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Zephyr Teachout

@zephyrteachout
86 posts
2026-02-27
Evidence from similar call center workers surveillance showed extreme distress response. We have to stop this before it becomes normalized.
2026-02-27 View on X
The Verge

Burger King launches Patty, an OpenAI-powered voice chatbot in headsets that offers coaching, meal prep help, and evaluates interactions for “friendliness”

2026-02-26
Evidence from similar call center workers surveillance showed extreme distress response. We have to stop this before it becomes normalized.
2026-02-26 View on X
The Verge

Burger King launches Patty, an OpenAI-powered voice chatbot in headsets that offers coaching, meal prep help, and evaluates interactions for “friendliness”

AI chatbot ‘Patty’ is going to live inside employees' headsets. … Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees.

2026-02-03
Concentration breeds corruption. Break up Meta.
2026-02-03 View on X
Politico

Meta gives $65M to two super PACs to elect California state candidates, regardless of party, whom it views as supportive of the AI and tech industry

2025-02-21
One of my reasons for being so concerned about big tech personalized wages and prices is how it can be used to punish and reward viewpoints via prices and wages
2025-02-21 View on X
Bloomberg

US FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson announces an inquiry into “Big Tech censorship”, which he calls “un-American” and “potentially illegal”, and seeks public comment

including ‘shadow banning’ Sean Burch / The Wrap : Trump-Appointed FTC Chair Launches Big Tech Inquiry for ‘Bullying’ and Censorship Sean Burch / TVNewsCheck : Trump-Appointed FTC ...

2024-08-29
This is a really substantial and important decision, finally reading 230 as it was intended—and not extending immunity to algorithmically promoted content.
2024-08-29 View on X
Reuters

A US court rules TikTok must face a lawsuit over a 10-year-old's death and the “blackout challenge”, saying algorithmic curation isn't protected by Section 230

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/ 21... Daphne Keller / @daphnek.bsky.social : Now the 3rd Circuit is engaging in the absurd pretense that the Court actually decided this issue in Mo...

2024-07-02
So Netchoice loses big in three ways 1) They actually lose (Remand) 2) Kagan says that “Texas's asserted interest relates to the suppression of free expression” which is a finding not applicable to most laws 3) Barrett is the swing here and leaves a lot of room
2024-07-02 View on X
CBS News

SCOTUS orders lower courts to take another look at Texas' and Florida's social media laws, saying neither lower court conducted proper analysis of 1A challenges

The First Amendment was written in the 18th century … The Hill : Morning Report — Is a Trump election interference trial off the table? CCIA : Supreme Court Issues Ruling in CCIA, ...

The Netchoice remand today is a big win for the child social media laws being pushed around the country. Phew.
2024-07-02 View on X
CBS News

SCOTUS orders lower courts to take another look at Texas' and Florida's social media laws, saying neither lower court conducted proper analysis of 1A challenges

The First Amendment was written in the 18th century … The Hill : Morning Report — Is a Trump election interference trial off the table? CCIA : Supreme Court Issues Ruling in CCIA, ...

2024-06-17
The @Surgeon_General is telling everyone the extreme health and emotional dangers of social media for kids, and asking for phone-free schools AND design feature rules (no infinite scroll, filters, algorithmic addictions). https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-06-17 View on X
New York Times

The US Surgeon General says platforms should add a “warning label” saying that “social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents”

One of the most important lessons I learned in medical school was that in an emergency, you don't have the luxury to wait for perfect information.

2024-05-02
Brilliant lawsuit.
2024-05-02 View on X
Wired

Ethan Zuckerman sues to stop Meta from blocking his planned Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension that would let Facebook users tune or even turn off their Feed

Academic Ethan Zuckerman is suing Meta to win protections for add-ons that help researchers study the platform and give users more control over their feeds.

2024-03-21
I've warning of the threat of tech-enabled global influence campaigns since I was a baby law professor in 2009. And I went around talking Foreign Emoluments with anyone who would listen in 2016, 2017, 2018. We should understand the TikTok effort as part of the same piece.
2024-03-21 View on X
Axios

After a classified briefing on TikTok, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell says that “the next steps might be something more public, like a hearing”

- But Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not committed to putting the bill on the floor anytime soon.

