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ROUNDUP: Plot to Thwart State A.I. Laws Draws Condemnation From All Corners

The addition of a ten-year moratorium on state laws regulating A.I. to the budget reconciliation bill passed by the House Energy & Commerce Committee last week and the House Budget Committee late last night has drawn swift condemnation from a broad range of voices: “Late last night, while America was sleeping, House Republicans advanced a […]

05.19.25

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Watchdog Group Publishes Encyclopedia of All the Nasty Things Big Tech Has Done

Gizmodo

The Tech Oversight Project’s site features dozens of pages on everything from tech anti-competitive practices to spreading anti-vaccine misinformation.    

03.29.22

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New Yorkers show sturdy support for Biden, distrust of big tech, poll says

NY Daily News

President Biden may be struggling nationally, but he is more popular in New York than local politicians like Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), according to a new statewide poll.

02.16.22

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Big Tech Sold Out on Its Promise of an Open Internet

Gizmodo

A new report from the Tech Oversight Project shows how tech giants have shifted their priorities under the threat of antitrust action.    

02.11.22

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Big Tech critics launch new project

The Hill

A collection of critics of Big Tech companies on Tuesday launched the Tech Oversight Project, a new group focused on pushing regulation through Congress. The group is being funded primarily by the Omidyar Network, the philanthropic network of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, and the Economic Security Project, a nonprofit led by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes. […]

01.18.22

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Big Tech foes launch ‘campaign-style’ initiative to push for antitrust legislation

The Washington Post

Tech giants in the past decade have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into lobbying, advertising, polling and research to advance their political interests in Washington. Now some of their top adversaries are forming a plan to use that same playbook to press Congress to pass bills that would place new limits on how they […]

01.17.22
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