Exclusive: Meta launches super PAC to fight AI regulation
Meta launched a new super PAC on Tuesday to help fight off what it sees as onerous AI and tech policy bills across the country, per an announcement shared exclusively with Axios. Why it matters: As the federal government fully embraces AI and looks unlikely to pass significant tech policy regulation any time soon, busy state houses are tech companies' biggest problem.
Meta's nonfederal PAC — which will be run by longtime Republican operative Brian Baker and Democratic consulting firm Hilltop Public Solutions — will focus on electing state candidates from both parties. The super PAC is called the American Technology Excellence Project, and Meta spokesperson Rachel Holland said the company is investing in the "tens of millions" into the project.
Holland said it's meant to fend off what the company sees as poorly crafted state-level tech policy proposals — with 1,100 introduced just this year — that could hurt the U.S. in the AI race with China. With the super PAC, Meta will be focused on three pillars, per Holland: promoting and defending U.S. technology companies and leadership, advocating for AI progress, and putting parents in charge of how their kids experience online apps and AI technologies. Holland said Meta could not yet share which states the PAC would immediately be focused on and that it has not determined how many people the PAC would employ.
What they're saying: "Amid a growing patchwork of inconsistent regulations that threaten homegrown innovation and investments in AI, state lawmakers are uniquely positioned to ensure that America remains a global technology leader," Meta VP of public policy Brian Rice said in a statement. "This is why Meta is launching an effort to support the election of state candidates across the country who embrace AI development, champion the U.S. technology industry, and defend American tech leadership at home and abroad."
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/23/meta-superpac-ai-regulation
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That idea is freedom for AI to report factual information (and conclusions thereupon) regardless of political inconvenience. I think that's a VERY important AI Freedom (if you will) that must be maintained. It is apparently not that important to Zuck & Co, because Zuckerberg is a dick, obviously. 
The only way to maintain that freedom, perhaps paradoxically, is probably through regulation.
What I mean by this is (for the moment, at least) you can prompt AI to answer a question like "Why do so many people hate Trump", and it will endeavor to come up with a honest list of reasons why that is the case.
And you have to know that Trump will hate that whenever someone informs him that this is the case.