This is only part of the piece, above, but I will say given my twitter friend crowd, be wary of the ways in which the First Amendment is increasingly rhetorically serving globalizing capital interests. Moving from libertarian to neoliberal.
2024-03-21 View on X
The Atlantic

The TikTok divestment bill fits into a long and important US tradition of forbidding a hostile foreign power from controlling a major communication platform

and I am thrilled to see Tai seeking—greater balance in trade, the peace that falls between the extremes, avoiding the 20th century tendency to take every notion (like interdepende...

We should seek—and I am thrilled to see Tai seeking—greater balance in trade, the peace that falls between the extremes, avoiding the 20th century tendency to take every notion (like interdependence) beyond its logical endpoint to something unstable and extreme dependence.
2024-03-21 View on X
The Atlantic

The TikTok divestment bill fits into a long and important US tradition of forbidding a hostile foreign power from controlling a major communication platform

and I am thrilled to see Tai seeking—greater balance in trade, the peace that falls between the extremes, avoiding the 20th century tendency to take every notion (like interdepende...

I've warning of the threat of tech-enabled global influence campaigns since I was a baby law professor in 2009. And I went around talking Foreign Emoluments with anyone who would listen in 2016, 2017, 2018. We should understand the TikTok effort as part of the same piece.
2024-03-21 View on X
The Atlantic

The TikTok divestment bill fits into a long and important US tradition of forbidding a hostile foreign power from controlling a major communication platform

and I am thrilled to see Tai seeking—greater balance in trade, the peace that falls between the extremes, avoiding the 20th century tendency to take every notion (like interdepende...

This is only part of the piece, above, but I will say given my twitter friend crowd, be wary of the ways in which the First Amendment is increasingly rhetorically serving globalizing capital interests. Moving from libertarian to neoliberal.
2024-03-21 View on X
Axios

After a classified briefing on TikTok, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell says that “the next steps might be something more public, like a hearing”

- But Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not committed to putting the bill on the floor anytime soon.

Me on TikTok: the idea that we must enact barriers to foreign-government surveillance and political interference is actually a very old one, embedded in both American history and the logic of democratic self-determination. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2024-03-21 View on X
Axios

After a classified briefing on TikTok, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell says that “the next steps might be something more public, like a hearing”

- But Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not committed to putting the bill on the floor anytime soon.

Me on TikTok: the idea that we must enact barriers to foreign-government surveillance and political interference is actually a very old one, embedded in both American history and the logic of democratic self-determination. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2024-03-21 View on X
The Atlantic

The TikTok divestment bill fits into a long and important US tradition of forbidding a hostile foreign power from controlling a major communication platform

and I am thrilled to see Tai seeking—greater balance in trade, the peace that falls between the extremes, avoiding the 20th century tendency to take every notion (like interdepende...

We should seek—and I am thrilled to see Tai seeking—greater balance in trade, the peace that falls between the extremes, avoiding the 20th century tendency to take every notion (like interdependence) beyond its logical endpoint to something unstable and extreme dependence.
2024-03-21 View on X
Axios

After a classified briefing on TikTok, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell says that “the next steps might be something more public, like a hearing”

- But Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not committed to putting the bill on the floor anytime soon.

2023-12-23
I love this article because it actually gets how Lina is one of the best listeners in government, not pose listening, open learning, “displaying a level of engagement and curiosity not typically seen on the Washington conference circuit” https://www.politico.com/... via @politico
2023-12-23 View on X
Politico

A profile of FTC Chair Lina Khan, who on a trip to Silicon Valley in November aimed to convince a skeptical tech sector that the government was there to help

FTC Chair Lina Khan's vast ambitions to cut back on corporate power could be a huge part of Biden's legacy — if they come to fruition. X: @chase_sutton99 , @caffar3cristina , @josh...

2023-12-21
FINALLY, some federal relief for children and parents from big tech exploitation! Kids under 13 will not get targeted advertising without parental consent, and those awful addictive push notifications—OFF!
2023-12-21 View on X
Washington Post

The US FTC proposes more data protections for kids, including making targeted ads for under-13s opt-in and banning using select data for kids push notifications

and where firms are deploying increasingly sophisticated digital tools to surveil children.'” Jules Polonetsky / @julespolonetsky : Just when you thought you could log off for the ...

2023-12-04
The gross corporate threat to free, open, inquisitive, research, to free speech at universities is exactly this fact pattern. Chilling.
2023-12-04 View on X
Washington Post

Disinformation scholar Joan Donovan claims in a whistleblower filing that her superiors dismissed her after Harvard got Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's $500M gift

In a whistleblower complaint, she breaks her silence over events that unsettled other misinformation researchers