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Unsealed Court Documents Expose Big Tech’s P.R. Strategy Behind ‘Safer Internet Day’
Internal communications reveal coordination with nonprofits to deflect criticism as harms to kids and teens continue As Big Tech companies prepare to observe “Safer Internet Day” tomorrow, February 10th, The Tech Oversight Project released the following statement highlighting the gap between tech companies’ public safety commitments and their documented business practices: “While parents and families […]
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Meta Hauled to Court in Two Child Safety Trials as Social Media Reckoning Begins
As opening arguments begin today in the landmark social media addiction trial in Los Angeles and New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez’s trial against Meta starts in Santa Fe, Sacha Haworth, Executive Director of The Tech Oversight Project, issued the following statement: “This is the split screen of Mark Zuckerberg’s nightmares: a landmark trial in […]
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The Tech Oversight Project Launches New Microsite Highlighting Evidence from the Landmark Social Media Addiction Trials
Disturbing evidence shows Big Tech intentionally designed its products to addict kids – no matter the damage Microsite to be updated with new material throughout the trial WASHINGTON, D.C. – As opening statements in the landmark social media addiction trials begin this week, The Tech Oversight Project launched a new microsite to spotlight evidence from […]
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Tech Oversight Project Statement on TikTok Settlement in Upcoming Social Media Addiction Bellwether Case
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following statement on news that TikTok settled its first case in the upcoming social media addiction trials. Per news reports, similar claims against Meta’s Facebook and Instagram and Google’s YouTube will proceed as scheduled for now. Terms of the proposed settlement have not been disclosed. “Yesterday, […]
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TECH OVERSIGHT REPORT: UNSEALED COURT DOCUMENTS SHOW TEEN ADDICTION WAS BIG TECH’S “TOP PRIORITY”
New documents show the tactics Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok execs used to disrupt learning, prey on minors, and co-opt the PTA to control the narrative with parents WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project published a new report spotlighting newly unsealed documents in the 2026 social media addiction trials. The documents provide smoking-gun evidence […]
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Tech Oversight Project/Morning Consult Poll: Majority of Americans Question Trump’s Cozy Relationship with Big Tech
By a two-to-one margin, voters believe the Trump Administration is too close to Big Tech View the poll here WASHINGTON, DC — Today, The Tech Oversight Project released a nationwide survey conducted by Morning Consult showing that an overwhelming majority of Americans are concerned by President Trump’s cozy relationship with Big Tech companies like Google, […]
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The Tech Oversight Project Slams Launch of ChatGPT Health, Amid OpenAI Product Liability Lawsuits Leading to Suicide and Murder
WASHINGTON, DC – The Tech Oversight Project slammed OpenAI for launching “ChatGPT Health” amid a growing wave of product liability lawsuits linking the company to deaths by suicide and murder: “Under Sam Altman’s watch, ChatGPT drove minors to suicidal ideation, coached them through how to take their own lives, and dissuaded them from seeking medical […]
