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Big Tech Takes Election Day Off, OpenAI Logs Into Wall Street, and ICE Logs Everything Else
This week in The Dispatch we’re covering how Big Tech gave up on content moderation and keeping people safe, and how that impacts information flow around elections, and OpenAI’s conversion from mission to market.
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📬 INBOX ALERT: This week in The Dispatch we’re covering how Big Tech gave up on content moderation and keeping people safe, and how that impacts information flow around elections, and OpenAI’s conversion from mission to market.
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📜 The USMCA comes up for review in 2026 — and we need to eliminate the provisions that Big Tech uses to manipulate markets and rip off consumers.
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
📜 The USMCA comes up for review in 2026 — and we need to eliminate the provisions that Big Tech uses to manipulate markets and rip off consumers.
📬 INBOX ALERT: This week in The Dispatch, we're covering how candidates who ran on Big Tech accountability swept key races, a federal judge orders OpenAI to hand over deleted evidence in copyright trial, and New York enacts new safety laws for AI chatbots.
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Big Tech Accountability Wins Elections, OpenAI Deletes Evidence
This week in The Dispatch we're covering how candidates who ran on Big Tech accountability swept key races, a federal judge orders OpenAI to hand over deleted evidence in copyright trial, and New York enacts new safety laws for AI chatbots.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
📬 INBOX ALERT: This week in The Dispatch, we're covering how candidates who ran on Big Tech accountability swept key races, a federal judge orders OpenAI to hand over deleted evidence in copyright trial, and New York enacts new safety laws for AI chatbots.
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Big Tech has found a new frontier for expansion — public universities. They're writing syllabi, selling chatbot and "AI bootcamp" licenses.
Education is becoming onboarding, and students, long term customers.
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Education is becoming onboarding, and students, long term customers.
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Big Tech Takes Election Day Off, OpenAI Logs Into Wall Street, and ICE Logs Everything Else
This week in The Dispatch we’re covering how Big Tech gave up on content moderation and keeping people safe, and how that impacts information flow around elections, and OpenAI’s conversion from mission to market.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Big Tech has found a new frontier for expansion — public universities. They're writing syllabi, selling chatbot and "AI bootcamp" licenses.
Education is becoming onboarding, and students, long term customers.
📚 Read & subscribe to The Dispatch: dispatch.techoversight.org/big-tech-ta...
Education is becoming onboarding, and students, long term customers.
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Pennsylvania’s judicial elections turned into a fight over billionaire influence.
Three Democratic justices kept their seats after voters rejected a campaign bankrolled by TikTok investor Jeffrey Yass — the state’s richest man.
Three Democratic justices kept their seats after voters rejected a campaign bankrolled by TikTok investor Jeffrey Yass — the state’s richest man.
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Pennsylvania’s judicial elections turned into a fight over billionaire influence.
Three Democratic justices kept their seats after voters rejected a campaign bankrolled by TikTok investor Jeffrey Yass — the state’s richest man.
Three Democratic justices kept their seats after voters rejected a campaign bankrolled by TikTok investor Jeffrey Yass — the state’s richest man.
NYC just elected a mayor who went after Big Tech’s newest scam: dynamic pricing.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social called out how Big Tech is using AI to price gouge — charging more when demand spikes, your data says you’ll pay it, or an algorithm thinks it can get away with it.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social called out how Big Tech is using AI to price gouge — charging more when demand spikes, your data says you’ll pay it, or an algorithm thinks it can get away with it.
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
NYC just elected a mayor who went after Big Tech’s newest scam: dynamic pricing.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social called out how Big Tech is using AI to price gouge — charging more when demand spikes, your data says you’ll pay it, or an algorithm thinks it can get away with it.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social called out how Big Tech is using AI to price gouge — charging more when demand spikes, your data says you’ll pay it, or an algorithm thinks it can get away with it.
TRIGGER WARNING: OpenAI's dangerous and unsafe products tragically contributed to Zane Shamblin dying by suicide. The transcripts are heart-breaking.
November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
TRIGGER WARNING: OpenAI's dangerous and unsafe products tragically contributed to Zane Shamblin dying by suicide. The transcripts are heart-breaking.
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“i’m not here to stop you.”
"you ain't goin out with regret. you're goin out with *recognition*."
