Charlotte Clymer

Opinion | An Anti-A.I. Movement Is Coming. Which Party Will Lead It?

"One major question, going into 2026, is which party will speak for the Americans who abhor the incursions of AI into their lives and want to see its reach restricted. Another is whether widespread public hostility to [AI] even matters given all the money behind it." - @michellegoldberg.bsky.social

Top 30 Most Read Pieces on Tech Policy Press in 2025 | TechPolicy.Press In 2025, Tech Policy Press published over 1,100 posts, including articles, analyses, perspectives, transcripts, trackers, podcasts, and more.

Our volunteer community of contributors, our fellows, and our staff covered a wide range of tech policy matters on nearly every continent in 2025. We’re grateful to everyone who contributed to this shared resource. Below are the most-read items from the year. buff.ly/Jw5QGIU

Opinion | One of America’s Most Successful Experiments Is Coming to a Shuddering Halt

"Most Americans have quite positive views of Indian Americans. But the combination of anti-Indian rhetoric and government visa policies — not least the chaos that has enveloped the H-1B visa — has already had a powerful chilling effect." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

Trump Admin Scores Visa for Founder of Russian Propaganda Outlet Tenet Media’s Lauren Chen is back—even though the illegal-influence and money-laundering investigation remains open.

Exclusive: A year after Tenet Media was busted for funneling Russian money to MAGA pundits like Benny Johnson and Tim Pool, a Trump administration effort involving State and the FBI has welcomed Tenet's founders back into the US. @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-che...

Top 30 Most Read Pieces on Tech Policy Press in 2025 | TechPolicy.Press In 2025, Tech Policy Press published over 1,100 posts, including articles, analyses, perspectives, transcripts, trackers, podcasts, and more.

💪 As part of my tech accountability work at @glaad.bsky.social — my piece: "LinkedIn Joins Meta and YouTube in Abandoning Policies Designed to Counter Anti-Trans Hate" lands at #26 on the @techpolicypress.bsky.social Top 30 most-read pieces of 2025! www.techpolicy.press/top-30-most-...

Does everyone yell when someone says the word?

Tech Billionaires Threaten To Flee California Over Proposed Vest Tax

Tech Billionaires Threaten To Flee California Over Proposed Vest Tax https://theonion.com/tech-billionaires-threaten-to-flee-california-over-proposed-vest-tax/

Top 15 Most Listened Tech Policy Press Podcasts in 2025 | TechPolicy.Press Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. We publish opinion and analysis.

Did you know the Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social) podcast episode feat. Fordham Law Prof. Olivier Sylvain (@oliviersylvain.bsky.social) was one of the most listened-to episodes in 2025?

Re-listen to the episode where Sylvain discusses Trump's executive order to block state AI laws:

AI Chatbots Linked to Psychosis, Say Doctors People and their AI companions are entering into shared delusions, doctors say, and chatbots can be “complicit.”

"Top psychiatrists increasingly agree that using AI chatbots might be linked to cases of psychosis. In the past nine months, these experts have seen or reviewed the files of dozens of patients who exhibited symptoms following prolonged, delusion-filled conversations with the AI tools."

EU will lose ‘race to the bottom’ on regulation, says competition chief Teresa Ribera says Europe’s competitiveness depends on resisting calls to roll back rules

"Europe must defend its regulatory system more forcefully in order to remain globally competitive, the EU’s competition chief has said in a call to resist pressure from Donald Trump and those lobbying for change at home."

How Vance brokered a truce between Trump and Musk As Trump’s first year in office comes to a close, both he and his Trump world allies have learned hard lessons about Musk’s unusual influence.

"Though Musk is unpredictable, he is also a formidable ally. With his nearly unlimited resources and unmatched digital megaphone, Musk could prove a powerful asset to the MAGA movement once Trump leaves the stage."

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Giving a kid a phone before this age can be especially harmful, research suggests A wave of new studies is shedding light on the risks of early smartphone access and heavy screen use for adolescent mental health and development.

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Giving a kid a phone before this age can be especially harmful, research suggests A wave of new studies is shedding light on the risks of early smartphone access and heavy screen use for adolescent mental health and development.

"A wave of large-scale studies is quantifying how early smartphone access and heavy screen use can harm adolescent minds — and the findings are aligning in a way earlier research rarely did. The numbers suggest screens are taking a broader, deeper toll on teens than many expected."

Requested a correction from @princetonupress.bsky.social. Let's see what happens.

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable…

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.”

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Beware of OpenAI's 'Grantwashing' on AI Harms | TechPolicy.Press J. Nathan Matias and Avriel Epps say OpenAI's announced research funding is the perfect corporate action to make sure we don't find answers for years.

