Project Liberty
Project Liberty builds solutions that help people take back control of their lives in the digital age by reclaiming a voice, choice, and stake in a better internet. Find out more at https://projectliberty.io.
- As we near the 1 year mark (May 15th) since Project Liberty announced its bid for US TikTok, Frank McCourt explained at the @semafor.com World Economy Summit that Project Liberty was not established “to buy TikTok.” It’s about reengineering the internet so that we control our identity and our data.
- In this week’s newsletter, we cover the latest news on OpenAI’s legal saga as a way to understand Public Benefit Corporations (PBCs). What are they? Why are tech companies choosing this new legal structure? And does it represent a shift in how technology is governed? 🗞️https://tinyurl.com/3mjvva75
- Vint Cerf, Google's Chief Internet Evangelist, asked, “[How] can we re-empower the people who are relying on the internet and want to contribute to it?” at Project Liberty’s Summit on the Future of the Internet this past fall. Watch the full panel: youtu.be/bNGJTuO44JI?...
- 💡Does regulation always hinder innovation? Or are there certain conditions where regulation can enable innovation? This week’s Project Liberty newsletter examines the relationship between tech regulation and tech innovation. email.projectliberty.io/tech-regulat...
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- “The idea that everyone on earth could own their #data could unlock the most incredible explosion of innovation, wealth creation & prosperity for all.” – Michael J. Casey on Making Waves 🎙️ ✅ 2nd that! (More Making Waves episodes coming soon—featuring builders+thinkers of the next internet era💡)
- Today, Project Liberty Institute and the Global Solutions Initiative launched “Digital Infrastructure Solutions to Empower Citizens: A Toolkit for Policymakers Designing, Scoping and Governing Digital Infrastructure to Advance Data Agency” at the 2025 Global Solutions Summit. ⬇️ bit.ly/4lYJsXg
- Project Liberty Founder Frank McCourt spoke at @semafor.com's World Economy Summit, outlining the vision behind the tech we create, including curating your favorite algorithms. #data #algorithms #decentralized
- In this week’s Project Liberty newsletter, we explore the unintended consequences of Europe’s digital regulations and examine the role of digital sovereignty in a world increasingly shaped by technology and territorial geopolitics. email.projectliberty.io/has-europe-o...
- Project Liberty has developed an open protocol—a potential standard for social networking and social media—to create the People's Internet. It’s called decentralized social networking protocol (DSNP) and is stewarded by Project Liberty Institute, a 501(c)(3). More at: www.projectliberty.io/dsnp/
- 🎧Project Liberty Institute's Paul Fehlinger explored the future of responsible investment in #AI, why today’s developments are just the tip of the iceberg, and what new investment opportunities lie ahead on The StepStone Group's RPM podcast. www.stepstonegroup.com/news-insight...
- Got a minute? That's enough time for Project Liberty Institute CEO @sheilaw.bsky.social's Lightning Talk, which she gave at @thedrc.bsky.social's Decentralized Tech Summit earlier this month. In it, she lays out the role of policy in the push for decentralization. 📹 Watch full talk: bit.ly/3YfxgY2
- With all the headlines about the antitrust cases against Big Tech companies like Google and Meta, it can be helpful to zoom out and see the bigger picture. In this week’s newsletter, we explore the latest news and what it could mean for the future of the internet. bit.ly/4d3XvqN
- 📣 Frequency, created by the team at Project Liberty Labs, is launching a new series called “We’re Making Waves With.” The first show premieres Thursday, April 24, at 10:30 AM ET and will focus on the question: Who Owns Your Voice in the Age of AI? Watch it live and set a reminder: bit.ly/42REV1n
- At Project Liberty, we emphasize language that conveys people's voice, choice, and stake in creating a better internet. Here’s the short version of what we mean. Learn more at projectliberty.io.
- Are you tired of the “barrage of information you’re constantly getting” from Big Tech? In a talk at Grace Cathedral, Project Liberty Institute CEO @sheilaw.bsky.social points out the problem with platforms extracting our data, selling it to advertisers, and serving content we didn’t request.
- We agree on keeping humans involved in AI design decisions! The Project Liberty Alliance hosted a Pop-Up event for members, featuring @miyazono.bsky.social from Alliance member @atlascomputing.bsky.social, focused on enabling democratic safeguards in AI. Learn more about the Alliance: bit.ly/3RUTSJI
- Wednesday inspiration.
- In this week's Project Liberty newsletter, we explore the data privacy implications of 23andMe's bankruptcy filing, what it means for consumers, specific steps you can take today, and the implications for the future of data privacy. email.projectliberty.io/your-dna-is-...
- We just made a Starter Pack of Project Liberty Alliance Members on Bluesky! Join our community. And if we forgot anyone, please DM! go.bsky.app/MDEcxJkat://did:plc:gwd3yocb44pbxaka6wwjtnca/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lmubw5emrr2f
- Utah’s Digital Choice Act, recently signed into law, is groundbreaking legislation that will transform our relationship with social media across America. More updates to come…. #socialmedia #onlinesafety #decentralized
- The Sustainable Media Center’s @sustainablemedia.bsky.social, a Project Liberty Alliance member, summarized Deja Foxx’s TED Talk. “Foxx positioned young people — particularly teenage girls — not as passive consumers of technology, but as its most innovative architects.” bit.ly/3ElRAQL
- 👀 DSNP co-founder and Head of Project Liberty Labs @tminusbraxton.bsky.social on the mainstage at Paris Blockchain Week.
