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.
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.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg wrote to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan requesting a meeting to discuss his platform’s hosting of instructional videos on how to make “ghost guns." Read the Tech Transparency Project's statement on the letter citing its research.
Today, Campaign for Accountability filed a series complaints highlighting deceptive practices of so-called “crisis pregnancy centers” (CPCs) affiliated with Heartbeat International and Care Net—anti-choice organizations that intentionally target women searching for legitimate abortion care providers to “save babies” from abortion.
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.
Today, CfA filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requesting an immediate investigation into whether the Conservative Partnership Institute indirectly engages in impermissible political campaign activity through its for-profit subsidiary, Compass Legal Group.
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.
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.
Evidence strongly suggests that, due to Schmidt’s self-professed involvement in the development of Phillip’s campaign strategy just weeks before he formed the Pass the Torch PAC, he and the PAC made $450,000 in coordinated communications with the campaign. CfA is asking the FEC to investigate.
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.