News Summary

A group of Canadian tech leaders, including Philippe Beaudoin, co-founder of Numeno.ai, and Mark Surman, president of the Mozilla Foundation, have joined the Free Our Feeds initiative to liberate social media feeds from the control of tech billionaires. The campaign, which includes global figures like Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is raising $30 million to support decentralized social media platform Bluesky. The goal is to protect Bluesky’s technology from billionaire influence and promote user control over social media content. The campaign plans to establish a public service foundation and an innovation fund to encourage developers to build alternative social media platforms using Bluesky’s open protocols.