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Big Tech Accountability Winning on Culture, Data Centers Black-boxed by NDAs
This week in The Dispatch we’re covering early signs that Big Tech AI companies are losing the culture wars, states get gag-ordered into subsidizing data centers.
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This week in The Dispatch we’re covering early signs that Big Tech AI companies are losing the culture wars, states get gag-ordered into subsidizing data centers.
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If we don't see hallmark movies about data centers next holiday season, we riot.
The War on Christmas: Brought to you by Big Tech AI
December 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
If we don't see hallmark movies about data centers next holiday season, we riot.
🪨 Rampant scams on Meta's ad platforms
🪨 Trump's AI EO drawing fire from GOP
🪨 Big Tech's last-minute push to water down the NYS RAISE ACT
All that, and more in this week's edition of The Dispatch.
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🪨 Trump's AI EO drawing fire from GOP
🪨 Big Tech's last-minute push to water down the NYS RAISE ACT
All that, and more in this week's edition of The Dispatch.
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Ending Public Funding for Big Tech AI, GOP Stampede Against Trump's AI EO
This week in The Dispatch, we cover the GOP backlash to the Trump-Sacks AI executive order and a new, forward-looking data center policy proposal
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December 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🪨 Rampant scams on Meta's ad platforms
🪨 Trump's AI EO drawing fire from GOP
🪨 Big Tech's last-minute push to water down the NYS RAISE ACT
All that, and more in this week's edition of The Dispatch.
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🪨 Trump's AI EO drawing fire from GOP
🪨 Big Tech's last-minute push to water down the NYS RAISE ACT
All that, and more in this week's edition of The Dispatch.
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@sachalouise.bsky.social: "Google wines and dines lawmakers for the same reason they are funding Trump’s ballroom: the American people increasingly dislike their products and distrust their leadership, so Google resorts to buying influence."
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Google Bankrolled Secret Summit For Key State Lawmakers
Disclosure documents show the tech giant treated state legislators to a perk-filled Chicago junket this fall; now those officials are considering legislation that could impact Google’s bottom line.
www.levernews.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
@sachalouise.bsky.social: "Google wines and dines lawmakers for the same reason they are funding Trump’s ballroom: the American people increasingly dislike their products and distrust their leadership, so Google resorts to buying influence."
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The War on Christmas: Brought to you by Big Tech AI
December 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The War on Christmas: Brought to you by Big Tech AI
Big Tech whistleblowers are heroes, and the pushback – and in some cases potential bankruptcy – they face for their bravery underscores how far Big Tech CEOs, like Mark Zuckerberg, are willing to go to silence the truth.
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December 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Big Tech whistleblowers are heroes, and the pushback – and in some cases potential bankruptcy – they face for their bravery underscores how far Big Tech CEOs, like Mark Zuckerberg, are willing to go to silence the truth.
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LETTER: Over 150+ NYS parents, including survivor parents, are calling on Governor Hochul to sign the Raise Act as passed by the legislature – underscoring what's at stake.
"Without this commonsense law...young people and their families will be first to bear the consequences."
"Without this commonsense law...young people and their families will be first to bear the consequences."
December 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
LETTER: Over 150+ NYS parents, including survivor parents, are calling on Governor Hochul to sign the Raise Act as passed by the legislature – underscoring what's at stake.
"Without this commonsense law...young people and their families will be first to bear the consequences."
"Without this commonsense law...young people and their families will be first to bear the consequences."
The War on Christmas: Brought to you by Big Tech AI
December 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The War on Christmas: Brought to you by Big Tech AI
@sachalouise.bsky.social: "Google wines and dines lawmakers for the same reason they are funding Trump’s ballroom: the American people increasingly dislike their products and distrust their leadership, so Google resorts to buying influence."
www.levernews.com/google-bank...
www.levernews.com/google-bank...
Google Bankrolled Secret Summit For Key State Lawmakers
Disclosure documents show the tech giant treated state legislators to a perk-filled Chicago junket this fall; now those officials are considering legislation that could impact Google’s bottom line.
www.levernews.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
@sachalouise.bsky.social: "Google wines and dines lawmakers for the same reason they are funding Trump’s ballroom: the American people increasingly dislike their products and distrust their leadership, so Google resorts to buying influence."
www.levernews.com/google-bank...
www.levernews.com/google-bank...
LETTER: Over 150+ NYS parents, including survivor parents, are calling on Governor Hochul to sign the Raise Act as passed by the legislature – underscoring what's at stake.
"Without this commonsense law...young people and their families will be first to bear the consequences."
"Without this commonsense law...young people and their families will be first to bear the consequences."
December 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
LETTER: Over 150+ NYS parents, including survivor parents, are calling on Governor Hochul to sign the Raise Act as passed by the legislature – underscoring what's at stake.
"Without this commonsense law...young people and their families will be first to bear the consequences."
"Without this commonsense law...young people and their families will be first to bear the consequences."
After losing in Congress twice, Big Tech is punishing states protecting people from AI harms.
