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

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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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CBC: "What we witnessed unfold in Australia, and now in Canada, is Big Tech's willingness to cripple democracy by withholding news content to a population — chosen at random — as a bargaining chip to stop legislation," the group's executive director Nicole Gill said. "It's clear that Meta has no interest in acting in good faith or improving the lives of its users and the communities they operate in. There is simply no reason for the U.S. to delay any action on reining them in."

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Statement on Meta’s Decision to Block News Content in Canada

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Forbes: "Nicole Gill, the executive director and co-founder of the group Accountable Tech, penned an op-ed for Fast Company last week where she compared Altman to Meta’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg writing: 'Lawmakers appear poised to trust Altman to self-regulate under the guise of "innovation," even as the speed of AI is ringing alarm bells for technologists, academics, civil society, and yes, even lawmakers.'"

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Washington Post: "Nicole Gill, executive director of the left-leaning advocacy group Accountable Tech, said in a statement that Musk’s 'full-throated embrace of Ron DeSantis … is a new low for what was once one of the world’s most important communication platforms.' She added that 'Musk’s Twitter is officially a megaphone for one party’s extremism.'"

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