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Zach Praiss

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It’s hard to accept that the U.S. is heading towards democratic collapse. So, I photoshopped some potential headlines to show #WhatsToCome if we don’t act now…

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November 8, 2022 #WhatsToCome

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@WiscoLisa Most of those headlines would come after January 2025 from my perspective. I stopped at the next inauguration, but predict that Republicans will scrap the filibuster in 2025 in the name of national crisis and plow ahead with their most aggressive agenda.

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Zach Praiss

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3 years

What we could've had. What we got.

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Zach Praiss

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4 years

Please enjoy this graphic I made explaining why @SenateDems must eliminate the filibuster.

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Zach Praiss

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2 years

All the surveillance balloons entering U.S. airspace.

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Zach Praiss

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3 years

Twitter banned ads from RT and Sputnik in 2017 after U.S. intelligence concluded they were used by Russia to interfere in our elections. Facebook and YouTube did not ban ads from RT and Sputnik until two weeks ago. Big Tech's actions must also be weighed against their inaction.

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Zach Praiss

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4 years

We can debate his cabinet, but these curtains are a must for @JoeBiden .

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Zach Praiss

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2 years

So much for being a champion of free speech?

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4 years

Compare cabinets:

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Zach Praiss

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3 years

It's not fair to equate Facebook to Big Tobacco. Tobacco harms individual users and those in their immediate vicinity. Facebook harms individual users and fuels the extremism, disinformation, and violence that's the stuff of democratic and societal collapse. Facebook is worse.

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Zach Praiss

@ZachPraiss

2 years

Based on the latest ballot counts, the nearly 700,000 residents of Washington, DC will still have 0 voting Members of Congress. #DCStatehood

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Zach Praiss

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1 year

Let me get this straight: Elon Musk — the king of free speech — took $1.89B from Saudi Arabia in his acquisition of Twitter and now aids them in helping sentence people to death for their tweets?

Saudi man sentenced to death for tweets in harshest verdict yet for online critics

A retired teacher in Saudi Arabia a death sentence for his tweets criticizing the country's leadership to just a handful of followers, according to rights advocates and his family.

www.npr.org

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Zach Praiss

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3 years

If we treated social media companies like we treated cars, baby cribs, vegetables, or medicine, I wonder how many times we would've recalled Facebook by now for harming the mental health of teens and young adults?

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1 year

An internal task force at Facebook after the Capitol insurrection said the company would “do better next time.” So much for that.

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2 years

@imjohnrogers That's a great question. Democrats need to maintain power in Congress, but we must do more. I’m not sure what that is yet, but I’m committed to figuring it out.

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4 years

Mitch McConnell eliminated the filibuster for 3 of these. Now @SenateDems need to get rid of it for the fourth.

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Zach Praiss

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2 years

Elon Musk doesn't own Twitter yet, but the company is planning on giving him access to all their/our data? 🤔

Accountable Tech

@accountabletech

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NEW: We sent a letter to Twitter to urge them not to capitulate to Elon Musk’s demands for direct access to the company’s vast troves of sensitive user data.

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Zach Praiss

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3 years

Preventing gun violence. Protecting voting rights. Achieving D.C. statehood. Securing a $15 minimum wage. Passing immigration reform. Overcoming climate change. The filibuster stands in the way of them all.

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Zach Praiss

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8 months

Re-elect Biden. Keep the Senate. Win back the House. Eliminate the filibuster. Codify Roe. Protect voting rights. Achieve D.C. statehood. Ban assault weapons. Ensure universal background checks. Secure a $15 minimum wage. Pass immigration reform. Overcome climate change. Vote to

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Zach Praiss

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1 year

Folks, Kansas Constitutional Amendment Kentucky Constitutional Amendment 2 Vermont Proposal 5 Michigan Proposal 3 Montana Legislative Referendum 131 California Proposition 1 Ohio Issue 1 Republicans have lost every abortion-related ballot measure since the fall of Roe.

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Zach Praiss

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4 years

This is a @staceyabrams appreciation tweet.

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4 years

Tired: Abolish the filibuster. Wired: Abolish the Senate.

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3 years

What's the point of a transparency report when you won't even be transparent about what's at the top of it?

