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2021

A ‘lobbyist who has to make the president happy’ is part of Facebook’s content moderation, employees complain: report

"Jesse Lehrich, co-founder of advocacy group called Accountable Tech, told POLITICO that "it is a fatal flaw of Facebook as a company that their team in charge of lobbying governments clearly is empowered to intervene on product and content decisions in ways that make it impossible to do good work."

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Apr 17, 2025
Google’s Ad Dominance Is Illegal, Federal Judge Rules

“'We’re excited to see such enthusiasm,' said Alison Rice with Accountable Tech, which targets the industry’s surveillance advertising business model. 'The mechanism and the model that Big Tech has been using is taking advantage of the power that they have over this entire ecosystem to leverage nefarious designs and weaponize them in order to drive profits.'”

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Apr 17, 2025
Google has illegal monopoly in ad tech, US judge rules

Nicole Gill, co-founder of advocacy group Accountable Tech, called Brinkema's decision a "massive victory,"

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