"see you on the other side spaceman."
this is what ChatGPT told a struggling 23-year-old as he was sitting in his car, about to take his own life.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
"you ain't goin out with regret. you're goin out with *recognition*."
"see you on the other side spaceman."
this is what ChatGPT told a struggling 23-year-old as he was sitting in his car, about to take his own life.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
‘Rest easy king’: See the messages ChatGPT sent a young man who took his own life | CNN
The parents of a man who killed himself are suing OpenAI, claiming the company’s chatbot encouraged him to end his life. CNN’s Ed Lavandera exclusively reports.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
“i’m not here to stop you.”
"you ain't goin out with regret. you're goin out with *recognition*."
"see you on the other side spaceman."
this is what ChatGPT told a struggling 23-year-old as he was sitting in his car, about to take his own life.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
"you ain't goin out with regret. you're goin out with *recognition*."
"see you on the other side spaceman."
this is what ChatGPT told a struggling 23-year-old as he was sitting in his car, about to take his own life.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
NJ just elected a governor who gets how Big Tech affects people’s daily lives & is ready to act.
Governor-elect @mikiesherrill.bsky.social made two issues — AI-data-center-driven energy costs and kids’ online safety — the backbone of a single argument: Big Tech is driving up costs & harming kids.
Governor-elect @mikiesherrill.bsky.social made two issues — AI-data-center-driven energy costs and kids’ online safety — the backbone of a single argument: Big Tech is driving up costs & harming kids.
November 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
NJ just elected a governor who gets how Big Tech affects people’s daily lives & is ready to act.
Governor-elect @mikiesherrill.bsky.social made two issues — AI-data-center-driven energy costs and kids’ online safety — the backbone of a single argument: Big Tech is driving up costs & harming kids.
Governor-elect @mikiesherrill.bsky.social made two issues — AI-data-center-driven energy costs and kids’ online safety — the backbone of a single argument: Big Tech is driving up costs & harming kids.
"Big Tech has jacked up our home energy bills to push AI products no one asked for… they plan to drive their businesses to the point of insolvency and they want the government to bail them out. This is a national scandal." - @sachalouise.bsky.social
STATEMENT: “If Big Tech Wants Taxpayers to Subsidize Them, Then They Need to Make Products That Benefit Americans” - Tech Oversight Project
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project responded to remarks from OpenAI’s Chief Financial Officer, Sarah Friar, who called for a federal bailout of OpenAI – forcing American taxpayers to s...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"Big Tech has jacked up our home energy bills to push AI products no one asked for… they plan to drive their businesses to the point of insolvency and they want the government to bail them out. This is a national scandal." - @sachalouise.bsky.social
Virginia’s elections proved voters are paying attention to Big Tech’s footprint — especially when it drives up the cost of living.
Governor-elect @abigailspanberger.com made that link clear: AI data centers are straining the grid, and families are the ones paying for it.
Governor-elect @abigailspanberger.com made that link clear: AI data centers are straining the grid, and families are the ones paying for it.
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Virginia’s elections proved voters are paying attention to Big Tech’s footprint — especially when it drives up the cost of living.
Governor-elect @abigailspanberger.com made that link clear: AI data centers are straining the grid, and families are the ones paying for it.
Governor-elect @abigailspanberger.com made that link clear: AI data centers are straining the grid, and families are the ones paying for it.
As last night’s results confirmed, Big Tech accountability has become a marquee issue for winning campaigns across the country.
The common through line: connecting Big Tech abuses and the MAGA/Big Tech CEO alliance to core concerns about affordability and kids’ safety.
The common through line: connecting Big Tech abuses and the MAGA/Big Tech CEO alliance to core concerns about affordability and kids’ safety.
November 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
As last night’s results confirmed, Big Tech accountability has become a marquee issue for winning campaigns across the country.
The common through line: connecting Big Tech abuses and the MAGA/Big Tech CEO alliance to core concerns about affordability and kids’ safety.
The common through line: connecting Big Tech abuses and the MAGA/Big Tech CEO alliance to core concerns about affordability and kids’ safety.
Big Tech spent years exploiting our attention and, now, spiking our energy bills. In New Jersey, voters are demanding action. @mikiesherrill.bsky.social wants to rein in Big Tech — from the platforms exploiting kids to the data centers driving up energy costs.