- Last Friday, Governor Spencer Cox signed the Utah Digital Choice Act, granting individuals unprecedented control over their social media data. This is just the beginning. Blog: www.projectliberty.io/news/utah-di... and newsletter coverage: email.projectliberty.io/could-utahs-... Photos by Xin Xue
- Project Liberty Institute CEO @sheilaw.bsky.social recently spoke to Dean Malcolm Clemens Young at Grace Cathedral about our work. She perfectly summed up our current state: “We are not a user-centric internet. We are a platform-centric internet.” #socialmedia #socialgraph
- 💡 Project Liberty Institute recaps the key takeaways from last week's second high-level and multistakeholder consultation at Georgetown University in partnership with Global Solutions Initiative. www.projectliberty.io?p=1302&previ...
- 🗞️ Utah Governor Spencer Cox and Project Liberty Founder Frank McCourt co-authored an article in TIME about Utah's groundbreaking new Digital Choice Act, which grants individuals control over their data on social media platforms. time.com/7274854/soci...
- 👏To Project Liberty Institute Fellow @audreyt.org and our friend @glenweyl.bsky.social for their new paper on "Prosocial Media." 🗞️Read Tharin Pillay's coverage in TIME: time.com/7258238/soci... #socialmedia
- Project Liberty Institute and @thedrc.bsky.social convened 35 key stakeholders at Georgetown University on April 1, 2025, to discuss turning the promises of data cooperatives into actionable models (and more!). Read our takeaways and next steps. www.projectliberty.io/news/from-th...
- Don't miss this week's Project Liberty Newsletter, where we look at the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP), a public digital infrastructure protocol designed to reshape how power, control, and ownership function online. email.projectliberty.io/can-open-pro...
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- Hi! Short answer is yes! Longer post from @wesbiggs.bsky.social here: medium.com/one-frequenc...
- 1/10 Hello! We wanted to introduce ourselves. We are Project Liberty. Project Liberty is building an ecosystem to empower people to take back control of their digital lives by reclaiming a voice, choice, and stake in a better internet.
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View full thread9/10 If you are interested in shaping the future of DSNP, the governance working group is open to everyone. You can join monthly Working Group calls, express interest in becoming a steering committee member, launch a working group, or offer feedback at dsnpfeedback@projectliberty.io.
- 10/10 Finally, sign up for our weekly newsletter for insightful articles about the people, protocols, and possibilities of building a better tech future. www.projectliberty.io/alliance/#ne...
- 7/10 That’s the 101. Want to join us? If you work for an organization or company you think should be part of The Project Liberty Alliance, fill out this form: airtable.com/appY3s7V5NKg...
- 8/10 If you are a developer and want to learn more about building on Frequency, go here: www.frequency.xyz#developers
- 5/10 The Project Liberty Alliance consists of over 100 organizations—tech companies, policy groups, impact initiatives, academic institutions, and more—committed to a people-powered internet. This is our ecosystem…and it’s growing. www.projectliberty.io/alliance/
- 6/10 The non-profit Project Liberty Institute (PLI) and its global partners, including Georgetown University and Stanford University, are the stewards of DSNP, produce research, and facilitate conversations at events focusing on building a healthier tech ecosystem. www.projectliberty.io/institute/
- 3/10 Project Liberty consists of three main workstreams: Project Liberty Labs, the Project Liberty Alliance, and the non-profit Project Liberty Institute.
- 4/10 Project Liberty Labs developed technologies such as the Frequency blockchain (www.frequency.xyz) and the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP) (dsnp.org) to accelerate the world’s transition to an open, inclusive data economy that puts citizens in control.
- 2/10 Frank McCourt, civic entrepreneur and executive chairman of McCourt Global, founded Project Liberty in 2021 out of concern over Big Tech’s control over people’s data. He also co-authored a book titled “Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity and Dignity in the Digital Age.”
- @radhikaraj.bsky.social and @matene.bsky.social from @zdnet.bsky.social interviewed Project Liberty President @tomicah.bsky.social about our plan for decentralizing TikTok. Read the full article: www.zdnet.com/article/the-... #tiktokban
- Don't miss this timely blog post from Project Liberty founder Frank McCourt on the "five-alarm fire," i.e., 23andMe's bankruptcy and the decision to allow the company to sell people's genetic and ancestral data to other companies. www.projectliberty.io/news/23andme... #dataprivacy #23andme
- Happy #AILiteracyDay! @bethnoveck.bsky.social, Chief AI Strategist for New Jersey, asked public sector workers what they know about AI, and 88 percent said, “I don’t know anything about AI.” For these workers to develop these technologies in the public interest, we must start with education.
- 📹 Full panel from Project Liberty's Summit on the Future of the Internet - youtu.be/cs5_8gid8yg?...
- At our summit last fall, @mozilla.org President Mark Surman argued that open source is a main way to build a public option for AI that can draw upon the creativity of millions of people. We agree with Mark that open source tech and decentralized innovation are key to keeping pace in the AI age.
- 📹 Watch the full panel titled “Artificial Intelligence on a More Human Internet”: youtu.be/cs5_8gid8yg?...
- 📰Should we slow down AI development? In this week’s newsletter, we explore the risks and the upsides of powerful AI, and what’s possible as we near Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). email.projectliberty.io/should-we-sl...
- At Project Liberty's summit, @triketora.com from @blockpartyapp.com voiced concern about Big Tech platforms being under a single point of control. She called for the return of researcher APIs as a crucial step to bring back transparency and the ability to study & understand what’s happening.
- @forbes.com published a thoughtful piece on why Project Liberty is leading the bid for U.S. TikTok and what differentiates us from other bidders.
