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Urge the Senate to rescind funding for ICE — and oppose any new funding for the agency — before more innocent people are detained, more families are separated and more lives are lost.
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Stay loud!
Urge the Senate to rescind funding for ICE — and oppose any new funding for the agency — before more innocent people are detained, more families are separated and more lives are lost.
ADD your name: www.freepress.net/get-involved...
The message behind their money is clear:
“Give us military and surveillance contracts and we’ll help spread Trump’s authoritarian gospel to billions of people who use our platforms every day.”
More from FP's @timkarr.bsky.social:
www.freepress.net/blog/big-tec...
Musk remains a loyal soldier.
Musk’s artificial-intelligence venture, xAI, has been actively pursuing government contracts and in July 2025 secured a deal worth up to $200 million to help the Pentagon adopt advanced artificial-intelligence capabilities.
From Axios: www.axios.com/2025/07/14/x...
Despite pledging that he would not allow anyone to use company technology to harm people, Google CEO Sundar Pichai is now seeking profits in destruction.
From BBC as Google staff call to cut ties with ICE: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Jeff Bezos-owned companies are already making billions doing business with the CIA, the Department of Defense, the Department of the Interior and the NSA.
Amazon technology hosts many of the systems that DHS and ICE use to spy on US residents.
From Bloomberg:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta once touted language in its corporate policies banning the use of its AI in weapons.
It has since removed such wording, allowing it to profit from using its virtual-reality glasses to train soldiers for battle.
From Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/davidj...
Who's cashing in on Trump's $1 TRILLION defense budget?
TL;DR: Big Tech.
Meta, Amazon, Google and X/SpaceX, have a cumulative worth of > $9 trillion, with annual profits in the hundreds of billions. But they always see fit to feast on Trump's military ambitions.
Let's break it down.
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Kristi Noem is an enemy of free speech.
She expanded surveillance. She targeted reporters. And she labeled critics “domestic terrorists.”
Regardless of which Trump crony is nominated next, we’re calling on Congress to stop funding DHS.
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"He who controls the media controls the minds of the public." - Noam Chomsky
05.03.2026 13:52 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0We @freepress.bsky.social just released a statement condemning the ICE arrest and detention of Estefany Rodriguez and call for her immediate release. More coalition pressure coming in the hours and days ahead: www.freepress.net/news/free-pr...
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Stay loud!
Urge the Senate to rescind funding for ICE — and oppose any new funding for the agency — before more innocent people are detained, more families are separated and more lives are lost.
ADD your name: www.freepress.net/get-involved...
"Dictatorships snuff out a free press to terrorize independent journalists and decimate the public’s ability to know what’s happening. Trump consistently targets our most vocal and vulnerable voices to do just that." - @attorneynora.bsky.social
More on the arrest of journalist Estefany Rodriguez:
DHS sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on ICE, officials and tech workers said.
More from @nytimes.com:
Kristi Noem is an enemy of free speech.
She expanded surveillance. She targeted reporters. And she labeled critics “domestic terrorists.”
Regardless of which Trump crony is nominated next, we’re calling on Congress to stop funding DHS.
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Free Press condemns immigration officials for the targeting, arrest and detention of journalist Estefany Rodriguez, a reporter with Nashville Noticias.
ICE's targeting of Rodriguez is a violation of her First Amendment rights as a member of the media.
Our statement:
Nashville reporter's detention by federal immigration officials poses grave threat to press freedom and the public’s right to know. A thread on Estefany Rodriguez: www.freepress.net/news/free-pr...
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We don’t yet know if Estefany Rodríguez’s detention was in retaliation for her reporting but we certainly wouldn’t be surprised.
ICE abductions of noncitizen journalists take the reporters best equipped to cover immigration enforcement off the beat.
Having worked for months on Mario Guevara’s case, I am worried but not surprised: the Trump admin has been courting lawless violations of due process & free speech since he entered office the first time. Worse than ever now. Cc @freepress.bsky.social @pressfreedom.bsky.social @freedom.press
05.03.2026 23:52 — 👍 47 🔁 31 💬 0 📌 1
Launch graphic for MediaJustice's NEW report, "Media Capture: Who Controls the Story Controls the Future." A tech oligarch hand reaches down, picking up a TV icon representing CNN to add to their collection. The hand is filled with rings emblematic of other media (CBS, TikTok, Paramount Skydance, and TIME) and bracelets (MGM Studios, The Atlantic, The Washington Post). Below the hand is a receipt machine printing a sales receipt for Paramount ($8B), Washington Post ($250M), Time ($190M), MGM Studios ($8.5B), and The Atlantic ($100M). Below is the report bitly link "bit.ly/mediacapturereport".
Today, we’re releasing our NEW #report, Media Capture: Who Controls the Story Controls the Future. 📱💥
#Media is NOT neutral. Our report maps how #Tech Oligarchs are capturing the media ecosystem through ownership, monetary power, and platform control.
bit.ly/mediacapturereport
Government agents are collecting unprecedented amounts of personal data with little-to-no oversight or accountability from Big Tech.
The ICE Out of Our Faces Act stops the use facial recognition and other biometric-surveillance technologies.
Learn more: pressingissues.org/ed-markey-wa...
Our Head of Programs, Jacinta González dives into how political donations have secured #Palantir's business model and how two representatives shut these bribes down. @denverpost.com
www.denverpost.com/2026/02/20/p...
"As we enter yet another war where too many innocent lives have already been lost, we’re no closer to having a media system that holds the powerful to account. But holding the line on further media consolidation is a critical step toward building one." - @jgo4justice.bsky.social
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Trump's strategy to consolidate the media into the hands of right-wing oligarchs and to — as Steve Bannon would say — “flood the zone with shit" is straight out of the authoritarian playbook.
@jgo4justice.bsky.social's warning as we face another senseless war:
➡️ www.freepress.net/blog/warning...
Free Press co-CEO @jgo4justice.bsky.social joined Ian Masters of @ianmastersmedia.bsky.social to discuss how right wing Trump-friendly billionaires are buying up mainstream media.
Listen in: https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/bbriefing_2026_03_01c_jessica-gonzalez-1
This merger pushes America's fragile news ecosystem further towards right-wing propaganda.
"Our democracy is endangered by giving a family of pliant billionaires even more control of our news coverage, TV stations, and movie studios." - @notaaroncraig.bsky.social via @the-ringer.bsky.social
"Rather than challenge a dictatorial regime, they’ve contributed tens of millions of dollars to Trump’s presidential campaign, inaugural ceremonies and other schemes, with execs regularly Lear-jetting to Mar-a-Lago to offer support and curry favor." - @timkarr.bsky.social in "Big Tech Goes to War"
04.03.2026 20:46 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
⚠️ Beware of the military-technological complex.
Musk, Bezos, Google, & Musk send a clear message to Trump: Give us military and surveillance contracts and we'll help spread your authoritarian gospel to billions of people every day.
@timkarr.bsky.social explain:
www.freepress.net/blog/big-tec...
“Trump wants to control the news and his justice department has been largely purged of anyone who might ask too many questions of a deal like this.” - @notaaroncraig.bsky.social via @theguardian.com
03.03.2026 14:16 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
We were joined by @jgo4justice.bsky.social, Co-CEO of @freepress.bsky.social, discussing how right wing Trump-friendly billionaires buying up the mainstream media. soundcloud.com/user-8304426...
03.03.2026 21:09 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is a grave threat to democracy — especially in a time of war.
More here:
https://www.freepress.net/blog/warning-about-media-consolidation-paramount-wbd-time-of-war
