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🚨 Our latest Dispatch: Musk and Meta, it all comes tumbling down. Highlights: Tanya O´Carroll's win over Meta, Marietje Schaake's pivotal The Tech Coup, and our weekly call to action. dispatch.the-citizens.com/your-loss-is-o…

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What is emerging from Meta whistleblowers is just shocking.

Six years ago, I walked into the lair of the tech gods - TED - to warn them democracy may not survive technology. In fact, I was the one who almost didn’t survive. This year I returned & called them data rapists. Complicit in a coup. Collaborators.

Seriously. Seriously. Meta/Facebook/Instagram wrote this in a press release today, “It’s absurd that the FTC is trying to break up a great American company.” This is a company competing for worst reputation among the top 100 brands (Axios Harris 100).

The landmark antitrust case against Meta resumes in Washington today. The US competition and consumer watchdog alleges that Meta, which already owned Facebook, bought Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 to eliminate competition, effectively giving itself a monopoly.

Statement below on the second landmark decision v Google in favor of the United States of America. On a personal note, I'm thrilled. This has been a decade in the making, and I believe history will prove it cost publishers globally more billions than one can count.

When you think you are above the law wsj.com/us-news/law/ma…

I never would have read *Careless People*, Sarah Wynn-Williams's tell-all memoir about her years running global policy for Facebook, but then Meta's lawyer tried to get the book suppressed and secured an injunction to prevent her from promoting it: npr.org/2025/03/14/nx-… 1/

🚨 100 Days of the Broligarchy In this emergency session of the Big Tech Oversight Board, we look at Trump’s first 100 days through the lens of Big Tech - the good, the bad and the Broligarchy. Join us Wed 30th April, 9AM PST/12pm EST/ 5PM BST - on ZOOM citizensreunited.substack.com/p/live-emergen…

Meta’s AI bots are empowered to engage in “romantic role-play.” The chats can turn explicit, even when the users are children. wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-a… via The Wall Street Journal

I think the Theo Von / Zuckerberg podcast episode is best summarized in the first 20 seconds…

Google and Meta, the owner of Facebook, accounted for at least half of the £43bn spent on advertising in the UK last year, according to new research thetimes.com/uk/technology-…

🚨 21 May 1 PM EST/6 PM BST/10 AM PST on Substack Live In this “fireside chat”, we’ll talk with scholar, writer and activist Shoshana Zuboff about surveillance capitalism and how she sees the “fight for a human future” today. Prepare your questions! dispatch.the-citizens.com/trump-2-0-and-…

📑 New report 📑 Our new report - Escalate: Social Media War During the India–Pakistan Conflict, explores how platforms like Facebook and X (formerly Twitter) failed to curb the spread of hate speech and disinformation during the recent conflict. thelondonstory.org/report/escalat… Read

A federal spending bill would impose a 10-year ban on all state and local AI regulation in the US Oppose this now! Design It For Us Accountable Tech actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-y…

Pension Funds Have Had It With Tesla’s Board And Musk forbes.com/sites/alanohns…