A Tech Transparency Project report shows Meta approved hundreds of ads selling guns and gun accessories in violation of its own policies—raising questions about the company’s ability, or willingness, to enforce safety standards for its lucrative advertising business.
Today, the Tech Transparency Project published a report showing that Meta is allowing users around the world to buy and sell Facebook accounts that are authorized to run political ads in the U.S—creating opportunities for foreign interference in the November election.
This week, Campaign for Accountability asked Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler to investigate whether donations to the State Financial Officers Foundation (SFOF) have violated the agency’s pay-to-play prohibition on political contributions by certain investment advisers.
A new Tech Transparency Project report highlights YouTube’s failure to enforce its new age restrictions on videos that show the “use of homemade firearms, automatic firearms, and certain firearm accessories,” more than six weeks after the company announced the policy.
Today, a bipartisan group of 19 members of Congress sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressing deep concern with recent findings published by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) and the Wall Street Journal that showed the prevalence of illicit drug advertisements on his company’s platforms.
A new Tech Transparency Project report documents how Apple CEO Tim Cook is ramping up his efforts as the company’s top lobbyist amid an unprecedented wave of legal and regulatory pressure.
A new Tech Transparency Project report details how a recent academic roundtable on AI organized by Silicon Valley Rep. Ro Khanna was dominated by academics with ties to Big Tech–despite the event’s billing as a counterbalance to tech industry influence.
YouTube is quietly making changes to its policies for gun videos, following a Tech Transparency Project report which found that YouTube recommended hundreds of videos about guns and gun violence to accounts for nine- and 14-year-old boys interested in video games. Read TTP's statement on the changes.
Campaign for Accountability Executive Director Michelle Kuppersmith issued a statement in response to reporting that Heartbeat International, an anti-abortion organization affiliated with thousands of "crisis pregnancy centers," appeared to leak the names and sensitive health data of over a dozen women who visited one of its affiliate clinics.
A new Tech Transparency Project report details how a recent academic roundtable on AI organized by Silicon Valley Rep. Ro Khanna was dominated by academics with ties to Big Tech–despite the event’s billing as a counterbalance to tech industry influence.