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The Tech Oversight Project is a nonprofit dedicated to holding Big Tech accountable by passing comprehensive antitrust, privacy protections, and children's safety legislation. Sign up for our weekly newsletter: www.techoversight.org
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“This is really about the algorithms and the way companies are manipulating people with those algorithms” – Maryland Del. @jaredssolomon talks w/NPR about his state’s trailblazing #KidsCode law

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

🚨Congressional Republicans are fast-tracking two bills to give Elon Musk the power to issue his own “stablecoin” that could compete w/ the U.S. dollar and control the future of money. This is brazen pay-to-play and self-dealing, and we're watching it play out in front of us.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

👀 👀 👀 apnews.com/article/meta...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Warning labels exist for: ✔️ Cigarettes ✔️ Alcohol ✔️ Toys ✔️ Blankets ✔️ Window shades ❌ Social media

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The latest horrifying lack of oversight from Meta: Gruesome violence, animal abuse, murders, dead bodies, and other gore have been showing up in reels across Instagram for users. The response? They “apologize for the mistake” 🙄

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

💸Why are prices so high? Big Tech's anti-consumer schemes like "surveillance pricing" allow companies to charge you more based on the personal data they collect, like search history and location. States are leading the way in ending this discriminatory practice.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

🧵@lastweektonight1.bsky.social just went hard on Mark Zuckerberg’s BS, and we’ve got the receipts to back him up - let’s dive in on Meta’s appalling kid safety record

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt

submitted 12 days ago • 2715 comments

🚨NEW: 20+ USDS employees resigned today, saying they refuse to use their skills as technologists to dismantle critical public services we rely on. They refused to legitimize billionaire Elon Musk hijacking their agency into DOGE.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

2023: US Office of National Intelligence sounding the alarm that Google's data surveillance = national security threat. Google isn’t just selling location data and identifying information to big brands – it's selling to foreign adversaries. 2025: 🚨STILL HAPPENING 🚨

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Big Tech has too much power over our everyday lives – the information we receive, what we buy, and how we communicate with one another. Antitrust enforcement is bipartisan because it's one of the only checks we have on Big Tech's abuses and corrupt influence on Washington.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Yesterday’s Senate Judiciary hearing on kids' digital safety was a promising start from legislators, but Congress needs to produce results. Remember the holdup? Speaker Johnson wouldn’t bring KOSA to the House floor in 2024 despite overwhelming bipartisan calls for a vote.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment