November 2025 US Tech Policy Roundup
Among the leading stories for this month was a surge of AI-industry political spending ahead of the 2026 midterms and an antitrust ruling in favor of Meta. Leading AI firms launched an array of super PACs—most prominently Leading the Future, which has raised over $100 million—to oppose state-level AI regulations and boost pro-AI candidates. Meta followed with two new PACs backing candidates supportive of AI innovation. Also in November, a federal judge dismissed the Federal Trade Commission’s long-running antitrust challenge to Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, ruling that the company is not a monopolist given competition from TikTok and YouTube—an outcome praised by industry advocates and sharply criticized by antitrust advocates.
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On top of a failing business model, newsrooms must navigate the powerful — and not fully reliable — new capabilities of artificial intelligence and the deployment of large language models.
State of the business model | Copyright and intellectual property
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The Meta-FTC trial | Section 230