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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 https://projectliberty.io.
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16/ Thanks for reading – and have a wonderful weekend! 🗽

Read this week’s Project Liberty newsletter on the uneven and unequal adoption of AI across human society: tinyurl.com/mr39e4pr

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95% of Americans know about AI. Only 13% feel in control.
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15/ Days after a Guardian report found that Roblox’s safety features and age-gates failed to keep minors from encountering sexually explicit and violent content, Texas is now suing it for “deceiving parents” over child safety concerns. 🔞

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Texas AG sues Roblox, accusing it of prioritizing 'pixel pedophiles' over child safety | TechCrunch
In a statement, Paxton alleged that Roblox chooses to prioritize "pixel pedophiles" and profit over the safety of children, and said the platform has become a "breeding ground for predators."
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November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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14/ A Reuters report revealed that Meta is making billions of dollars – about 10 percent of total revenue – from scam ads on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, functionally allowing its own users to be tricked and harmed for profit. 💰

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Meta estimates that it earns 10% of its revenue from scams, report says | TechCrunch
These fraudulent ads purport to offer a product or service that isn't actually real, and may be intended to solicit payments from less savvy users.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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13/ Google is settling its yearslong legal fight with Epic Games in its lawsuit against an “illegal monopoly” in the Android app store, after a court recently gave Google a major defeat in one of the year’s biggest antitrust cases. 🧑‍⚖️

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Fortnite maker Epic Games and Google say they're settling 5-year legal fight over Android app store
Epic Games has reached a settlement with Google, potentially ending its five-year legal battle over Google's Play Store for Android apps.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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12/ Singapore’s parliament passed a law giving government authorities more powers to block harmful content on social media platforms including TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook, raising fears of government overreach and censorship. ⛔

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November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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11/ The UK’s online safety official said Big Tech’s social media algorithms will be audited to ensure they don’t show harmful content to children, and that leading AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Character AI may face similar scrutiny. 🖥️

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Effectiveness of age gates for social media algorithms, chatbots next targets in UK | Biometric Update
The algorithms that social media platforms use to determine what is presented to young UK users in their feeds will be subject to auditing under the OSA.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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10/ A joint investigation by European news outlets found the “anonymous” phone location data of at least 3 senior EU officials for sale online by data brokers – revealing where those officials live, work, and travel. 👁️

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EU officials’ location data is for sale, report says
The European Commission recognizes the “worrying conclusions” of the media outlets’ investigation.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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9/ Australia’s online safety agency is facing big pressure from Big Tech ahead of a national social media ban for under-16 users. Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, and now Reddit and Kick are covered under the ban. 📵

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Australian eSafety Commissioner battling suits from Big Tech ahead of Dec 10 | Biometric Update
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page do not appear to faze Commissioner Inman Grant, who has been consistent in her determination to make the law stick.
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8/ A helpful explainer of Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), a new tool that allows users to browse the web without sacrificing their personal data privacy to Google or OpenAI. 🔎

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to MCP: Giving Your AI Web Superpowers - Decrypt
Transform your local AI model into a web-connected research assistant using free MCP servers—no cloud services, complete privacy, and zero cost for most users.
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7/ French prosecutors are investigating TikTok for failing to properly vet and remove content promoting suicide – just weeks after a parliamentary committee issued a damning report on its inadequate moderation and toxic feedback loops. 🎵

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6/ Locket, a private social networking app designed to bring together IRL friends, is picking up steam with Gen Z and Alpha based on a promise of no AI slop content, no infinite scrolls, and no strangers or bots. 👥

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Locket's social app is picking up steam with Gen Alpha | TechCrunch
Locket's social app is using iOS Live Activities to reach Gen Alpha via the iPhone Lock Screen.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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5/ Google removed its Gemma model from its AI Studio after it mistakenly generated fake accusations of sexual assault and corruption against Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) in a past statewide campaign – and even got the election year wrong. ❌

