Center for Media & Digital Governance

Investigating concentrated power over digital infrastructure & AI in order to promote the free flow of information (@knightfdn support w/in @OpenMarkets)

[Open Markets Institute @openmarkets]

Excellent: @SenatorLujan warns Brendan Carr to prepare to answer questions about "the nonsense and the cover-ups that have been taking place" at the FCC.

https://t.co/OI43giueKX

[Center for Media & Digital Governance @CMDGtech]

Google decides what search results you see. Amazon shapes what products you find.

AI agents go further, deciding what you buy, read, and do.

Whoever controls these agents will wield extraordinary power. Our new report explains what's at stake.

https://t.co/m6R63J9NOY

[Center for Media & Digital Governance @CMDGtech]

This is what happens when the courts fail to apply the law and allow Google to continue to operate as a monopoly.

[Open Markets Institute @openmarkets]

Google's message to schools: Accept our AI or lose access to Search.

This is textbook abuse of monopoly power: leveraging control over an essential gateway to information to force adoption of another product.

https://t.co/pVTZwJfabv

[Center for Media & Digital Governance @CMDGtech]

Reporting isn't free. If AI companies can take the work & divert the revenue that supports it, the public will ultimately pay the price through less independent journalism & less accountability. - @courtneyr

[Center for Media & Digital Governance @CMDGtech]

We worked with our @openmarkets colleagues to file an amicus brief informing a critically important case for the future of copyright enforcement in AI.

Find it here: https://t.co/GFoUAOdoPG

[Center for Media & Digital Governance @CMDGtech]

We worked with our @openmarkets colleagues to file an amicus brief informing a critically important case for the future of copyright enforcement in AI.

Find it here: https://t.co/GFoUAOdoPG

[Douglas Farrar @DouglasLFarrar]

Walmart and Target got orders from the Trump-Vance FTC. Amazon, the biggest online retailer in America, didn’t.

Amazon is a ballroom donor.

[Center for Media & Digital Governance @CMDGtech]

NEW - A French appeals court ruling reinforces a fundamental principle:

Dominant platforms must not be allowed to unilaterally determine what journalism is worth or how it can be used.

Learn more: https://t.co/puV4WZJ5CH

[Center for Media & Digital Governance @CMDGtech]

NOW - Be sure to tune in and hear from top experts, including our director @courtneyr, on how we can bring much-needed accountability & enforcement to AI.

[Dr. Courtney Radsch @courtneyr]

About to kick off @AllTechIsHuman’s Responsible Tech Summit moderating the first panel on AI benchmarking, evaluation and enforcement amid the frontier pacing debate with @mathbabedotorg @ChowdhuryRumman & @AlexBores. Watch the livestream starting at 11
https://t.co/eY44cfMBiT

[Elizabeth Dwoskin @lizzadwoskin]

EXCLUSIVE: In less than 12 hours, a group of ex-DOGE cyber researchers were able to penetrate Anthropic’s systems using AI agents — including Slack channels where the most sensitive models are discussed.
This is just weeks after
Anthropic whistleblower Joseph Coxon charged the company w/launching “a hubristic gamble” from a “private company’s Slack.”
Read our story here (gift link):
https://t.co/x6F8Dg6SLR

[Center for Media & Digital Governance @CMDGtech]

Good news - > https://t.co/H7SztJXg66

[Dr. Courtney Radsch @courtneyr]

Meta has built a trillion-dollar business using willfully unfair, anticompetitive, deceptive, and unconscionable practices. The unilateral change to its use of business website content buried in its TOS is but the latest example. https://t.co/ZhDpKQEohW

[Will Oremus @WillOremus]

Voters who Googled how to donate to Talarico got an AI answer that led them to give to someone else.

A network of fake news sites seeded messaging about state and local candidates that AI answers picked up on.

My story on how the AI midterms are going: https://t.co/tIRBpd7d70

[Open Markets Institute @openmarkets]

Starlink has become critical military infrastructure. But it remains under the control of Elon Musk, a billionaire who can decide who gets access and on what terms.

That's far too much power for one private company (& CEO) to wield.

New from @MaxvonThun: https://t.co/dDcNK2UlNf

[Center for Media & Digital Governance @CMDGtech]

NEW: @courtneyr calls on regulators to put a stop to Meta's abusive new content rule:
https://t.co/Lxt0xjIXr8

[Center for Media & Digital Governance @CMDGtech]

Meta is essentially saying they will control not only their own users' IP to make and maintain AI products, but also any IP a Meta user "makes available."

This should raise alarm to all regulators about Big Tech's abuse-of-dominance tactics using AI development as a pretext.

[Center for Media & Digital Governance @CMDGtech]

Grateful to @NiemanLab for their coverage. Here's the latest: https://t.co/iGR1VkgYYr

[Center for Media & Digital Governance @CMDGtech]

Meta should back down on implementing any unilateral changes that undercut publisher & user controls over how their intellectual property is used for AI commercial products...

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

If you're a business or artist with intellectual property, watch the clock.

10 days until Meta claims the right to scrape your website to develop its AI. Your consent? Apparently unnecessary. All it takes is someone sharing a link on Facebook or Instagram - or you using Meta's services.

[Center for Media & Digital Governance @CMDGtech]

Meta is essentially saying they will control not only their own users' IP to make and maintain AI products, but also any IP a Meta user "makes available."

This should raise alarm to all regulators about Big Tech's abuse-of-dominance tactics using AI development as a pretext.

[Center for Media & Digital Governance @CMDGtech]

Should the world's biggest AI companies get to write their own safety rules?

@danielahanley & Arnav Rao argue instead for open safety standards, independent oversight, & no special antitrust exemptions. @monthly

https://t.co/FHb6cAT5NE

[Center for Media & Digital Governance @CMDGtech]

Google controls a critical part of how journalism reaches the public.

It has hampered independent media and democratic debate.

@BarryLynn @techpolicypress on why breaking Google's monopoly is about much more than competition:

https://t.co/506yEeOhOa

[Open Markets Institute @openmarkets]

The courts had an opportunity to restore competition and curb one of the world's most powerful monopolies.
Instead, they left Google's empire intact.

@BarryLynn calls the remedies decisions acts of “cowardice." @techpolicypress

https://t.co/3oy74gDYiy