The best Tech Policy newsletters

This newsletter offers empirical, source-referenced analysis of EU competition and digital regulation, covering Articles 101 and 102, the DMA, the AI Act, the GDPR and the Data Act. Recent issues combine close readings of case law and opinions with datasets built by coding provisions across the EU digital rulebook.

Platformer is an independent newsletter covering AI, social platforms, and the people shaping technology. Readers get analytical reporting and commentary on industry news such as regulatory actions against AI companies and leadership changes at major tech firms.

Long-form essays by a security and privacy researcher with a PhD in computer science and an LL.M. in IT law, covering cryptanalysis with AI, autonomous influence operations, and EU tech policy. Readers get detailed technical breakdowns of research findings and pointed policy critiques.

A personal tech and health notebook by Rory Cellan-Jones, mixing commentary on technology policy with podcast-style discussions of health topics such as osteoporosis, drawn from his own experiences. Readers get a candid, first-person take on how technology and health intersect, plus occasional lighter personal asides.

Touch Grass is an opinionated newsletter from the Fight for the Future team covering digital rights, surveillance, and internet freedom. Each issue pairs news hooks, such as India's takedown of the Bitchat messaging app and the US restrictions on Anthropic models, with a sharp argument about what they mean for online life.

A weekly roundup from the Tech Oversight Project covering tech accountability, including Big Tech regulation, data center backlash, AI chatbot safety and election messaging. It combines advocacy campaigns with news items and cultural commentary on the tech industry.

ByteSize is a weekly IT news newsletter that rounds up tech and AI stories with a jokey, irreverent voice, covering corporate AI agent security, immigration and labor policy affecting tech firms, and offbeat anecdotes. Readers get quick, opinionated takes on the week's big IT headlines in about four minutes of reading.

Opinionated essays criticising the AI industry, arguing that superintelligence fears and AI hype are overblown or manufactured. Readers get a sceptical, sometimes profane take on Big Tech, AI policy and corporate behaviour, with references to court documents and reports.

Content Is Not King is a digital diplomacy newsletter that covers the creator economy, social media policy, Substack's international growth, and NATO innovation. It offers news-style updates with quotes and context, often drawing on press reports and event coverage.

A publication from MIT's public interest technology community featuring interviews, columns, event coverage and press links about the social responsibilities of people who build and deploy technology. Readers get a view of civic tech, urban policy and digital equity work happening at MIT and across the PIT-UN network.

A polemical conservative newsletter by Alexander Muse that argues Apple's opaque messaging restrictions should be investigated, defends the PPP loan program while attacking fraud, and calls for scrutiny of Somali refugee resettlement. Readers get strongly partisan op-eds framed around a single political argument per issue.