Tech Oversight Project’s new initiative aims at urging lawmakers to create competition rules for tech companies. The project is funded by liberal billionaire Pierre Omidyar and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, however, and headed by a “veteran of Democratic politics,” Sacha Haworth.
The Tech Oversight Project describes itself as “a nonprofit organization dedicated to holding Big Tech accountable by urging lawmakers to support comprehensive antitrust legislation.” The project “plans to bring ‘campaign-style’ tactics” to bear on lawmakers, according to The Washington Post. Pierre Omidyar (founder of eBay) is said to have funded the Omidyar Network which is an initiative by Omidyar. Omidyar was a founding partner in leftist journalism. The Intercept, a site of left-wingers that was launched in 2014. It publishes Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks. Omidyar also funds NeverTrump. Bulwark.
HaworthAccording to, he will serve as the Tech Oversight Project’s executive director. The Post. Haworth served as the Great Lakes Regional Press secretary for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Haworth worked previously for Matt Entenza (Democratic Party Congressman) in Minnesota’s election campaign. Rick Nolan (MN). Haworth was reputed to have told the story The Post that she wants to bring the “aggressiveness” of a campaign to the new tech regulation initiative.
Chris Hughes, Facebook’s cofounder and chief executive officer, is funding the Tech Oversight Project via the advocacy arm his non-profit Economic Security Project. The Post wrote. Hughes, who is also senior fellow at The Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy (The New School), advocates for left-leaning policies through his non-profit, such as guaranteed income.
Omidyar Network also funds liberal causes. The network has given over $200 million to groups including Center for Public Integrity, and supported groups such as leftist billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundations. Recently, leftist activist turned Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen admitted that she had received monetary aid from the nonprofit Luminate, an Omidyar Network member. While the Tech Oversight Project reportedly strongly opposes Big Tech-funded groups and lobbyists, and seeks antitrust action from lawmakers, the project’s ties to Omidyar should raise concerns for pro-free speech advocates.
The Post gushed that groups critical of Big Tech have previously lacked resources, but that the new initiative shows how “professionalized and coordinated” such critics are becoming. Tech millionaires like Omidyar and Hughes can fund “expensive tactics” to achieve antitrust regulation.
According to reports, the Tech Oversight Project’s work will begin by sending senators the American Innovation and Choice Online Act. The bill, introduced by Amy Klobuchar, a pro-censorship senator from Minnesota, would prohibit Facebook, Google and Amazon from preferring their products to those of rivals.
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