The Citizens

The Citizens

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We expose Big Tech's harms to democracy. Parents to The Real Facebook Oversight Board & Independent Sage. Our newsletters: https://dispatch.the-citizens.com citizensreunited.substack.com You can also find us at https://the-citizens.com

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Max Colbert
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🔴 NEW: My latest, for @the-citizens.bsky.social, on the growing actions from individual departments, parties and politicians wanting to provide alternatives communicating via Elon Musk's platform, amid inaction from central government:

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“Government is reinforcing national reliance on X while complaining about its decision to promote extremist content.” Jim Killock of @openrightsgroup.org speaks to the Citizens as calls for governmental ‘X-odus’ grow 👇 dispatch.the-citizens.com/calls-for-a-...

dispatch.the-citizens.comCalls for a governmental ‘X-odus’ grow as evidence of social harm mountsWith more politicians abandoning X, pressure is growing on the UK government to explore alternatives
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“A model of user empowerment and control is how we can create social media diversity, rather than ceding control to technofeudal overlords.” Jim Killock of @openrightsgroup.org speaks to Citizens as calls for governmental ‘X-odus’ grow citizensreunited.substack.com/p/calls-for-...

citizensreunited.substack.comCalls for a governmental ‘X-odus’ grow as evidence of social harm mountsWith more politicians abandoning X, pressure is growing on the UK government to explore alternatives
The Citizens
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“Government is reinforcing national reliance on X while complaining about its decision to promote extremist content.” Jim Killock of @openrightsgroup.org speaks to the Citizens as calls for governmental ‘X-odus’ grow 👇 dispatch.the-citizens.com/calls-for-a-...

dispatch.the-citizens.comCalls for a governmental ‘X-odus’ grow as evidence of social harm mountsWith more politicians abandoning X, pressure is growing on the UK government to explore alternatives
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How did Musk amass so much power—and why did we give it to him? Watch the interview from @democracynow.org www.democracynow.org/2026/10/13/m...

democracynow.org“Musk”: Alex Gibney on New Film, Legal Threats & Elon Musk Spending $366M to Help GOP in MidtermsWe speak with the Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney about his new documentary Musk, an expansive, nearly four-hour examination of the world’s first trillionaire and how he has amassed…
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Britain's AI minister Kanishka Narayan appears confident that existing laws can address the risks of artificial superintelligence. But Labour MP @alexsobel.co.uk is taking a different approach ⤵️ citizensreunited.substack.com/p/trumps-ai-...

citizensreunited.substack.comTrump’s AI theatre distracts from regulatory failure on both sides of the AtlanticAs Trump rebrands AI and leaves tech firms to police themselves, Britain is relying on a patchwork of existing laws - despite its ambitions to lead the world
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As previously reported by @thenerve.news, the company has hired more than 30 people with experience and knowledge of government.  www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-r...

thenerve.newsThe Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel's surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officialsThe AI company holds £670m in UK government contracts. It has also hired dozens of senior officials from the departments awarding them – raising what transparency experts call an 'acute' corruption…
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"Here’s their latest hire, a Labour lord, [inferring to] his former colleague that they are actively surveilling his activities. It’s obviously a threat." Our Director Clara Maguire in @thenerve.news 👇 www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...

thenerve.news'We’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising PalantirIn a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole…