News
What We’ve Learned in One Year of Pressing Issues
Some appreciations and reflections about our inaugural year
Tech
Tech
What the Flock? Exposing Big Tech’s Surveillance State
As spying becomes big business, more people are mobilizing to resist mass surveillance
Tech
Bridget Todd and the Business of AI Intimacy
A Pressing Issues conversation with the host of “There Are No Girls on the Internet” about her new audiobook
Tech
Three Words to Fix Government Spying: ‘Get a Warrant’
Why do so many Democrats still want to give Donald Trump unchecked surveillance powers?
Tech
Brendan Carr Declares War on Poor People
The Lifeline program helps low-income families stay connected. So, of course, the Trump FCC hates it.
Free Speech
The Antidote to Surveillance Is Solidarity
Why we’re launching a grassroots campaign to stop government spying
Tech
Closing the Back Door on Government Spying
How we stopped Trump from sneaking through new surveillance powers, and what’s next
Tech
Juries Remind Us That People Matter More Than Big Tech Platform Profits
What we knew all along — tech companies harm people in their schemes to ignore safety and expression
Tech
Biased and Bogus Sources Are Powering AI
I was promised Rosie from The Jetsons, but all I got was this half-baked AI overview
Tech
How Grok’s Demons Are Already Haunting the 2026 Election
One independent researcher’s effort to stop Elon Musk’s election-disinformation machine
Media
The Polarizing Narratives of Venezuela as Told Through Messaging Apps
A Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas analysis reveals how information about the world’s biggest story differs depending on the language
Tech
How Big Tech Helps ICE Silent Dissent
Gatekeepers at Apple and Google prioritize fealty to Trump over the First Amendment and public safety