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Google pulls Gemma from AI Studio after Senator Blackburn accuses model of defamation | TechCrunch
Senator Martha Blackburn argued Gemma’s fabrications are “not a harmless ‘hallucination,’" but rather “an act of defamation produced and distributed by a Google-owned AI model.”
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4/ The EU is also exploring how to break up Google’s adtech monopoly after a European court decided that its control over online ad marketplaces violates competition laws – mirroring Google’s other big antitrust case in Virginia. 🧑‍⚖️

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Yes, Brussels really wants Google to be broken up
The U.S. tech giant is on a collision course with EU trustbusters over its digital ad dominance.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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3/ The EU’s woes don’t stop there, as it tries to determine how ChatGPT fits into its Digital Services Act – which is aimed at social media and search giants like Meta, X, and Google, not AI firms with social/search arms like OpenAI. 💶

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The EU can’t figure out what to do about ChatGPT
Sluggishness from regulators on how to handle artificial intelligence chatbot contrasts starkly with boom in use.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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2/ The EU withdrew “Chat Control” – a proposed law to require encrypted messaging apps like Signal and Telegram to let regulators pre-screen texts for illicit/illegal content – after pushback from privacy advocates and tech giants. 💬

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Once Again, Chat Control Flails After Strong Public Pressure
The European Union Council pushed for a dangerous plan to scan encrypted messages, and once again people around the world called out the risks loudly enough that the current Danish presidency has deci...
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15/ Thanks for reading! 🗽

In this week’s newsletter, we spoke with the head of the Center for Humane Technology about the rise of the AI-powered “intimacy economy”: tinyurl.com/4sh3byhx

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AI’s shift to the intimacy economy
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14/ Instagram is testing the ability for users to curate their own feeds by adding and removing specific topics they want to see – a feature already offered by several apps in the fediverse like Mastodon and Bluesky. 🎨

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Fine tune what you see on Instagram.
The platform is testing a way for users to indicate what topics they want to see in content, beginning with Reels. Instagram said previously that this was in the works. The topics appear to be extreme...
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13/ Across the pond, Big Tech’s lobbying spending in Brussels and other European capitals is ballooning, with total spending up over 50% compared to four years ago, as tech giants push the EU to dilute its digital and AI regulations. 🇪🇺

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Big Tech spending on Brussels lobbying hits record high, report claims
The increase comes as pressure on the European Commission from the US administration to change its online platform and AI rules has gone up as well.
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12/ Leading the Future, the AI industry’s top super PAC, will launch Build American AI: a multimillion-dollar ad campaign pushing 2026 midterm candidates to support federal, not state, regulation of AI – and attacking those that don’t. 💰

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AI industry-backed group to spend millions pushing regulation agenda
Build American AI will focus on issue-oriented ads promoting the industry's legislative agenda in Congress and the states.
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11/ Facial recognition tech firm Clearview AI, which has already faced fines totaling €100m from EU data protection agencies, now faces a criminal complaint under the GDPR over its invasive data collection practices in Europe. 🧿

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Clearview AI faces criminal complaint from Austrian NGO over EU data collection | Biometric Update
Biometrics firms fall into two categories: those that seek regulation as an anchor for public trust, and those that run ahead of it to try and reap the rewards.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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10/ OpenAI completed its corporate restructuring, allowing it to raise much more cash but loosening governance and safety rules. 💰

The new arrangement will empower OpenAI’s corporate leaders as it continues operating ChatGPT, Sora, and Atlas.

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OpenAI-Microsoft deal sets up $500B AI powerhouse
Microsoft will get a 27% share in OpenAI.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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9/ Evan Solomon, Canada’s AI minister and a top advisor to PM Mark Carney, said he’s considering including age-check requirements for AI chatbots in the government’s legislative push for online safety and child protection. 🍁

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Canada’s AI minister considering age assurance requirements for chatbots | Biometric Update
The Canadian government has faced questions from people with concerns about how young people are using chatbots like ChatGPT.
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