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The Dispatch is a newsletter from the Tech Oversight Project covering Big Tech accountability, including AI surveillance and social media harms, which are relevant to AI governance and deployment safety concerns.
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The Dispatch is a weekly newsletter from the Tech Oversight Project covering tech accountability issues including social media addiction litigation against Meta and Google, AI surveillance, and legislative battles over tech liability shields. It tracks legal, political, and regulatory developments affecting Big Tech companies.
Key Points
- •Covers landmark social media addiction trials against Meta and Google, including Zuckerberg's testimony and jury verdicts.
- •Tracks legislative efforts by Big Tech to secure liability shields through state legislatures.
- •Reports on AI surveillance becoming a national policy issue.
- •Highlights polling showing growing American skepticism toward AI and Big Tech.
- •Documents Meta's alleged document deletion and congressional testimony discrepancies.
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| Tech Oversight Project | publication | Publishes The Dispatch, a weekly newsletter covering Big Tech harms and accountability efforts in Congress and statehouses | 2025 |
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The Dispatch
Entering A New Era
This week in The Dispatch: A jury finds Meta and Google liable in a landmark verdict; Meta's insurance dries up; as Big Tech reels in court, it's quietly trying to sneak liability shields through state legislatures; and a new poll shows America is souring on AI.
STATEMENT: The Tech Oversight Project Heralds Verdict in Social Media Addiction Trials as an Earthquake for Big Tech
LOS ANGELES, CA – Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following statement after a verdict was handed down in the first case in the social media addiction trials. This was the first product liability case to go to trial that any Big Tech company has faced and was brought forward
The Jury Is Asking About Punitive Damages. Read into that.
This week in the Dispatch: A damages question from the jury signals where deliberations could be heading; the AI preemption fight is back and uglier than ever; and Meta's big Illinois spending spree backfires.
Social Media Addiction Bellwether in Jury's Hands, Senate Judiciary Calls out Meta
This week in The Dispatch: The K.G.M. trial awaits a verdict, and Senate Judiciary puts Meta on blast for failing to comply with investigations.
Verdict Watch: Day of Reckoning for Meta, Google Could Come This Week
This week in The Dispatch: Meta whistleblower drops bombshells in court; House Republicans hand tech CEOs a get-out-of-jail-free card; and state lawmakers are fed up with Big Tech's stranglehold on Trump’s D.C
AI Surveillance Becomes a National Issue, New Docs Detail the Addiction Economy
This week in The Dispatch: AI surveillance becomes a national issue and new court docs show how Meta sought to addict teens to win whole households.
Zuck in the Hot Seat, Meta's $65M Election Play
This week in The Dispatch: What Mark Zuckerberg told the court; Meta spends big in elections; NJ steps up on child safety
⚖️ JUDGEMENT DAY: Zuckerberg Takes the Stand in Landmark Trial
Welcome back to The Dispatch from The Tech Oversight Project, your weekly updates on all things tech accountability. Follow us on Twitter at @Tech_Oversight and @techoversight.bsky.social on Bluesky.
Z-DAY HAS ARRIVED: As Mark Zuckerberg takes the stand today in the landmark social media addiction trials, newly unsealed
TOP REPORT: Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following report on the eve of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in the social media addiction trials. The report analyzes Zuckerberg’s testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2024 against newly unsealed documents that show Zuckerberg
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