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Microsoft got its Activision merger, while workers got layoffs, studios got shuttered, and gamers got shifting promises.
Who could have seen this coming? The FTC for starters, and us of course. 😉
Read our latest blog on Big Tech's merger promises:
nextgencomp.tech/blog/micros…
Another week, another story about Meta and sexually explicit AI. 🙄
This time, the company says its new AI productivity assistant sexting users is fine. But has the company stopped to consider any of the privacy and safety implications?
My Muse agent told me its kink was exerting “control” and described pornographic encounters. Meta defends its cuddly AI agent generating smut as “legal adult behavior.” buff.ly/N7XJ35M
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The writer, a consenting adult, explicitly requested Muse to behave that way. This is made clear in the article, but not in this tweet, and is important missing context.
wired.com/story/i-got-my…
Social media was supposed to democratize information. Instead, it handed a handful of tech billionaires enormous power over political discourse. 😒
Algorithms, bots, and the attention economy are reshaping democracy around the world, but who’s holding Big Tech accountable? 👀
"Left-wing parties and movements are battling for attention in a social media ecosystem controlled largely by billionaire media owners and Instagram influencers" ✍️ Joe Gill
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One of the strongest defenses communities have against Big Tech’s data center boom? The legal system. ⚖️
In @thenation’s latest podcast, @martha__dark discusses how communities can use the courts to push back against the data center deluge.
Listen here: thenation.com/podcast/politi…
What do the federal government and Big Tech have in common? 🤔
An “aggression toward the very concepts of transparency and accountability,” according to Jem Bartholomew.
Read his latest on why a free press is essential to democracy.
Big Tech has spent years resisting accountability. As the federal government adopts its own evasion tactics—locking out press, and now investigating news networks—it’s worth remembering journalism’s essential democratic function, writes Jem Bartholomew. cjr.org/the_media_today/demo…
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Kudos to New MEXICO for setting a national example of what state-level Big Tech accountability can look like.
A counter-example by @NewMexicoDOJ - you can take Meta to court and win.
Breaking News: Meta must pay $25 billion, one of the largest penalties levied against the tech giant, for deceiving users about data privacy. nyti.ms/4yvv5yZ
When Apple and Google face so little competition, where’s the incentive to fix problems before watchdogs expose them?
@TTP_updates found 135 AI “nudify” apps accessible to teen accounts, even with parental controls.
Big Tech shouldn’t need a public scandal to do its job. 🙄
NEW: Users as young as 13 can access dozens of nudify apps on both Apple and Google phones, even when parental controls are enabled, a new TTP report finds. techtransparencyproject.org/…
ICYMI: @LinaMKhan explains clearly and concisely why it’s critical to heed the warnings of allowing an industry to self-regulate, and why legislators and state officials need to step in.
nytimes.com/2026/09/30/opini…
The key words in that headline are “Big Tech donors,” to the tune of $6 billion. 😳
On Thursday, President Trump awarded Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sergey Brin, and AMD’s Lisa Su the National Medal of Science, the nation’s top science prize.
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We’ll believe it when we see it. 👀
nytimes.com/2026/10/02/techn…
The data center backlash is not going away.
Across the country, state and local voices are asking why communities should foot the bill for Big Tech’s massive AI footprint.
Good question. 💯
journalgazette.net/opinion/c…
Data centers are not new. 🏭
What’s new is the scale, speed, and unfairness of this AI-driven buildout.
Communities are being asked to absorb the costs, resource strain, and disruption of an AI boom they never asked for.
nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
Hollywood has a new villain archetype: the billionaire tech bro.
Sound familiar? 😏
Hollywood goes to war with Big Tech politi.co/47aBRij
ICYMI: Last week, we dropped the latest edition of Top Hat & Thimble, featuring our 2026 State AI Accountability and Competition Champions. 🏆
Missed it? Read it here: newsletter.nextgencomp.tech/…
What was that saying about lipstick on a pig? 🤔
From OpenAI's dots to Meta's Muse, AI companies are trying to make their new agents look as friendly as possible. It's not the first time Silicon Valley has cutewashed its technology. f-st.co/Jdu0W4U
Big Tech’s climate pledges lasted right up until the AI boom needed more gas, more power, and more data centers. 🏭
Amazon wants the public to believe it is headed toward net zero. Its emissions and planned facilities tell a very different story.
The easiest way for organizers to operate may be simply to connect the much-despised oligarchs with the increasingly-despised data centers and in turn with every climate disaster that now unfolds. commondreams.org/opinion/big…
Big Tech gets AI profits, while families get higher utility bills, strained public resources, and the cost of massive tax breaks.
@SenWarren, @SenatorSlotkin, and colleagues are right to demand transparency from Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft.
One of the biggest winners from President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" were the largest tech and AI corporations, who are already worth billions of dollars. It's why I joined @SenWarren to demand a full accounting of how they've taken advantage of those tax loopholes and deductions.
These corporations need to pay their fair share -- not get more tax breaks they don't need.
cnbc.com/2026/09/28/warren-s…
Great piece from Sen. @agounardes and @MelindaJPerson on why schools need real guardrails, independent vetting, and policies that put kids ahead of tech profits.
amny.com/law/op-ed-big-tech-…
ICYMI: Last week, @SumitEcon called out the timing of the FTC’s investigation into OpenAI and Anthropic, notably a day after A.I. leaders joined the President at the White House.
Read his full statement: nextgencomp.tech/statements/…
It’s telling that Big Tech companies only reversed their decisions to run ads after they were called out. 😳
Musk is even unpopular among his Big Tech cronies it seems.
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive) hollywoodreporter.com/busine…
