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2020

Facebook extends political ad ban another month as Trump refuses to concede

“If Facebook and Google are truly incapable of reviewing and safely running Georgia Senate ads without opening the floodgates of paid disinformation across their platforms, it’s a damning indictment of their own business model,” said Nicole Gill, executive director of tech policy advocacy group Accountable Tech, said in a statement. “These companies are already failing to curb the viral spread of conspiracy theories designed to delegitimize our elections. As has always been the case, deceptive organic content — boosted by toxic algorithms – continues to drive social media’s disinformation crisis; not paid content. Preventing campaigns from running ads to inform Georgians about how and why to participate in these critical runoff elections is actively harmful to democracy.”

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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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