@sachalouise.bsky.social : The Trump-Sacks EO proves that the WH only listens to powerful Big Tech CEOs who fund ballrooms rather than the everyday people they pretend to serve.
@sachalouise.bsky.social : The Trump-Sacks EO proves that the WH only listens to powerful Big Tech CEOs who fund ballrooms rather than the everyday people they pretend to serve.
Trump signs executive order aimed at preventing states from regulating AI
Order, which lacks the force of law, also creates taskforce whose ‘sole responsibility’ will be challenging states’ AI laws
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
After losing in Congress twice, Big Tech is punishing states protecting people from AI harms.
@sachalouise.bsky.social : The Trump-Sacks EO proves that the WH only listens to powerful Big Tech CEOs who fund ballrooms rather than the everyday people they pretend to serve.
@sachalouise.bsky.social : The Trump-Sacks EO proves that the WH only listens to powerful Big Tech CEOs who fund ballrooms rather than the everyday people they pretend to serve.
Grocery prices are up 25% since 2020 and Instacart is quietly running AI pricing experiments, charging different shoppers up to 23% more than others — for the same products, at the same time, at the same store.
That ain’t right.
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That ain’t right.
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Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ
The findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price is breaking down in the digital age, a trend economists say could be pushing up some prices.
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December 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Grocery prices are up 25% since 2020 and Instacart is quietly running AI pricing experiments, charging different shoppers up to 23% more than others — for the same products, at the same time, at the same store.
That ain’t right.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/...
That ain’t right.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/...
We need AI guardrails so badly. Even tech executives are succumbing to psychosis and committing horrible acts. We cannot afford to give Big Tech AI amnesty.
A former tech executive killed his mother. Her family says ChatGPT made her a target.
A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT encouraged a man’s delusional thinking, leading him to kill his 83-year-old mother and take his own life.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We need AI guardrails so badly. Even tech executives are succumbing to psychosis and committing horrible acts. We cannot afford to give Big Tech AI amnesty.
Our airports, power grids, financial systems, and defense pipelines run on opaque, unregulated AI, which foreign adversaries are already attacking.
Those systems need oversight and guardrails. Trump’s EO makes a bad national security situation even worse.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/...
Those systems need oversight and guardrails. Trump’s EO makes a bad national security situation even worse.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/...
Trump’s AI-Regulation Ban Is a Threat to National Security
The United States should not be lobbied out of protecting its own future.
www.theatlantic.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Our airports, power grids, financial systems, and defense pipelines run on opaque, unregulated AI, which foreign adversaries are already attacking.
Those systems need oversight and guardrails. Trump’s EO makes a bad national security situation even worse.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/...
Those systems need oversight and guardrails. Trump’s EO makes a bad national security situation even worse.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/...
This week in The Dispatch we wrote about a House Energy and Commerce hearing mulling a version of KOSA that’s so watered down, it's opposed by the survivor parents who have championed the legislation.
Meanwhile:
Meanwhile:
December 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This week in The Dispatch we wrote about a House Energy and Commerce hearing mulling a version of KOSA that’s so watered down, it's opposed by the survivor parents who have championed the legislation.
Meanwhile:
Meanwhile:
Newly unsealed Meta court documents show what the company has denied for years: its products harm children, its executives ignored internal warnings, predators and traffickers operated freely on the platform, and Meta misled Congress and the public about what it knew.
December 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Newly unsealed Meta court documents show what the company has denied for years: its products harm children, its executives ignored internal warnings, predators and traffickers operated freely on the platform, and Meta misled Congress and the public about what it knew.
🧾 ICYMI: Another example of Big Tech co-opting the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) to launder their talking points, and whitewash the damage Meta and TikTok products are causing to a generation of children and teens.
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/26/...
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Meta used National PTA to promote child safety efforts, report finds
A report alleges the National PTA's relationship with Meta "gives a sheen of expert approval" to the company's "efforts to keep young users" on its platforms.
www.cnbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
🧾 ICYMI: Another example of Big Tech co-opting the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) to launder their talking points, and whitewash the damage Meta and TikTok products are causing to a generation of children and teens.
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/26/...
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/26/...
This is an illegal workaround that the Trump Admin and the Big Tech AI companies are using because they don't have the votes for AI amnesty in Congress.
This will harm kids, raise prices, and scam hardworking people out of their money.
This will harm kids, raise prices, and scam hardworking people out of their money.
December 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This is an illegal workaround that the Trump Admin and the Big Tech AI companies are using because they don't have the votes for AI amnesty in Congress.
This will harm kids, raise prices, and scam hardworking people out of their money.
This will harm kids, raise prices, and scam hardworking people out of their money.
📬 INBOX ALERT: This week in The Dispatch, we cover Meta’s 17-strike system for sexual predators, the AI super PACs trying to buy Congress, and how White House AI czar David Sacks is shaping an industry he’s invested in hundreds of times over.
