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TOP Report: A History of Meta and Facebook Whistleblowers
As Congress prepares to question a new set of whistleblowers at Meta (formerly Facebook), The Tech Oversight Project has provided a brief history of former employees who have come forward and exposed the Mark Zuckerberg-led company’s dishonesty, culture of lawbreaking, and reckless endangerment of children online. Sophie Zhang, 2021 Findings showed: Facebook failed to stop […]
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The Tech Oversight Project Statement on Meta Burying Child Safety Research
Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following statement after new reporting from the Washington Post proved that Meta has been suppressing damning child safety research on the Metaverse for years – raising fresh questions about their platforms’ practices and Meta’s culture of lawbreaking. Meta systematically concealed data by having lawyers instruct researchers to run […]
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The Tech Oversight Project Slams Big Tech’s Corrupt White House Rose Garden Dinner Party
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following statement admonishing Big Tech’s corrupt White House Rose Garden dinner party with President Trump. The oligarchs’ conclave comes on the heels of damning accusations encircling Meta, OpenAI, Google, and Google-funded Character.Ai that they have caused multiple children’s suicides, shedding new light about their disregard for […]
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The Tech Oversight Project Statement on Google Search Remedy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, The Tech Oversight Project’s Executive Director, Sacha Haworth, issued the following statement about Judge Amit Mehta’s misguided remedy in the Google Search trial. “While Judge Amit Mehta’s decision blocks some of Google’s predatory practices, it fails to meet this historic moment and shows that his decision was made based on speculative […]
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Altman Ignored Warnings, Acted Only After Youth Suicide Publicly Reported
“Sam Altman has repeatedly refused to act on safety concerns raised by his own employees, but is now jumping to make basic fixes he could have made at any time only when the tragic death of a child, which he already knew about, was publicly reported. Sadly we know all too well that so-called safety […]
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Bloomberg: Meta & Google Lobbyists Fight to Pass the Buck on Kids Online Safety
Age Verification Battle Splinters Industry Groups, Prompts Covert Advocacy Group Funding “Meta, Google, and other Big Tech companies are playing a shameless cross-country blame game with warring age verification proposals as they try to pass the buck to one another while actively opposing broad bipartisan efforts to protect kids online. Although it may be refreshing […]
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TOP REPORT: Trump’s Tax Bill Gave Huge Handouts to Big Tech Monopolies
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following report calling out Donald Trump’s big handouts to Big Tech platforms in his budget reconciliation bill. A full version of the report can be found here, and a list of key findings can be found below. “Guess those inaugural donations are starting to pay […]
