WEDNESDAY @7pm ET We’re joining Media Justice, Muslims for Just Futures + other activists to discuss how Big Tech is supercharging the rising violence we’re seeing in free speech suppression and how to resist. RSVP here to join: https://mediajustice.zoom.us/meeting/register/azQp-Ew7RceAq1k-_jg1tg#/registration

Join the Action Hour tomorrow to hear updates from tech workers + organizers on a range of efforts targeting Big Tech's contracts with apartheid Israel –– including a Google shareholder resolution that will be voted on this Friday –– and take action with us to hold these companies accountable:

Fight for the Future

Stop Big Tech Complicity in Genocide & Apartheid

The FBI has re-upped a number of investigations claiming ‘potential public corruption’ without any apparent criminal violations or new evidence of federal statute violations- we've got some concerns. 🪡🧵 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/fbi-investigation-dobbs-leak-dc-pipe-bombs/

Many of you helped drive thousands of calls to lawmakers that helped defeat the nonprofit killer bill in the Fall AND in the budget package last week. We talked with Between the Lines' Counterpoint Radio about the ongoing threat #humanrights #freepalestine

As #bigtech continues to supply tools that fuel Israel's genocide of Palestinians, they’re also signing new contracts with U.S. weapons manufacturers + profiting from the mass deportations & surveillance dragnets that are terrorizing communities everywhere: https://medium.com/@notechforapartheid/statement-on-google-clouds-collaboration-with-lockheed-martin-19cd460d22d3

#Microsoft + fired #Google employees join forces to disrupt Build conference calling out #bigtech for enabling the genocide of Palestinians.

The Verge

Microsoft employee disrupts Satya Nadella’s keynote with ‘Free Palestine’ protest

Microsoft employees keep protesting the company’s contracts with Israel

We knew FCC Chair Benjamin Carr, co-author of # project2025, would use his perch to help billionaires + authoritarians while abandoning the agency’s actual mission of protecting the public interest. We applaud FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez for calling him out 👏 https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/media/fcc-anna-gomez-rips-weaponized-agency-brendan-carr-trump

Unfortunately we're about to see the worst, repressive ways this legislation can be used.

WIRED

Trump Signs Controversial Law Targeting Nonconsensual Sexual Content

The Take It Down Act requires platforms to remove instances of “intimate visual depiction” within two days. Free speech advocates warn it could...

NONPROFIT KILLER BILL UPDATE: It's complicated, but so far the chaos is working in our favor...

Al Jazeera

Measure targeting pro-Palestine NGOs disappears from US tax bill

Legislation would have allowed the executive branch to crack down on

Here’s your digital rights download with highlights you might’ve missed this past week.

Big Tech companies are aligned with the Trump administration, fueling mass deportations and arrests of political dissenters.

The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI – Mother Jones

‼️Language from the 2024 nonprofit killer bill was approved in House budget-reconciliation this morning 👎 We name some of the risks of this "terribly thought-out" legislation to vulnerable communities:

AP News

House Republicans look to help Trump strip tax-exempt status of nonprofits he says support terrorism

A proposal by Republicans in Congress would allow President Donald Trump's administration to remove the tax-exempt status of nonprofits that it say...

TODAY: Media Justice is hosting an event to recap their Youtube series on how Tech Broligarchs have entrenched their power.

Zoom

Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and web...

WE NEED CALLS NOW! HR 9495, now known as Section 112209, if passed, would give the Trump administration unprecedented power in suppressing nonprofits, by allowing the administration the power to strip organizations of their tax exempt status! Call 319-313-7674

"DHS immigration enforcement has blurred the lines between criminal enforcement + national security. Every international traveler is a potential criminal or terrorist, justifying mass surveillance."

The Verge

Border agents are going to photograph everyone leaving the US by car

There’s no set timeline for when this will happen.