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Smoking Gun Meta Docs, the AI Super PAC Preemption Machine
This week in The Dispatch, we’re covering new court documents revealing Meta's 17-strike system for sexual predators and child traffickers, the AI super PACs trying to buy themselves a Congress, and the White House AI czar shaping an industry he’s invested in hundreds of times over.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
📬 INBOX ALERT: This week in The Dispatch, we cover Meta’s 17-strike system for sexual predators, the AI super PACs trying to buy Congress, and how White House AI czar David Sacks is shaping an industry he’s invested in hundreds of times over.
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California may have passed several laws meant to protect children online, but families say there's still a long way to go.
Advocate Julianna Arnold, whose daughter was groomed on Instagram before her death, is gearing up for a renewed push to pass stronger regulations in 2026
Advocate Julianna Arnold, whose daughter was groomed on Instagram before her death, is gearing up for a renewed push to pass stronger regulations in 2026
December 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
California may have passed several laws meant to protect children online, but families say there's still a long way to go.
Advocate Julianna Arnold, whose daughter was groomed on Instagram before her death, is gearing up for a renewed push to pass stronger regulations in 2026
Advocate Julianna Arnold, whose daughter was groomed on Instagram before her death, is gearing up for a renewed push to pass stronger regulations in 2026
If Big Tech CEOs are buying Trump ballrooms, every member of Congress should be demanding to know what, exactly, Big Tech thinks they're getting in exchange
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Democrats question tech giants on Trump ballroom donations, antitrust concerns
Nearly a dozen Democratic lawmakers pressed major tech companies Wednesday on their donations to President Trump’s ballroom, raising concerns about “any potential quid-pro-…
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December 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
If Big Tech CEOs are buying Trump ballrooms, every member of Congress should be demanding to know what, exactly, Big Tech thinks they're getting in exchange
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More AI data-center proposals are stalling after residents point out the obvious — their power bills are spiking as Big Tech demands subsidies. Local opposition is gaining steam as a powerful check on these companies and their outrageous demands.
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
More AI data-center proposals are stalling after residents point out the obvious — their power bills are spiking as Big Tech demands subsidies. Local opposition is gaining steam as a powerful check on these companies and their outrageous demands.
Data centers are already wrecking people’s wallets with sky-high utility bills. Now Oregon families are dealing with miscarriages, kidney loss, rare cancers — all tied to nitrate-tainted water supercharged by Amazon’s cooling demands.
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Amazon Data Center Linked to Cluster of Rare Cancers
A sprawling data center in eastern Oregon has been linked to a huge rise in rare cancers, muscle conditions, and miscarriages.
futurism.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Data centers are already wrecking people’s wallets with sky-high utility bills. Now Oregon families are dealing with miscarriages, kidney loss, rare cancers — all tied to nitrate-tainted water supercharged by Amazon’s cooling demands.
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“The Big Tech AI industry is only interested in one thing: zero laws, zero accountability...that’s why Big Tech CEOs are putting big money behind efforts to repeal and neuter laws at the federal, state, and international levels.” - @sachalouise.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“The Big Tech AI industry is only interested in one thing: zero laws, zero accountability...that’s why Big Tech CEOs are putting big money behind efforts to repeal and neuter laws at the federal, state, and international levels.” - @sachalouise.bsky.social
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in case folks are listening there is a glaring political opportunity in front of us and Democrats would be stupid not to take it up.
but oh by the way you have to name the villain: it's big tech
but oh by the way you have to name the villain: it's big tech
"But after they heard a data center might be built next to their Logos Ranch about 60 miles SW of Atlanta, they had enough of Rs who seemed far too receptive to the interests of the booming AI industry.
“That’s the first time I ever voted Democrat,” Mr. Payton said. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
“That’s the first time I ever voted Democrat,” Mr. Payton said. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
‘The New Price of Eggs.’ The Political Shocks of Data Centers and Electric Bills
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
in case folks are listening there is a glaring political opportunity in front of us and Democrats would be stupid not to take it up.
but oh by the way you have to name the villain: it's big tech
but oh by the way you have to name the villain: it's big tech
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Meta knowingly let millions of adult strangers contact minors.
The same company that allowed its AI to have sexual conversations with children.
The same company behind a super PAC that’s trying to stop states from enacting commonsense safeguards for AI.
The same company that allowed its AI to have sexual conversations with children.
The same company behind a super PAC that’s trying to stop states from enacting commonsense safeguards for AI.
🚨 NEWLY UNSEALED DOCS:
Meta had a 17-STRIKE policy for sexual predators and sex traffickers on its platforms.
Docs also have smoking-gun proof that Meta lied to Congress about correlation between its dangerous products and increased anxiety and depression.
Meta had a 17-STRIKE policy for sexual predators and sex traffickers on its platforms.
Docs also have smoking-gun proof that Meta lied to Congress about correlation between its dangerous products and increased anxiety and depression.
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Meta knowingly let millions of adult strangers contact minors.
The same company that allowed its AI to have sexual conversations with children.
The same company behind a super PAC that’s trying to stop states from enacting commonsense safeguards for AI.
The same company that allowed its AI to have sexual conversations with children.
The same company behind a super PAC that’s trying to stop states from enacting commonsense safeguards for AI.