while often granting outsized coverage to fringe white nationalist & Tea Party protests. Same as when I worked at @nytimes.com during Iraq war protests
I scrolled through the @1stforall.bsky.social's gallery of print front pages for local coverage of "No Kings" protests. Here are some of the standout papers, starting with the Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, Colorado:
October 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Yet another reason why local
News is more trusted than national news, which failed to fairly & accurately cover the mass mobilization for No Kings while often granting outsized coverage to fringe white nationalist & Tea Party protests. Same as when I worked at @nytimes.com during Iraq war protests
News is more trusted than national news, which failed to fairly & accurately cover the mass mobilization for No Kings while often granting outsized coverage to fringe white nationalist & Tea Party protests. Same as when I worked at @nytimes.com during Iraq war protests
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Media is an ecosystem and journalism is its keystone species. Whatever you think of journalists, the system collapses without them. This and more from @courtneyr.bsky.social of @openmarkets.bsky.social on the latest episode of In Reality.
Information is an Ecosystem. Without Journalism, It Collapses - In Reality podcast
Eric Schurenberg is joined by information 'ecosystem' thought-leader Courtney Radsch discussing the vital role of journalism even today!
www.in-reality.fm
October 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Media is an ecosystem and journalism is its keystone species. Whatever you think of journalists, the system collapses without them. This and more from @courtneyr.bsky.social of @openmarkets.bsky.social on the latest episode of In Reality.
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Day 2 of our Future of Democracy with
@openmarkets.bsky.social!
Follow along to hear from Nobel Peace Prize winner @mariaressa.bsky.social, @alexandrageese.bsky.social, Mira Milosevic, @dimi.wikimedia.brussels, @courtneyr.bsky.social + ARTICLE 19's Quinn McKew
www.youtube.com/live/vZTwYPS...
@openmarkets.bsky.social!
Follow along to hear from Nobel Peace Prize winner @mariaressa.bsky.social, @alexandrageese.bsky.social, Mira Milosevic, @dimi.wikimedia.brussels, @courtneyr.bsky.social + ARTICLE 19's Quinn McKew
www.youtube.com/live/vZTwYPS...
October 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Day 2 of our Future of Democracy with
@openmarkets.bsky.social!
Follow along to hear from Nobel Peace Prize winner @mariaressa.bsky.social, @alexandrageese.bsky.social, Mira Milosevic, @dimi.wikimedia.brussels, @courtneyr.bsky.social + ARTICLE 19's Quinn McKew
www.youtube.com/live/vZTwYPS...
@openmarkets.bsky.social!
Follow along to hear from Nobel Peace Prize winner @mariaressa.bsky.social, @alexandrageese.bsky.social, Mira Milosevic, @dimi.wikimedia.brussels, @courtneyr.bsky.social + ARTICLE 19's Quinn McKew
www.youtube.com/live/vZTwYPS...
No matter how many times I hear @mariaressa.bsky.social talk about her experience, her work, her analysis of manipulation and influence operations conducted on
& by #BigTech platforms, I’m inspired to keep fighting against concentration of power in our info ecosystem & for pro-democracy alternative
& by #BigTech platforms, I’m inspired to keep fighting against concentration of power in our info ecosystem & for pro-democracy alternative
October 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
No matter how many times I hear @mariaressa.bsky.social talk about her experience, her work, her analysis of manipulation and influence operations conducted on
& by #BigTech platforms, I’m inspired to keep fighting against concentration of power in our info ecosystem & for pro-democracy alternative
& by #BigTech platforms, I’m inspired to keep fighting against concentration of power in our info ecosystem & for pro-democracy alternative
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With this year’s California legislative session officially in the rearview mirror, it’s time to take stock of what bills related to tech policy made it through the lobbying gauntlet and over Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Jasmine Mithani.
What Tech Bills California Governor Newsom Signed Or Vetoed in 2025 | TechPolicy.Press
It’s time to take stock of what bills related to tech policy made it through the lobbying gauntlet in Sacramento, writes Jasmine Mithani.
www.techpolicy.press
October 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
With this year’s California legislative session officially in the rearview mirror, it’s time to take stock of what bills related to tech policy made it through the lobbying gauntlet and over Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Jasmine Mithani.
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Great panel to discuss policies to protect online expression: Labour MP @chionwurah.bsky.social, @alemanno.bsky.social, Thomas Hughes at Appeals Centre Europe, and @corneliawoll.bsky.social at Hertie School Berlin, in conversation with @maxvonthun.bsky.social
▶️ www.youtube.com/live/KlO8ta8...
▶️ www.youtube.com/live/KlO8ta8...
The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI
YouTube video by Open Markets Institute
www.youtube.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Great panel to discuss policies to protect online expression: Labour MP @chionwurah.bsky.social, @alemanno.bsky.social, Thomas Hughes at Appeals Centre Europe, and @corneliawoll.bsky.social at Hertie School Berlin, in conversation with @maxvonthun.bsky.social
▶️ www.youtube.com/live/KlO8ta8...
