TTP Investigation: Instagram’s Algorithm Fuels Eating Disorder Epidemic
Today, the Tech Transparency Project released a report in collaboration with Reset showing that Instagram continues to promote dangerous eating disorder information to vulnerable users including young teenagers, despite promises to remove such content.
TTP Investigation: Instagram Offers Drug Pipeline to Kids
Today, the Tech Transparency Project released a report demonstrating how Instagram allows teen users as young as 13 to find potentially deadly drugs for sale in just two clicks.
TTP Investigation: YouTube’s Filter Bubble Problem is Worse for Fox News Viewers
Today, the Tech Transparency Project released a report showing that YouTube’s recommendation algorithm pushes users into ideological filter bubbles that are stronger for viewers of right-wing content.
TTP Investigation: Inside Apple’s Push to Kill State App Store Bills
Today, the Tech Transparency Project released a report revealing details of Apple’s aggressive, behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign to derail state legislation that threatened its tight control over the App Store.
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TTP Investigation: YouTube Fails to Remove Vaccine Conspiracies
Today, the Tech Transparency Project released a report revealing that YouTube is failing to deliver on its October 2020 promise to ban all videos containing misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines.
Watchdog Calls for Investigation into Sen. Marsha Blackburn for Abusing Her Office to Avoid a Traffic Ticket
Today, Campaign for Accountability sent a letter to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics requesting an investigation into whether Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) violated ethics rules by relying on her position as a United States Senator to avoid a traffic ticket.
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TTP Investigation: Apple Supplier Lens Technology Linked to Forced Labor, Records Show
Today, the Tech Transparency Project released a report containing evidence that a key supplier of touch screens for Apple products, Chinese company Lens Technology, has used thousands of minority laborers from Xinjiang under China’s repressive forced labor program.
TTP Investigation: YouTube Still Awash in False Voter Fraud Claims
Today, CfA and TTP released a report revealing that YouTube is failing to remove new videos spreading baseless conspiracies about widespread voter fraud, despite the company’s Dec. 9 announcement that it would take down such content. In the days following the announcement, TTP easily found examples of new videos spreading disinformation on YouTube, often racking up thousands of views.