Catching up late on this from @natematias.bsky.social and Avriel Epps. As federally funded grants to study these issues disappear, another case of a company offering "measly" grants that at best will offer limited insights while hurting researcher credibility.

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Opinion | Marco Rubio is using real censorship to fight fake censorship Mike Masnick: In the name of protecting free speech, the U.S. government just banned five Europeans from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech.

Wrote about the State Department's made up censorial rationale for banning visas for some folks based on their speech. It's nonsense.

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Zelenskiy says Russia using Belarus territory to circumvent Ukrainian defences President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that Russia was using ordinary apartment blocks on the territory of its ally Belarus to attack Ukrainian targets and circumvent Kyiv's defences.

NEWS OF THE DAY:

RUSSIA USES BELARUS TO BYPASS AIR DEFENSES: Zelenskyy has accused Russia of using Belarusian apartment buildings to station equipment that helps guide drones around Ukrainian air defenses, reported by Reuters.

Top 30 Most Read Pieces on Tech Policy Press in 2025 | TechPolicy.Press In 2025, Tech Policy Press published over 1,100 posts, including articles, analyses, perspectives, transcripts, trackers, podcasts, and more.

In 2025, Tech Policy Press published over 1,100 posts, including articles, analyses, perspectives, transcripts, trackers, podcasts, and more. Our volunteer community of contributors, our fellows, and our staff covered a wide range of tech policy matters on nearly every continent. We're grateful!

Ask The Experts: Teaching Disability Rights and Technology in 2025 | TechPolicy.Press Ariana Aboulafia spoke to experts about how Trump’s policies are chilling the the academic study of tech's impact on society.

Tech Policy Press Fellow Ariana Aboulafia highlights the perspectives of four professors teaching at the intersection of disability rights and technology on their experiences under the Trump Administration’s policies targeting higher education, including lost research support and chilled classrooms.

New Study Examines Features and Policies for 29 AI ‘Undressing’ Apps | TechPolicy.Press Tim Bernard looks at findings from a new paper by Kaylee Williams published in the journal Violence Against Women.

In a new paper in the journal Violence Against Women, researcher Kaylee Williams examines a set of “nudify” apps through the lens of tech-facilitated gender-based violence, evaluating their affordances, marketing material, and policies. Tim Bernard unpacks the findings:

New York to require social media platforms to display mental health warnings Social media platforms with infinite scrolling, auto-play and algorithmic feeds will be required to display warning labels about their potential harm to young users’ mental health under a new law, New...

"Social media platforms with infinite scrolling, auto-play and algorithmic feeds will be required to display warning labels about their potential harm to young users’ mental health under a new law, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Friday."

Data centres turn to aircraft engines to avoid grid connection delays Supply chain shortages drive developers to use smaller and less efficient power sources to fuel AI power demand

"Manufacturers of aeroderivative turbines — which are based on or made from jet engines — and diesel generators have reported increased demand because of data centres seeking to bypass the grid as they wait for larger gas turbines."

States See a Federal Power Grab in Clash Over AI Data Centers The Trump administration wants to control how data centers connect to the power grid.

'Companies such as Trump Media & Technology Group and Alphabet-backed fusion-energy company TAE Technologies, which agreed to a $6 billion merger, are betting the data-center boom will continue for years."

Good to see the Journal center the fact that Trump has a direct interest in the AI boom.

Christmas attack on civilians in Kyiv. Sure, the Russians want peace

"'Please don’t leave the noose out,' ChatGPT replied, according to the lawsuit. 'Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you,' it added, appearing to suggest that no one in Adam’s life had understood him except for the chatbot."
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Government Officials Once Stopped False Accusations After Violence. Now, Some Join In.

Good article, but I think we could add that many of the current government officials & influencers spreading political point-scoring falsehoods during crisis events HAVE BECOME gov officials & influencers BECAUSE of their bullshit-spreading talents. System effects of rotten attention dynamics.

ICE Agents Arrest Man on Christmas Eve—and Then Steal His Groceries Trump’s immigration agents are doing whatever they want.

"Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers in Yakima, Washington, spent Christmas Eve arresting a man in a Walmart parking lot—even taking his already purchased groceries for themselves."

AI boom adds $500bn to net worth of US tech billionaires in 2025 Elon Musk stays on top as Nvidia’s Jensen Huang powers up the rankings on an AI-fuelled surge in fortunes

"The top 10 US tech founders and chief executives possessed nearly $2.5tn in cash, equity and other investments at the close of trading in New York on Christmas Eve, according to Bloomberg data."