▶️ www.youtube.com/live/KlO8ta8...
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Hard to decide if Google’s next antitrust battle will be YouTube or Chrome or Gemini. This is good arg for YT.
Spotify & Netflix Gun for YouTube's Eyeballs
The video podcast partnership may portend a bundle...
Spotify & Netflix Gun for YouTube's Eyeballs
The video podcast partnership may portend a bundle...
October 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Hard to decide if Google’s next antitrust battle will be YouTube or Chrome or Gemini. This is good arg for YT.
Spotify & Netflix Gun for YouTube's Eyeballs
The video podcast partnership may portend a bundle...
Spotify & Netflix Gun for YouTube's Eyeballs
The video podcast partnership may portend a bundle...
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If someone has to give it to you for you to have it then it’s not a right.
"Musk and Zuckerberg claim to give people freedom of speech, but they own it." — @alexandrageese.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 8:35 AM
If someone has to give it to you for you to have it then it’s not a right.
Platform Power, Free Speech, and Political Interference: Defending Europe’s Digital Sovereignty, a new policy brief by me and my @openmarkets.bsky.social colleague @maxvonthun.bsky.social is out today
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
New Policy Brief Warns: U.S. “Free Speech” Attacks Threaten Europe’s Sovereignty and Democracy — Open Markets Institute
CJL director Dr. Courtney Radsch and Europe director Max von Thun author a brief arguing that dominant U.S. platforms such as Google, Meta and X wield unprecedented power to manipulate pol...
www.openmarketsinstitute.org
October 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Platform Power, Free Speech, and Political Interference: Defending Europe’s Digital Sovereignty, a new policy brief by me and my @openmarkets.bsky.social colleague @maxvonthun.bsky.social is out today
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
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Now on stage: Our first panel with David Kaye, Former UN Special Rapporteur @davidakaye.bsky.social, Sasha Havlicek at @isdglobal.org, and MEP Alexandra Geese @alexandrageese.bsky.social. Moderated by @courtneyr.bsky.social at @cjl4news.bsky.social.
Tune in here: www.youtube.com/live/KlO8ta8...
Tune in here: www.youtube.com/live/KlO8ta8...
October 15, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Now on stage: Our first panel with David Kaye, Former UN Special Rapporteur @davidakaye.bsky.social, Sasha Havlicek at @isdglobal.org, and MEP Alexandra Geese @alexandrageese.bsky.social. Moderated by @courtneyr.bsky.social at @cjl4news.bsky.social.
Tune in here: www.youtube.com/live/KlO8ta8...
Tune in here: www.youtube.com/live/KlO8ta8...
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History repeats.
October 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
History repeats.
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Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
October 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
In addition to censorship, the Trump Administration is speaking FOR people. Partisan Language Inserted Into Education Dept. Workers’ Automated Emails blaming Democrat Senators for government shutdown www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Partisan Language Inserted Into Education Dept. Workers’ Automated Emails
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
In addition to censorship, the Trump Administration is speaking FOR people. Partisan Language Inserted Into Education Dept. Workers’ Automated Emails blaming Democrat Senators for government shutdown www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Apple Takes Down ICE Tracking Apps in response to Trump Pressure Campaign in yet another attack on #freespeech. I’m deeply disappointed to see yet another corporation cave without resisting. This censorship is particularly problematic given its App Store monopoly.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Apple Takes Down ICE Tracking Apps Amid Trump Pressure Campaign
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Apple Takes Down ICE Tracking Apps in response to Trump Pressure Campaign in yet another attack on #freespeech. I’m deeply disappointed to see yet another corporation cave without resisting. This censorship is particularly problematic given its App Store monopoly.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
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The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
Amid threats to EU sovereignty & digital regulation, what was the EU ambassador to the US’ message to #BigTech? “We love you” & “We will continue to love you” & Europe has more Google search users than we have citizens. No mention of its illegal monopoly, censorial threats against trade & DST. #fail
September 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Amid threats to EU sovereignty & digital regulation, what was the EU ambassador to the US’ message to #BigTech? “We love you” & “We will continue to love you” & Europe has more Google search users than we have citizens. No mention of its illegal monopoly, censorial threats against trade & DST. #fail
I wish I were subscribed to @disneyplus and @hulu so I could unsubscribe
Tatiana Maslany posted an image on Instagram “with text overlaid that says “cancel your @disneyplus @hulu @espn subscriptions!”
Marisa Tomei, who played Aunt May in Spider-Man movies distributed by Sony & Avengers movies from Disney, reposted a call to “unsubscribe and boycott” Disney platforms.”
Marisa Tomei, who played Aunt May in Spider-Man movies distributed by Sony & Avengers movies from Disney, reposted a call to “unsubscribe and boycott” Disney platforms.”
Even Disney stars are joining calls to boycott the media giant after ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel's show | Fortune
The internet was already lighting up with users sharing screenshots of canceled subscriptions to Disney-owned streaming services or canceled vacations at Disney properties.
fortune.com
September 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I wish I were subscribed to @disneyplus and @hulu so I could unsubscribe