Investigating concentrated power over digital infrastructure & AI in order to promote the free flow of information (@knightfdn support w/in @OpenMarkets)
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Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: In less than 12 hours, a group of ex-DOGE cyber researchers were able to penetrate Anthropic’s systems using AI agents — including Slack channels where the most sensitive models are discussed.
This is just weeks after
Anthropic whistleblower Joseph Coxon charged the company w/launching “a hubristic gamble” from a “private company’s Slack.”
Read our story here (gift link):
wapo.st/4smNlsC
Good news - > digiday.com/media/metas-new-…
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
Meta has built a trillion-dollar business using willfully unfair, anticompetitive, deceptive, and unconscionable practices. The unilateral change to its use of business website content buried in its TOS is but the latest example. courtneyradsch.substack.com/…
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
Voters who Googled how to donate to Talarico got an AI answer that led them to give to someone else.
A network of fake news sites seeded messaging about state and local candidates that AI answers picked up on.
My story on how the AI midterms are going: theatlantic.com/technology/2…
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
Starlink has become critical military infrastructure. But it remains under the control of Elon Musk, a billionaire who can decide who gets access and on what terms.
That's far too much power for one private company (& CEO) to wield.
New from @MaxvonThun: substack.com/home/post/p-221…
NEW: @courtneyr calls on regulators to put a stop to Meta's abusive new content rule:
cmdg.tech/publications/cmdg-…
Meta should back down on implementing any unilateral changes that undercut publisher & user controls over how their intellectual property is used for AI commercial products...
Meta is essentially saying they will control not only their own users' IP to make and maintain AI products, but also any IP a Meta user "makes available."
This should raise alarm to all regulators about Big Tech's abuse-of-dominance tactics using AI development as a pretext.
Grateful to @NiemanLab for their coverage. Here's the latest: niemanlab.org/2026/10/u-k-po…
Should the world's biggest AI companies get to write their own safety rules?
@danielahanley & Arnav Rao argue instead for open safety standards, independent oversight, & no special antitrust exemptions. @monthly
washingtonmonthly.com/2026/1…
Google controls a critical part of how journalism reaches the public.
It has hampered independent media and democratic debate.
@BarryLynn @techpolicypress on why breaking Google's monopoly is about much more than competition:
techpolicy.press/ai-hype-hel…
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
The courts had an opportunity to restore competition and curb one of the world's most powerful monopolies.
Instead, they left Google's empire intact.
@BarryLynn calls the remedies decisions acts of “cowardice." @techpolicypress
techpolicy.press/ai-hype-hel…
Glad to be part of this letter and the fight for copyright enforcement around the world.
Today a group of 63 international media organizations led by the News/Media Alliance delivered a letter to senior Australian politicians asking them to reject proposed changes to the country’s copyright laws that would allow artificial intelligence companies to use copyrighted material in training their models.
Collectively, the signatories represent thousands of copyright owners, creative sector organizations, and publishers across the world, and contribute to a growing domestic and international consensus, including comments from the Vatican, condemning the proposed changes.
They echo claims from Australia’s creative community that this would upend the country’s copyright regime by forcing rights holders to effectively forfeit their rights unless they opt-out. This undermines decades of international precedent, devalues their works and investments, and threatens their ability to negotiate for fair compensation for access to and use of their works.
More: newsmediaalliance.org/austra…
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
If you're a business or artist with intellectual property, watch the clock.
10 days until Meta claims the right to scrape your website to develop its AI. Your consent? Apparently unnecessary. All it takes is someone sharing a link on Facebook or Instagram - or you using Meta's services.
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
This is exactly the kind of AI financing risk (and exposure to the wider economy) we examine in our new report with @RealBankReform, out today: openmarketsinstitute.org/pub…
“If CoreWeave is borrowing at 9% and the best return they can get off of that is a 5% return, it doesn’t matter how much they scale: They’re destroying value at every turn…That’s especially true for the type of neocloud that funds their entire investment based on debt. The more leverage we use to build data centers, the more risk we’re bringing into the system.”
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
William Randolph Hearst ran his politics through 25 newspapers. Barry Lynn, executive director of the @openmarkets, argues the same move is even more powerful today.
From a panel on money in politics at the 2026 @StiglerCenter Annual Conference. Watch the full panel below 👇
Center for Media & Digital Governance retweeted
New in @monthly: Daniel Hanley & Arnav Rao argue that AI companies do not need an antitrust exemption & should instead use a broadly representative, government-supervised standards body to set clear safeguards for frontier AI development. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/1…
Loss of jobs, unfortunately, is just the beginning of the harms of this merger.
We also expect to see loss of diversity and plurality in the creative industries, and weaker independent journalism.
Skydance’s David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz have sent a memo to employees about the merged Paramount-Warner Bros., acknowledging that layoffs will be part of the process:
• “Integrating two companies will bring change, including difficult decisions that affect our workforce. We are committed to handling this process thoughtfully and respectfully.”
• Paramount execs have said they are targeting more than $6B in annualized cost savings over three years, with some of those savings coming from layoffs.
• The merger could result in the loss of some 4,500 film and TV jobs in L.A. alone over three years, per a Los Angeles County report.
variety.com/2026/film/news/s…
We're tracking how this includes AI firms violating copyright law to get ahead of their competitors:
My article Lawbreaking as a Method of Competition is out in @AmULRev. I argue that large-scale violations of consumer protection, labor, and other laws of general application should be challenged as an unfair method of competition by the Federal Trade Commission.
