Press & Media

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

TechCrunch: Color of Change, Activist Groups Step Up Pressure to Kick Trump Off Twitter, Facebook

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POLITICO: "And on Monday, a coalition of nonprofits and progressive groups wrote a separate letter to the Biden-Harris team stressing that there is 'no simple bill or regulation that will alone cure [the information crisis]' and outlining ways to prioritize disinformation."

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Buzzfeed: "There is no panacea for the information crisis — no simple bill or regulation that will alone cure its noxious society-wide impacts,” said the letter, which was signed by Accountable Tech, Greenpeace, the Center for American Progress, and others. “We must instead fight it with government-wide strategies.”

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Axios: Coalition demands Biden act on misinformation: "Organizers, which include Accountable Tech, MapLight and Avaaz, say the goal of the effort was to figure out what's doable in an administration with a lot on its plate."

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Statement on Joining Onward Together

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Statement on Antitrust Lawsuits Brought Against Facebook

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Adweek: Donald Trump's Twitter Account Is in Jeopardy: "Jesse Lehrich, cofounder of the liberal advocacy group Accountable Tech, thinks Trump's dismissal is inevitable."

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The Wall Street Journal: "Jesse Lehrich, co-founder of nonprofit Accountable Tech, which is critical of social-media companies, said Mr. Zients’s time on Facebook’s board raises concerns because of the way some users have turned to the platform to spread conspiracy theories about vaccines and the coronavirus."

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The Verge: "Accountable Tech co-founder Jesse Lehrich called Zients a 'talented problem-solver' but said Facebook’s role in spreading anti-vaccine misinformation could not be ignored."

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Statement on Jeff Zients Being Tapped as COVID Czar

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