🚨 Big news: This morning the Digital Childhood Institute and our allies filed a 55-page FTC complaint against Apple. Apple has deceived families, exploited kids, violated COPPA, and broken an FTC consent decree. The decade of deception ends now. 🧵 foxbusiness.com/fox-news-polit…

I am so honored to serve as Coalitions Advisor for this new organization which launched this month, the Digital Childhood Institute, which aims to bring together the best and boldest advocates and legal experts to hold Big Tech accountable. And they're not wasting any time!

BREAKING: New @ProPublica investigation by Renee Dudley and Doris Burke reveals Microsoft omitted from its Pentagon security plan that China-based engineers were maintaining highly sensitive U.S. Defense Department cloud systems. Big omission.

Ladies and gents: our national champions.

Great piece on how the Epic Games-Apple case is delivering knock-on benefits for competition, this time with lower prices for Substack readers:

We’re also scrapping outdated and obsolete rules from the books—like rules for CB radio and TV antennas that haven’t been relevant for decades, and Eisenhower-era refrigerator mandates.

I agree with this view. In the age of trillion dollar tech companies and powerful social media, ownership caps on local broadcasters is just nuts.

Stanford student Elsa tells The Dynamist's host Evan Swarztrauber how the administration reacted to her reporting on the CCP’s exploitation of exchange student programs to collect data. Her reporting with Garret Molloy exposes Beijing’s systematic intelligence network on U.S.

🔊Must Listen: Why U.S. Higher Ed Fails on the CCP Threat Stanford students Elsa & Garret Molloy describe how China silences U.S. researchers critical of the CCP by weaponizing their access to Chinese sources. Listen to it all with Evan Swarztrauber on The Dynamist 🎯👇

This is an important piece and a must read.

Apple doesn’t follow through on its commitments to President Trump. They promise the moon and fail to deliver — or do the exact opposite. It’s time for that to change.

Please join us for a conversation with Patrick McGee about his newly released book, Apple in China, which offers an eye-opening account of Apple’s rise alongside China’s—and what it means for the future of tech and trade. Here’s the link to register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…