Media Must Challenge Surveillance Partnerships

Right-wing media figures and podcasters, including those aligned with the Trump movement, are sounding the alarm about the administration’s collaboration with tech giant Palantir Technologies Inc. — calling it a “spy network” and warning that “we’re headed to a surveillance state.” 

While these commentators raise concern, mainstream outlets have largely failed to match that urgency. Newsrooms must not treat surveillance-state expansion as fringe. They have an obligation to investigate how vast databases, biometric tools, and real-time monitoring contracts might erode civil liberties.

Add your name to demand media coverage that exposes private-sector and government data collaborations, digs into power dynamics, and resists normalizing the building blocks of a surveillance state.