TTP Report: Tim Cook’s Role as Apple Lobbyist-in-Chief
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.
TTP Statement on New YouTube Age Restrictions on Gun Videos
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.
TTP Report: Facebook Black Market for Ad Accounts Looms Over India Election
Today, the Tech Transparency Project released a report showing that Facebook is allowing users to buy and sell accounts that can run political ads in India—raising concerns they could be used to interfere in the country’s ongoing elections.
Tech Transparency Project Uncovers New Ties Between Eric Schmidt and Chinese AI Industry
A new TTP report shows the close ties between former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and the Chinese AI industry—an industry that Schmidt has characterized as a strategic threat to the U.S.
TTP Report: X Gives Blue Checkmarks to Hezbollah, Other U.S.-Sanctioned Groups
A new Tech Transparency Project report shows how X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, is providing premium, paid services to accounts for two leaders of a U.S.-designated terrorist group and several other organizations sanctioned by the U.S. government.
TTP Report: Meta Approved Harmful Teen Ads Generated Using Its Own AI
Today, the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) published a new investigation showing that Meta approved a series of teen-targeted ads for drug parties, extreme weight loss and other harmful activities that violated its policies.
CfA Responds to USDC-issuer Circle’s Denial of Terror Financing Entanglements
Today, Campaign for Accountability sent a letter to Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) highlighting incomplete and misleading information contained within Circle's response to previous concerns CfA raised about the company’s operations.
New Database: Zuckerberg and Meta Reach Deep into Academia
The Tech Transparency Project and the Real Facebook Oversight Board released a searchable database of donations made by Meta and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, to a broad array of colleges and universities across the United States.
TTP + ADL Report: Online Platforms Aid in Hate Group Fundraising
A new report from the Tech Transparency Project and Anti-Defamation League details how antisemitic and white supremacist groups and their supporters use Facebook Pages, YouTube channels, and X accounts to funnel people to off-platform websites that solicit donations, sell memberships, or market hate-related merchandise.
TTP Report: White Supremacists on X Premium Use Israel-Hamas Conflict to Push Hate Agenda
A Tech Transparency Project report shows how white supremacists with X Premium accounts are seizing on the Israel-Hamas conflict to amplify antisemitism, Islamophobia, and broader anti-immigrant hate narratives on the platform.