Press & Media

A round up of all the latest news updates and press releases from Accountable Tech.

Bloomberg: "According to Rishi Bharwani, policy director for Accountable Tech, a group that advocates for reforms to social media, 'these companies are so large that no single legislative intervention will fully mitigate their societal harms.'”

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Protocol: "Accountable Tech, a Democratic-allied group that's been critical of the industry, also recently formally petitioned for rulemaking on "surveillance advertising" — casting the technology that powers Big Tech companies like Google as a threat to competition."

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The Verge: “It’s the focus on the business model at the crux of this, because that is what ties all of these scandals together,” Rishi Bharwani, director of partnership and policy at Accountable Tech, told The Verge in an interview Monday. “It’s why Facebook is profiting off of and playing a determining role in the Rohingya genocide. It’s why Facebook is allowing the continued spread of COVID mis- and disinformation. It’s because they’re profiting off of it.”

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Recode: “[Haugen] has provided an unvarnished and unprecedented look at the extent to which Facebook executives have knowingly disregarded the life-and-death consequences of their own products and decisions,” Jesse Lehrich, co-founder of the policy nonprofit Accountable Tech, told Recode. “And she’s paved the way for others to speak out.”

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POLITICO: "Accountable Tech launching a six-figure national TV ad buy this morning and planning a post-hearing rally with other groups, including Fairplay and the so-called Real Facebook Oversight Board."

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Accountable Tech Launches TV Ads on Facebook’s Coverup of Harms to Kids

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Law 360: "Eshoo’s statement on Tuesday came after the advocacy organization Accountable Tech filed the petition calling on the FTC to ban surveillance advertising as an ‘unfair method of competition.’"

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MediaPost: "'Surveillance advertising' is unfair to consumers and harms competition by enabling companies that collect data to use the information to dominate new markets, Accountable Tech tells the FTC."

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The Wall Street Journal: "This week, the progressive-leaning advocacy group Accountable Tech petitioned the agency to ban 'surveillance advertising' as an unfair method of competition, defining the practice as targeted advertising based on consumers’ personal data."

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Next TV: "Calling out Facebook and Google...nonprofit watchdog group Accountable Tech has called on the Federal Trade Commission to ban targeted advertising based on user data, or what it calls 'surveillance' advertising."

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