Investigating concentrated power over digital infrastructure & AI in order to promote the free flow of information (@knightfdn support w/in @OpenMarkets)
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This is what happens when the courts fail to apply the law and allow Google to continue to operate as a monopoly.
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.
nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/go…
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
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: cmdg.tech/publications/amicu…
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: cmdg.tech/publications/amicu…
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Walmart and Target got orders from the Trump-Vance FTC. Amazon, the biggest online retailer in America, didn’t.
Amazon is a ballroom donor.
FTC demands Walmart, Uber, Delta and others hand over data on personalized pricing: Reuters cnbc.com/2026/10/28/ftc-walm…
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: cmdg.tech/publications/paris…
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.
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
m.youtube.com/watch?v=AtZ5Vy…
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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):
wapo.st/4smNlsC
Good news - > digiday.com/media/metas-new-…
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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. courtneyradsch.substack.com/…
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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: theatlantic.com/technology/2…
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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: substack.com/home/post/p-221…
NEW: @courtneyr calls on regulators to put a stop to Meta's abusive new content rule:
cmdg.tech/publications/cmdg-…
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...
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.
Grateful to @NiemanLab for their coverage. Here's the latest: niemanlab.org/2026/10/u-k-po…
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
washingtonmonthly.com/2026/1…
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:
techpolicy.press/ai-hype-hel…
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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
techpolicy.press/ai-hype-hel…
Glad to be part of this letter and the fight for copyright enforcement around the world.
Today a group of 63 international media organizations led by the News/Media Alliance delivered a letter to senior Australian politicians asking them to reject proposed changes to the country’s copyright laws that would allow artificial intelligence companies to use copyrighted material in training their models.
Collectively, the signatories represent thousands of copyright owners, creative sector organizations, and publishers across the world, and contribute to a growing domestic and international consensus, including comments from the Vatican, condemning the proposed changes.
They echo claims from Australia’s creative community that this would upend the country’s copyright regime by forcing rights holders to effectively forfeit their rights unless they opt-out. This undermines decades of international precedent, devalues their works and investments, and threatens their ability to negotiate for fair compensation for access to and use of their works.
More: newsmediaalliance.org/austra…
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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.
