Tech
The AI Industry Is Running the Polluters’ Playbook
We’ve seen these tactics before, and there’s still time to do something about it
Tech
Media
Loss Leaders: Tech Barons Buy Up Media Outlets to Hide Grifts
Billionaires are amassing control of our information environment to manipulate and control politics
Future of Journalism
Watching Wisconsin’s Secretive Data Centers
How local independent news outlets are alerting communities to the threats posed by Big Tech
Media
Saying No to AI Slop — and The Baltimore Sun
Certain journalistic lines just can’t be crossed
News
What We’ve Learned in One Year of Pressing Issues
Some appreciations and reflections about our inaugural year
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