Elie Mystal Sheila P 🌻🇺🇦🌻 Democracy and Truth Matter ✅️

Last year CA passed the Age-Appropriate Design Code—my first-in-the-nation bill to protect kids online. Now other states are replicating it, w/fierce pushback from Big Tech. But momentum is on our side, because the status quo is unacceptable. More pluribusnews.com/news-and-event…

Huge welcome to the Core Team of Design It For Us - looking forward to hearing more from all of you!

In the coming weeks, state lawmakers in Maryland, Minnesota, and Nevada will decide whether they pass much-needed protections for kids online. It’s critical that they pass the Age Appropriate Design Code. pluribusnews.com/news-and-event…

News: NPR becomes first major news org to stop using Twitter, saying that the Elon Musk-owned platform “is taking actions that undermine our credibility.” “We are not putting our journalism on platforms that have demonstrated an interest in undermining our credibility…”

#MNLeg you can do this. Time to pass the minnesotakidscode.com

“It starts in the design phase before the harm to your children can be done.” Thank you, Kristin Bahner, for standing up to the Big Tech lobby and urging the #MNLeg to do the same and pass the #MNKidsCode. minnesotakidscode.com

In Minnesota, opponents of the proposed Age Appropriate Design Code Act included the CEO of the Star Tribune newspaper, Steve Grove, who had previously served as the director of Google News Lab. minnesotareformer.com/2023/04/28/sta… Winter

News outlets are manufacturing anti-Pride sentiment. Advertisers need to defund them thedrum.com/opinion/2023/0… via The Drum

A much needed message in this moment.

📌New reports out by ADL and Tim Poirier on the rise in anti-semitic content on big tech platforms and how they contribute to online hate.

A 3 Act Play Featuring Google: - Fund NetChoice’s war on kids - Have them sue to take away digital protections from kids - Lie about it by saying you support the “good AADC models” Google was suing all along

Worth following Frances Haugen and her take on today’s Senate Judiciary Hearing on social media/Instagram and the most recent FB a whistleblower to come forward.

Well, if I was working at one of Elon's companies and somehow hadn't already quit, this would certainly be the tweet that got me the hell out of there.

We're here in Minnesota and so excited to rally today at the State Capitol for the #MNKidsCode!

With fear for our Democracy, I dissent.

For now, I'm choosing to believe Kamala Harris will follow the will of the people and reject the false dichotomy tech wants us to believe: that protecting consumer interests will stifle innovation. That's wrong and just plain old unimaginative. We deserve more. /end

1. Let's talk about Jeff Bezos's manipulation of the Washington Post for political purposes to help Trump and what this choice is causing Democrats to realize. For a long time, there's been a debate over the merits of big business and billionaires. x.com/mikiebarb/stat…

Some people seem to have forgotten how bad a president Trump was, so I made a list of the 100 Worst Things About the Trump Presidency, in no particular order. Please share and add anything I missed. 🧵