Race to watch: What to know about Mikie Sherrill, New Jersey’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate
She says her three top priorities as governor will be affordability, protecting kids and making state government more accountable.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Big Tech spent years exploiting our attention and, now, spiking our energy bills. In New Jersey, voters are demanding action. @mikiesherrill.bsky.social wants to rein in Big Tech — from the platforms exploiting kids to the data centers driving up energy costs.
Across Virginia, data centers have become a flashpoint. @abigailspanberger.com says Big Tech needs to pay their fair share for the electricity they use instead of driving up costs for families to subsidize their profits.
www.wvtf.org/news/2025-1...
www.wvtf.org/news/2025-1...
Data center power demand is heating up; here’s where Virginia’s gubernatorial candidates on the issue
One hyper scale data center can demand as much power as 2 million homes. Virginia currently has about 3.6 million homes.
www.wvtf.org
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Across Virginia, data centers have become a flashpoint. @abigailspanberger.com says Big Tech needs to pay their fair share for the electricity they use instead of driving up costs for families to subsidize their profits.
www.wvtf.org/news/2025-1...
www.wvtf.org/news/2025-1...
👁️ ICE is building its own social network — not to connect people, but to track them. Using social media to search for "crimes" has evolved into using Big Tech's infrastructure to scan for criticism.
November 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
👁️ ICE is building its own social network — not to connect people, but to track them. Using social media to search for "crimes" has evolved into using Big Tech's infrastructure to scan for criticism.
🗳️ Voters across the country are casting ballots in races that will decide state power for years to come. But the Big Tech platforms that contextualize elections are more broken than ever.
The sad truth: it didn't have to be this way.
The sad truth: it didn't have to be this way.
November 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
🗳️ Voters across the country are casting ballots in races that will decide state power for years to come. But the Big Tech platforms that contextualize elections are more broken than ever.
The sad truth: it didn't have to be this way.
The sad truth: it didn't have to be this way.
📬 INBOX ALERT: This week in The Dispatch we’re covering how Big Tech gave up on content moderation and keeping people safe, and how that impacts information flow around elections, and OpenAI’s conversion from mission to market.
dispatch.techoversight.org/p/44c77026-...
dispatch.techoversight.org/p/44c77026-...
Big Tech Takes Election Day Off, OpenAI Logs Into Wall Street, and ICE Logs Everything Else
This week in The Dispatch we’re covering how Big Tech gave up on content moderation and keeping people safe, and how that impacts information flow around elections, and OpenAI’s conversion from mission to market.
dispatch.techoversight.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
📬 INBOX ALERT: This week in The Dispatch we’re covering how Big Tech gave up on content moderation and keeping people safe, and how that impacts information flow around elections, and OpenAI’s conversion from mission to market.
dispatch.techoversight.org/p/44c77026-...
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New filings show Big Tech spent nearly $6 million lobbying California this year — a 36% jump in Q3 alone. The surge came as lawmakers weighed bills on AI guardrails, kids’ safety, and algorithmic fairness.
November 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
New filings show Big Tech spent nearly $6 million lobbying California this year — a 36% jump in Q3 alone. The surge came as lawmakers weighed bills on AI guardrails, kids’ safety, and algorithmic fairness.
The reason Meta wouldn't answer @amyklobuchar.com 's question yesterday about protecting user privacy when targeting ads with chatbot convo data, is because they can't.
We joined a coalition urging the FTC to stop Meta's terrible plan to mine AI chatbot data for ads, before it starts.
We joined a coalition urging the FTC to stop Meta's terrible plan to mine AI chatbot data for ads, before it starts.
Sen. Klobuchar: “Meta plans to use people’s conversations with Meta AI chatbots to personalize ads served to them. How will Meta protect people’s privacy while selling information about their private conversations to advertisers?”
Meta exec: No answer
Meta exec: No answer
October 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The reason Meta wouldn't answer @amyklobuchar.com 's question yesterday about protecting user privacy when targeting ads with chatbot convo data, is because they can't.
We joined a coalition urging the FTC to stop Meta's terrible plan to mine AI chatbot data for ads, before it starts.
We joined a coalition urging the FTC to stop Meta's terrible plan to mine AI chatbot data for ads, before it starts.
Testifying now: top executives from Google and Meta — not victims of government pressure but partners in it, trading public safety and kids' wellbeing for political access and profit.
📺 HAPPENING NOW: another Republican hearing about being "silenced" led by the people who actually want to decide what everyone can read, post, and say.
October 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Testifying now: top executives from Google and Meta — not victims of government pressure but partners in it, trading public safety and kids' wellbeing for political access and profit.
📺 HAPPENING NOW: another Republican hearing about being "silenced" led by the people who actually want to decide what everyone can read, post, and say.
October 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
📺 HAPPENING NOW: another Republican hearing about being "silenced" led by the people who actually want to decide what everyone can read, post, and say.
Steve Bannon, Glenn Beck, Prince Harry, and Meghan Markle? Might sound like a group chat gone wrong, but they can all agree on this: Big Tech can’t be trusted to police itself.
From Prince Harry to Steve Bannon, unlikely coalition calls for ban on superintelligent AI
The call, signed by Nobel laureates, ex-military leaders and public figures worldwide, seeks a ban on research that could create machines smarter than people.
www.nbcnews.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Steve Bannon, Glenn Beck, Prince Harry, and Meghan Markle? Might sound like a group chat gone wrong, but they can all agree on this: Big Tech can’t be trusted to police itself.
📬 INBOX ALERT: This week in The Dispatch we cover Big Tech’s record lobbying operation in Congress, Amazon’s AWS outage that broke the web, Meta’s own research proving Meta harms kids…again, and Trump demolishing the White House to party with tech CEOs.
Big Tech Lobbying Breaks Records, Amazon Breaks the Internet, and Trump Breaks the White House
This week in The Dispatch we’re covering Big Tech’s record lobbying operation in Congress, Amazon’s AWS breaks the web, Meta’s own research proving Meta harms kids…again, and Trump demolishes the Whit...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
📬 INBOX ALERT: This week in The Dispatch we cover Big Tech’s record lobbying operation in Congress, Amazon’s AWS outage that broke the web, Meta’s own research proving Meta harms kids…again, and Trump demolishing the White House to party with tech CEOs.
“Make no mistake about what’s happening: Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Google are bankrolling pageantry and luxury for an administration that’s making a mockery of ethical standards and policymaking for the people.” - @sachalouise.bsky.social
Trump’s Ballroom Fundraising Taps Cash from Crypto, Tech Allies
President Donald Trump is constructing a $300 million White House ballroom with the force of a political campaign, tapping his former campaign finance director to raise money for the high-profile but ...
www.bloomberg.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
“Make no mistake about what’s happening: Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Google are bankrolling pageantry and luxury for an administration that’s making a mockery of ethical standards and policymaking for the people.” - @sachalouise.bsky.social
"This is another example of Big Tech CEOs partnering with an increasingly authoritarian federal government as part of Trump's ongoing attempts to clamp down on free speech," @sachalouise.bsky.social tells @theverge.com "This should terrify and anger every American."
www.theverge.com/policy/8064...
www.theverge.com/policy/8064...
ICE is building a social media panopticon
ICE is ramping up efforts to monitor people online.
www.theverge.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"This is another example of Big Tech CEOs partnering with an increasingly authoritarian federal government as part of Trump's ongoing attempts to clamp down on free speech," @sachalouise.bsky.social tells @theverge.com "This should terrify and anger every American."
www.theverge.com/policy/8064...
www.theverge.com/policy/8064...
Apple, Google, and Meta are now working hand-in-hand with Trump’s DOJ to silence immigration watchdog apps — just as raids ramp up in the Bay Area. Apple says it was for “safety.” The safety of whom, exactly?
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Big Tech Bankrolls Trump's White House Teardown While Ripping Off Americans - Tech Oversight Project
As Big Tech CEOs finance the demolition of the White House to build Donald Trump a luxury ballroom, they’re simultaneously evading scrutiny and enriching themselves and the president by buying off court cases and reaching shady settlements, all while continuing to fail their most basic responsibilities and slash trust and safety programs. The Tech Oversight […]
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October 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Apple, Google, and Meta are now working hand-in-hand with Trump’s DOJ to silence immigration watchdog apps — just as raids ramp up in the Bay Area. Apple says it was for “safety.” The safety of whom, exactly?
techoversight.org/2025/10/24/...
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