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2022

Elon Musk’s Twitter faces its ‘Titanic’ moment as executives and advertisers flee while trolls run rampant

Maybe Twitter will find a path forward. But the road ahead looks quite arduous. As the non-profit watchdog Accountable Tech put it Thursday evening: “This hellscape is going to get more hellish. More hate speech and harassment. More deception and impersonation. More privacy and security risks for all of us. We would once again tell advertisers to jump ship, but at this point, no CMO in their right mind needs that advice.”

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Chicago Tribune
May 12, 2025
Hinsdale native’s youth online safety coalition works with parents, others to push for accountability from social media giants

"Hinsdale native Zamaan Qureshi went to New York City at the end of April to protest against tech giant Meta — which owns Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp — and what he said were the apparent lack of safeguards for young people online."

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KQED
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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