We @freepress.bsky.social are joining a tremendous slate of experts & officials this week. Tune in for @jgo4justice.bsky.social Thursday ahead of the Oscars where we'll be discussing media power, mergers, AI, creativity & more: thecapitolforum.com/events/the-c...
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Join us THIS THURSDAY at 6PM ET | 3PM PT for the LIVE launch of NEW report.
We'll expose the Tech Oligarchs’ agenda with experts:
💥 Janine Jackson at @fairmediawatch.bsky.social
💥 Alicia Bell at @borealisphil.bsky.social
💥 Joe Torres at @freepress.bsky.social
bit.ly/mediacapturelaunch
"If the goal is to serve the public interest, more media consolidation is never the answer." - @timkarr.bsky.social
Read more from Tim on Five Ways the Paramount-WBD Merger Is Bad News for Us All: www.freepress.net/blog/five-wa...
5️⃣ More media-industry layoffs
As the Ellisons move to take control, concerns are ricocheting across the industry.
To help secure financing, Paramount Skydance needs to cut $16 billion over the next 18 months, a figure that likely translates to thousands of pink slips.
3️⃣ + 4️⃣ More propaganda. Even less diversity. This is bad for everyone.
Consolidated media buckles to pressure. Big Media reflects a narrow, unquestioning, pro-corporate view of the world.
FP's @attorneynora.bsky.social documents Trump’s war on free speech in 2025: www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...
2️⃣ Less accountability, especially during wartime.
The business side of Big Media loves a war.
When consolidated media cover for authoritarianism rather than expose it, powerful interests censor the truth.
Read @timkarr.bsky.social's Big Tech Goes to War: www.freepress.net/blog/big-tec...
1️⃣ Massive mergers mean higher prices and less consumer choice.
In January, Free Press Action’s @mattfieldwood.bsky.social testified on how the harms of massive media mergers eliminates choice before a House Judiciary subcommittee.
Read Matt's remarks: www.freepress.net/news/media-m...
Good news for Trump is bad news for our democracy and the constitutional rights that safeguard us from tyranny.
With so much at stake, @timkarr.bsky.social examines the serious consequences of a merger that allows one family to manipulate so much of our media.
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Last Wednesday, US tech companies gathered at the White House to sign a nonbinding, unenforceable pledge to offset data center energy costs. But energy bills are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the costs of hyperscale data centers people see in their backyards, writes Jenna Ruddock.
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Just six months ago, Trump was trumpeting his executive order to speed up data center construction and permitting.
Now, Big Tech's gargantuan infrastructure projects face bipartisan backlash from coast to coast.
New from @ruddock.bsky.social via @techpolicypress.bsky.social:
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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⚠️ 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...
Free Press staffers are working hard to defend the First Amendment at a time of government crackdowns. More in our latest View from the Field post:
https://www.freepress.net/blog/view-field-confronting-press-freedom-crackdowns
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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