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The Tech Oversight Project Slams Meta for Hampering Child Sex Abuse Investigations with Faulty AI Content Reporting System
New Meta System Slows Law Enforcement Efforts to Find, Help Victimized Children Replacing Traumatized Moderators With AI Workaround Creates New Host of Problems WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Sacha Haworth, Executive Director of The Tech Oversight Project, issued the following statement regarding a Guardian report that social media companies including Meta have started inundating U.S. investigators […]
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LETTER: The Tech Oversight Project and 13 Advocacy Organizations Call on Congress to Increase Funding for the DOJ Antitrust Division
View the letter here. WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project and over a dozen progressive allies led a letter to Congressional appropriators urging them to increase funding for the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division. The DOJ Antitrust Division – led by AAG Jonathan Kanter – has recently racked up a series of wins that […]
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The Tech Oversight Project Blasts Meta As New Mexico Attorney General Reveals New Smoking-Gun Evidence of Child Safety Violations
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Sacha Haworth, Executive Director of The Tech Oversight Project, released the following statement after new smoking-gun evidence about Meta’s knowing violations of child safety was unredacted from New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez’s lawsuit and reported by AP: “How many more smoking guns do we need to see from Big Tech […]
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The Tech Oversight Project Blasts Meta for Gaslighting Lawmakers, Parents, and Young People in Latest Announcement
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following statement blasting Meta for gaslighting lawmakers, parents, and young people with its “latest announcement” to provide resources to children and teens who are harmed by Meta’s dangerous product designs. Meta’s announcement follows a nearly identical proclamation from the company in 2019 – proving that the […]
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ICYMI: NYT: U.S. Moves Closer to Filing Sweeping Antitrust Case Against Apple
“The Department of Justice’s pending action against Apple proves that if you give the Antitrust Division the funding it needs, they will fight tooth and nail to improve competition, lower prices, and give consumers more choices online. By passing Senator Amy Klobuchar’s Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act in 2022, Congress and the Biden Administration took […]
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The Tech Oversight Project, Civil Society Join Bipartisan Lawmaker Calls for Apple Antitrust Lawsuit, Congressional Oversight
View the Tech Oversight Project letter to DOJ here. WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project led 15 civil society and advocacy in organizations in calling for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to open an antitrust lawsuit against Apple for its anticompetitive and self-preferencing practices that cut off safe and secure message access from […]
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The Tech Oversight Project Issues Statement on COPPA Rule
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Sacha Haworth, Executive Director of The Tech Oversight Project, issued the following statement after the Federal Trade Commission proposed updates to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA) that would place new restrictions on the use and disclosure of children’s personal information and further limit the ability of companies to condition […]