Democracy depends on common truths

Big Tech companies are eroding our consensus reality and pushing democracy to the brink. Accountable Tech is fighting back.

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Democracy depends on <span>common truths</span>

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Tell Google to Delete Users’ Location Data

Join us in calling on Google to stop unnecessarily collecting and retaining customer location data, which could be used by right-wing state governments to prosecute those seeking abortions.

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Stop Toxic Twitter

Join us and a coalition of 60+ civil rights and civil society groups calling on Twitter advertisers to demand a safer Twitter for their brands and for users.

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How Trump Continues to Weaponize Social Media

New report from Accountable Tech finds that more than 350 posts from Donald Trump on Truth Social are in violation of Facebook’s safety guidelines.

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Tell Google to Delete Users’ Location Data

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Stop Toxic Twitter

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How Trump Continues to Weaponize Social Media

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Pluribus News: "Accountable Tech, AI Now and the Electronic Privacy Information Center put forth an AI governance framework in August that accused AI companies of calling for regulation while 'privately lobbying against meaningful accountability measures.Given the monumental stakes, blind trust in their benevolence is not an option,' the groups wrote."

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WIRED: “With authoritarianism on the rise, and dozens of countries set to hold high-stakes elections next year, democracy is facing an existential threat,” says Jesse Lehrich, cofounder of the nonprofit Accountable Tech. “And Elon Musk continues to tip the scales in the wrong direction, gutting integrity teams and steamrolling basic safeguards on a platform that sits at the center of the global information ecosystem in ways that have already proven a boon to autocrats and propagandists.”

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Tech Oversight Project: "So far, a coalition of ten civil society groups, including Accountable Tech, the Center for American Progress (CAP), and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) have all signed onto the framework."

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The Messenger: "On Wednesday, a collection of watchdog groups published new suggestions for how platforms like X should handle political misinformation, imploring them to better document their efforts and offer greater transparency."

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