Tech & Free Speech
Musk Fires Back at Khanna's Subpoena Demand Over USAID Cuts
A congressman demands state power against a private citizen for dismantling a foreign aid slush fund.
June 24, 2026
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Big Tech, censorship, AI.
Tech & Free Speech tracks Big Tech power, censorship, deplatforming, surveillance, and AI — the fight for free speech online and in the public square. Every story ties platform policy to real-world consequences for users and publishers.
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Instagram Hits Samsung TVs: Zuck's Newest Living Room Spy
Meta's quiet push into smart TVs puts another data-harvesting outpost right in your living room.
June 24, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
SpaceX Scores $6.3B AI Compute Deal While Washington Demands Regulation
SpaceX leases AI compute capacity while Washington talks regulation — proving infrastructure builders win while incumbents fall behind.
June 23, 2026
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Meta Straps Surveillance Cameras to Your Face for $299
The censorship giant that tracks your every click now wants to record what you see — and the press is cheering the specs.
June 23, 2026
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Meta's Unelected Board Demands AI Deepfake Takedowns, Expands Censorship Reach
An unelected global tribunal wants to treat all AI impersonation as non-consensual by default — and decide what you're allowed to see online.
June 23, 2026
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Meta Pauses Employee Spyware After Exposing Workers' Private Data to Entire Company
The 'Model Capability Initiative' tracked every keystroke and cursor twitch of Meta's own staff — then left all that data readable by every employee in the company.
June 23, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Khanna Demands Musk Testify After 'Killing Millions' Charge
A congressman wants Musk hauled before Congress and onto live TV — because DOGE dared to ask where your money went.
June 23, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Google Drops $75 Million Into A24 to Shape AI Filmmaking
Big Tech's censorship empire expands from your search bar to the silver screen.
June 22, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
X Goes Dark, Proving Free Speech Hangs on Someone Else's Servers
Monday's outage silenced tens of thousands of Americans and exposed the single point of failure threatening online free speech.
June 22, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
SpaceX IPO Bags Record Retail Cash, Rated Same As Putin's Russia
Unprofitable Musk empire bags $117M from mom-and-pop traders on day one as governance scores hit rock bottom.
June 22, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Cloudflare Outage Silences X, 1,400 Services: Your Speech on Their Servers
A single Cloudflare failure knocked out the digital town square, proving your free speech lives on someone else's server.
June 22, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Thief Stole Teacher's Identity, Bought a BMW. The System Did Nothing.
A California teacher's identity was stolen wholesale. The same institutions tracking your every move couldn't protect her—or fix it.
June 22, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Musk: Bitcoin Is Your AI Lifeline. His Company Holds 18,712 Coins.
The world's richest man says crypto is the answer to an AI crisis he's hyping — and his own company already holds 18,712 Bitcoin.
June 21, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Musk's Trillion-Dollar SpaceX Valuation Hinges on Orbital AI Promises He Can't Keep
SpaceX needs orbital AI to justify a trillion-dollar valuation. The ground-side factory alone hits $119 billion—while working Americans struggle to pay rent.
June 21, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Apple and Amazon's Prime Day Pact Isn't a Deal—It's a Leash
Two trillion-dollar giants are slashing prices to lock you into their digital cages.
June 21, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Brands Swap Human Influencers for AI Fakes, Hide It With NDAs
Corporations are replacing human pitchmen with algorithmic fakes—and using NDAs to ensure you never find out.
June 21, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Google Wants Your Living Room and Security Keys. Proton Offers an Exit.
Google's always-listening AI speaker enters your home as its Authenticator holds your digital keys. Proton's open-source alternative lets you take them back.
June 21, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Google's Android Updates Create Two-Tier System: Pixels Feast, Rivals Get Scraps
Quarterly updates were supposed to fix fragmentation. Google turned them into a monopoly tool.
June 20, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Norway Bans AI for Kids While U.S. Pols Censor Adults
Norway shields kids from Big Tech algorithms while Washington targets adult dissent.
June 20, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Google Silently Patches Android Auto, Tells Users Nothing
Vague changelog, zero explanation — Big Tech's idea of accountability when your car connection dies.
June 20, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Nobel AI Researcher Jumps to Anthropic as Tech Giants Consolidate Power
John Jumper's exit from DeepMind is the second landmark departure in 48 hours—and Washington still isn't asking who controls the AI shaping American lives.
June 20, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Meta Pressures Congress for Lawsuit Immunity Amid Child-Harm Verdicts
Big Tech wants KOSA rewritten to shield itself from the families its platforms harmed.
June 20, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
SpaceX Hits $2.4T Valuation on Orbital AI Promises, Taxpayers Foot the Bill
SpaceX burns billions while hitting record valuation as Big Tech eyes orbit to dodge Earth's laws and accountability.
June 19, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Federal Court Upholds Ohio Law: Big Tech Must Get Parents' Consent for Kids
Meta, TikTok, and YouTube fought to keep mining kids' data without parental consent. They lost.
June 19, 2026
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