Press & Media

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

Channel 4: "We’re joined by Jesse Lehrich, founder of Accountable Tech and former spokesperson for Hilary Clinton, and Katie Harbath from the Washington think tank Bipartisan Policy Centre. She’s a former public policy director at Facebook and has also worked for the Republican party."

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The New York Times: "'Replatforming Trump would thrust us back into the world in which our entire political discourse is perpetually upended by his tweets,' said Jesse Lehrich, a former Hillary Clinton spokesman who helped found a nonprofit focused on tech companies and political speech."

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Statement on Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover

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Obama Outlines Existential Threat Big Tech Poses to Democracy

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Grid News: “'It’s not terribly surprising,' said Jesse Lehrich, co-founder of Accountable Tech, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that advocates for reforming social media."

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Barron's: “'In the worst-case scenario, having Elon Musk successfully turn Twitter into the free-speech absolutist site he wants it to be could be pretty catastrophic for the information ecosystem,' said Jesse Lehrich, a co-founder of the advocacy group Accountable Tech."

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Grid News: "The last three bills passed — in Utah, Virginia and Colorado — bar users from taking a company to court for exposing their personal data, according to Jesse Lehrich, a co-founder of Accountable Tech, a civil society organization working to bring about long-term structural reform regarding surveillance and social media companies."

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Grid News: "'The platforms that are the status quo continue to be monumentally more influential than anything that has challenged them,' said Jesse Lehrich, a co-founder of Accountable Tech, a civil-society organization working to bring about long-term structural reform regarding surveillance and social-media companies."

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The Washington Post: "Accountable Tech, a left-leaning advocacy group, argued in a policy memo comparing U.S. and E.U. tech reforms that Europe’s incoming regulation 'reads like an omnibus bill written by top American lawmakers' because of its overlap with many U.S. proposals."

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Statement on the EU’s Digital Markets Act

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