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The Tech Oversight Project Celebrates as New York’s Strongest-In-The-Nation AI Chatbot Protections for Kids Are Signed Into Law
The Tech Oversight Project celebrated Governor Kathy Hochul’s signature yesterday of S9051/A10379, legislation authored by Senator Kristen Gonzalez and Assemblymember Alex Bores that will now give New York kids and families the strongest youth AI chatbot protections in the country. The new law sets a national bar for how AI companies must design their products, […]
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DCCC Urges Nearly Half of Targeted Campaigns to Spend Millions on Attacks Linking Republicans to Big Tech and AI Industry
WASHINGTON, DC – The Tech Oversight Project applauded the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for embracing tech accountability messaging and urging over 30 campaigns, of a total 69 races, to put millions of dollars behind paid media linking Republicans to the corrupt Big Tech handouts that are raising costs, endangering families, and enriching Big Tech CEOs at […]
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Tech Oversight Project, Jonathan Haidt, Sen. Kristen Gonzalez, Survivor Parents Urge Gov. Hochul to Sign Nation’s Strongest AI Chatbot Protections for Kids Into Law at Packed Brooklyn Library Event
BROOKLYN, NY – It was a packed house at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn Heights branch as The Tech Oversight Project, The TAG Movement, and Reset Tech hosted a free, educational community event in partnership with BPL and Common Sense Media. The event brought together survivor parents, young people, medical and youth development experts, and […]
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MEMO: Make Big Tech Pay: The Closing Argument on Data Centers
MEMORANDUM To: Interested Parties From: Sacha Haworth, Founder & Executive Director of The Tech Oversight Project Re: Make Big Tech Pay: The Closing Argument on Data Centers Date: October 5, 2026 A New York Times report just revealed that Meta claimed $4 billion through a federal tax writeoff to build data centers as “pilot projects” […]
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The Tech Oversight Project Condemns Google AdTech Ruling
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project condemned Judge Leonie M. Brinkema’s misguided decision to let Google continue operating a digital advertising monopoly that drives up the costs of everyday goods and services. Statement from Sacha Haworth, Executive Director of The Tech Oversight Project, is below: “It takes an Olympic level of mental gymnastics to […]
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Advocates Call on Dan Koh to Disavow AI Super PAC’s Last-Minute MA-06 Spending
The Tech Oversight Project is leading a coalition of Massachusetts and national advocates in sending a letter calling on MA-06 Democratic candidate Dan Koh to disavow more than $700,000 that AI super PAC Think Big has spent on his behalf this week in the final days before the primary. “Across the political spectrum, voters want […]
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ICYMI: WSJ – Inside Big Tech’s Multi-Million-Dollar Bid to Buy Trump’s Favor
Today, The Tech Oversight Project blasted Big Tech CEOs for funneling millions into President Trump’s personal and political projects in exchange for access and favorable treatment, on the heels of the Wall Street Journal’s new bombshell investigation into how Trump personally turns corporate donations into government favors. “Meta got caught cutting Trump a $10 million […]
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FLOOR ALERT: VOTE NO – H.R. 7757, the “KIDS Act”
HOLLOW BILL IMPEDES REAL PROTECTIONS FOR KIDS, CREATES PREEMPTION BACKDOOR OPPOSED BY 100 BIPARTISAN KIDS ONLINE SAFETY CHAMPIONS American Federation of Teachers (AFT) – U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops – NAACP – Design It For Us – Common Sense Media – Consumer Federation of America – Demand Progress – Public Citizen – Mothers Against Media […]
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ICYMI: WSJ: Meta Tried to Silence Her. Now She’s Suing.
Filing documents over a year of harassment by Meta lawyers, including photographing her without her knowledge and tracking her around the country WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project spotlighted reporting from the Wall Street Journal on Sarah Wynn-Williams’s bombshell lawsuit against Meta alleging a year of harassment, stalking, and privacy violations in the […]
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The Tech Oversight Project Calls on Gov. Hochul to Sign New York’s Nation-Leading Youth Chatbot Safety Bill
The Tech Oversight Project today applauded the New York State Legislature’s unanimous final passage of the nation-leading youth chatbot safety bill (S.9051/A.10379), sponsored by State Senator Kristen Gonzalez and Assemblymember Alex Bores and developed in cooperation with Attorney General Letitia James. “In a year when Big Tech killed or gutted chatbot safety bills in state […]
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TOP-PPP POLL: Obernolte and Trahan’s Constituents Oppose Their Efforts to Weaken AI Laws
Results showed a wide majority of Obernolte and Trahan’s respective constituents oppose efforts to weaken AI catastrophic risk protection and water down chatbot safety laws View the CA-23 results here View the MA-3 results here WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, The Tech Oversight Project released surveys from Republican Congressman Jay Obernolte’s (CA-23) and Democratic Congresswoman Lori Trahan’s […]
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The Tech Oversight Project Calls Out OpenAI’s AI Super PAC Lies
OpenAI’s latest attempt to distance itself from the AI super PAC its president founded, funded, and is using to target pro-AI safety candidates WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project called out OpenAI’s outright lies about the role it played in creating Leading the Future, the AI super PAC spending millions to block the strongest […]
