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Feb 20, 2025
I Investigate Meta’s Secret Plan to Make Zuckerberg Cool
"In 2020, he had the lowest favorability ratings of any prominent American."
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Feb 07, 2025
Trump reboots AI policy
Trump’s decision to roll back protections that the Biden administration put in place is likely to hurt Americans, Nicole Gill, co-founder and executive director of Accountable Tech, a nonprofit that focuses on digital justice, said in a statement.
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Feb 04, 2025
‘Orwellian overreach’: Social media platforms file lawsuit over Md. law on kids online privacy
“This latest lawsuit — the tenth legal challenge brought by NetChoice against overwhelmingly popular state safety bills — is an affront to the families and young people who fought and advocated for the successful passage of the Maryland Kids Code and to the millions who have borne the brunt of the industry’s toxic business practices,” Gill’s statement said.
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Feb 03, 2025
Social media companies head to court, claim Maryland Kids Code is unconstitutional
Accountable Tech Executive Director Nicole Gill said in a statement that the tech firms are using the courts “to achieve what they couldn’t in Annapolis: shielding themselves from any ounce of accountability.”
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Feb 02, 2025
Big Tech on the rise one year after Senate beat-down
“My hope is that kids’ online safety continues to be that bipartisan push. My hope is that this administration looks at it as an issue that they can win on to protect young people online,” Zaman Qureshi, a campaigner for advocacy group Accountable Tech, told The Hill.
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Jan 30, 2025
Big Tech Chose a Side. Here’s What’s Next.
The recent actions of Big Tech CEOs have made their alliances clear: Despite installing some pro-democracy window dressing in recent years, tech companies have steadily and systematically captured our means of communication and surrendered them to the MAGA universe. In the US, the question now is whether Democrats and others who oppose MAGA politics will recognize the alliance between the far right and Big Tech – and take steps to rein in this dangerous turn toward extremism before we lose our democracy altogether.
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Jan 29, 2025
Meta will pay $25 million to settle Trump lawsuit alleging censorship
“In the weeks following the 2024 election, Meta has gone out of its way to show fealty to Trump and join his far-right clique,” Accountable Tech co-founder Nicole Gill said in a statement Wednesday. “This settlement is the latest example of that — a signal that Meta is willing to do whatever it takes to appease this administration.”
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Jan 29, 2025
Accountable Tech Statement on Meta’s $25 Million January 6th Settlement
Accountable Tech Co-Founder and Executive Director Nicole Gill issued the following statement on Meta’s latest gift to Trump in a settlement over the platform’s decision to suspend the then-candidate for using Facebook to incite the January 6th insurrection.
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Jan 27, 2025
Democrats Are Out on Social Media — But They Know They Can’t Quit
Accountable Tech, a progressive-leaning advocacy organization long at the crux of conversations like this, made a push during Joe Biden’s term for Democrats to increase regulation of social media. It warned against data mining and algorithms that work to keep users’ attention with more controversial, extreme and often just plain incorrect content. “These platforms are all just monopolies,” Nicole Gill, the group’s co-founder, told NOTUS. She pointed to the attendance by platform owners at Trump’s inauguration. “All of these sites have a bent, and I think we’re going to see more and more of that come through as they do away with all their already limited content moderation guidelines and fact-checking.”
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Jan 22, 2025
Instagram Goes After TikTokers; TikTok’s MAGA Moment
Instagram and other rivals are also turning to paid ads to boost their services. While Meta has run ads on TikTok for years, it has been increasing the number of ads it's running on the app over the past 24 hours, according to tech watch dog and nonprofit Accountable Tech.
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Jan 20, 2025
Accountable Tech Statement on President Trump’s Repeal of White House Order on AI
Accountable Tech Co-Founder and Executive Director Nicole Gill issued the following statement on President Trump's repeal of the White House Order on AI.
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Jan 18, 2025
Reactions to the US Supreme Court’s TikTok Ruling
Nicole Gill, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Accountable Tech: "Although social media is a tool for connection, community, and exploration, it is also a weapon for mass disinformation, manipulation, and addiction. For years now, China has had this weapon pointed at millions of Americans through TikTok, with profound power to collect vast amounts of data and potentially exploit how Americans receive information. But they are not alone: Meta and other U.S. companies use similar tactics to addict and exploit their users – including young people – in this country and around the world."
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