So much of Silicon Valley has reached the conclusion that there is money to be made from American authoritarianism, writes Dave Karpf. With its ‘manifesto,’ Palantir wants to remind you that it reached that conclusion first, he says.
Palantir's ImmigrationOS endangers democracy and the rule of law, according to a new law review paper from Fordham Law School’s Chinmayi Sharma and Sam Adler. In this week’s Tech Policy Press podcast, they break down the risks of AI-powered surveillance in immigration enforcement.
The Trump administration used tariff threats to pressure countries into gutting their own tech regulations. From Indonesia to Brazil, Big Tech's wish list became US trade policy, according to an investigation led by Agência Pública as part of the series The Invisible Hand of Big Tech.
The European Commission's new age verification app has already been found to have structural security flaws, reports Joana Soares. For critics, the tool is a symptom of a wider problem: EU policymakers are focused on who can access the internet, not on how platforms are built.
Europe has the ideas and the talent — but not the capital, argue Elif Memet, Erik Dalaker, Julian von Moltke & Adrien Joly. Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the largest in the world, could anchor a dedicated European venture vehicle and change that.
Big Tech has long claimed to be “neutral infrastructure,” not a publisher with a viewpoint argues Jack Bandy. Now, facing Chicago’s social media tax, it’s invoking press freedom to avoid paying its fair share.
Hungary’s April election ended Viktor Orbán’s 16-year run. Zsófia Fülöp & Szilárd Teczár write that disinformation isn’t a magic trick that reliably sways voters. The takeaway is to dial down election-only focus and support information integrity year-round.
In 2024, a teen killed 3 and stabbed 10 others in Southport, UK. Misinformation about the attack fueled anti-immigration riots that spread across Britain. Jade-Ruyu Yan reports on a government inquiry examining contributing factors, including the role of tech platforms.
Senate Democrats pressed Republicans on the Federal Trade Commission on to what extent their enforcement has been independent from President Trump at an oversight hearing this week. Here are the key moments and a transcript from the session.
In the second of two posts on the implications of the EU Court of Justice Russmedia ruling, Daphne Keller explores potential limits to its impact and arguments that platforms might make in saying new obligations do not apply to them.
The data work industry, which monetizes the collection of information used to train AI systems, is often shrouded in secrecy. But a new report maps out how at least 30 data platforms are quietly connected to Big Tech companies, Tech Policy Press fellow Tatiana Dias writes.
Juries in California and New Mexico held tech platforms accountable for the harmful impacts of their design and business practices. Jennie DeSerio and Lori Schott, founding parents of ParentsRISE!, urge Congress to do the same and pass laws that truly protect kids.
Lawsuits targeting the use of Chromebook in schools likely just got materially stronger because of the recent child safety verdict against Meta, and the reasons why expose the structural deception at the heart of EdTech's relationship with kids, Danai Nhando writes.
AI is a governance problem better tech can't fix—and may obscure, writes Laura MacCleery. We must support informed human judgment wherever AI meets people's lives: not formality, but functional oversight with real power, resources, and understanding of what AI can, can't and shouldn't do, she says.
Palantir's ImmigrationOS endangers democracy and the rule of law, according to a new law review paper from Fordham Law School’s Chinmayi Sharma and Sam Adler. In this week’s Tech Policy Press podcast, they break down the risks of AI-powered surveillance in immigration enforcement.
The Trump administration used tariff threats to pressure countries into gutting their own tech regulations. From Indonesia to Brazil, Big Tech's wish list became US trade policy, according to an investigation led by Agência Pública as part of the series The Invisible Hand of Big Tech.
Big Tech has long claimed to be “neutral infrastructure,” not a publisher with a viewpoint argues Jack Bandy. Now, facing Chicago’s social media tax, it’s invoking press freedom to avoid paying its fair share.
Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their data centers, @investigate-europe.eu reports in collaboration with Tech Policy Press and other media partners.
Synthetic data may solve AI’s data shortage—but it also risks creating a distorted “mirror” of reality, writes Marcelle Momha. Without standards for quality, transparency, and accountability, errors and bias can scale invisibly across systems.
Hungary’s April election ended Viktor Orbán’s 16-year run. Zsófia Fülöp & Szilárd Teczár write that disinformation isn’t a magic trick that reliably sways voters. The takeaway is to dial down election-only focus and support information integrity year-round.
Public broadband isn't a radical experiment—it's a proven solution to a real problem affecting thousands of New Yorkers right now, write Suzi Ragheb and Katherine Jin. All that’s needed is the political will to pursue it, they say, arguing the Mamdani administration should see it as an opportunity.
Robo-dogs and ghost sharks grab headlines—but they’re just the spectacle. Behind them lies a vast system of surveillance, data extraction, and automated exclusion shaping modern border control, writes Tech Policy Press Fellow Petra Molnar.
Online communities are shaped not only by rules and enforcement, but by the emotional climates that develop within them, writes Taylor Moore. She proposes a ‘Collective Sentiment Policy Model’ that treats community-level emotional patterns as a legitimate and governable object of policy.
As global approaches to platform regulation proliferate, a new Council of Europe recommendation offers a framework for regulation that places human rights and user empowerment first, writes Owen Bennett.
The tech accountability community should be as clear-eyed about dating apps as it is about social media — demanding better design, more accountability, and more honesty about what they're actually built to do, writes Emma Leiken.
Anthropic built its AI on pirated books, then argued copyright shouldn't apply to AI training. Now its own code has leaked—and it's running straight to copyright to stop the spread. Some are enjoying the irony, writes Tech Policy Press fellow James Ball. But are they justified?
Silicon Valley’s empty moral posturing over AI and the future may create an opening to have a good fight about the values most people share—autonomy, fairness, humanity—and how to make sure our tech serves those righteous aims from now on, writes Daniel Dobrygowski.
In December, a European court handed down a ruling that could have major unintended consequences on online speech, writes Daphne Keller, director of platform regulation at Stanford Law School's Program in Law, Science & Technology.