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The most widely viewed page on Facebook last quarter was removed for violating the company's Community Standards. We don't know what the page even was. It reached 121.8 million people. My colleague @jolingkent has asked Meta to tell us what it is, and they've refused.

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The filibuster is an archaic Senate rule born out of white supremacy with a racist past, present, and future as it continues to block popular legislation today.

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I wrote an op-ed that quotes @Olivia_Rodrigo , so I guess I've made it. But in all seriousness, Instagram is bad for teens' mental health. Millions including myself struggle with the dangerous harms of the platform. Facebook needs to release its research:

What Instagram Is Actually Doing to Your Mental Health

It doesn't have to work this way.

www.teenvogue.com

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Zach Praiss

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The filibuster stands in the way of all the below bills:

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Zach Praiss

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Maybe we shouldn’t let billionaires control our mass communications platforms?

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Wow. Watch @EmmaLembke and Aliza Kopans speak to Big Tech's profound and pervasive harms to young people on @60Minutes . "They didn't care as long as my eyes were on the screen and as long as I was making them profit."

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Facebook says they're a company that strives to connect the world. But as the Head of Instagram said yesterday, they are an advertising business that strives to hook users, extract data, and run ads.

Accountable Tech

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Instagram is an advertising business, straight from the horse's mouth.

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|---------------| | Elon Musk | | bought and | | broke | | Twitter | |---------------| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / 　づ

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@oneunderscore__ @jolingkent The page was called "That ain't right" which ironically also applies to Facebook's decision here to refuse to provide information and transparency.

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Let this sink in: Over 3/4 of the states are suing one company for harming kids. It's not a tobacco company. It's not a food company. It's not a car company. It's Meta.

41 states sue Meta, claiming Instagram, Facebook are addictive, harm kids

Dozens of states are accusing Facebook and Instagram parent Meta of designing addictive features that harm children.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Zach Praiss

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. @themarkup 's investigation of 23,000 nonprofit websites found that “86 percent of them had third-party cookies or tracking network requests.” My first staff post for @accountabletech breaks down how to rid your website of these cookies and ad trackers:

How to Build a Website Without Big Tech’s Surveillance Trackers - Accountable Tech

A roadmap to building or updating a website to not have third-party cookies and ad trackers that feed into Big Tech’s toxic business model of surveillance advertising.

accountabletech.org

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I mean I generally wouldn't buy anything from a company that hides its own internal research, bans independent researchers, propels misinformation, spurs extremism, fuels violence, causes genocide, and then changes its name to Meta to try to distract from all the above.

The Washington Post

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Instagram is touting safety features for teens. Mental health advocates aren’t buying it.

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It took me like 10 takes to record this video. But all worth it to make clear how Google is aiding abortion prosecutors.

Accountable Tech

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Google is endangering abortion-seekers. Add your name to demand Google stop collecting location data and aiding abortion prosecutors:

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Zach Praiss

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This is a @CoriBush appreciation tweet.

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Good.

Bloomberg Law

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Meta was hit with $414 million in fines by the EU’s main privacy watchdog over the way users’ data is used for personalized ads on its Facebook and Instagram units.

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So much for his priority #1 .

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We wouldn't expect a parent to inspect an entire car when their child starts to drive for the first time. Why would we expect parents to do the same with social media? Such a good point from the @Surgeon_General :

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Key point: Google tracked location data even after users opted out.

Accountable Tech

@accountabletech

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Whoa. Google agreed to a $93 million settlement with the state of California after an @AP investigation found they tracked location data even after users opted out.

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Lol they're using a Google Form for processing requests. This used to be a $44 billion dollar company.

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Twitter launched their political ad disclosure page Unlike others which make all data downloadable/viewable, have to fill out a form & say which advertiser's info you want But how do you know which campaigns are advertising so the info can be requested?

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Zach Praiss

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Post-presidency perks: — Lifetime Secret Service protection — $200,000+ annual pension — $1,000,000 a year in travel expenses — Office space and staff expenses — Funeral ceremony with full honors Trump will get this all without impeachment and conviction.

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"Regulate guns, not women." — @JoeBiden

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We will have to tell our children that an archaic Senate rule blocked progress, facilitating the decline and destruction of our democracy and planet. How will they then explain it to their children who will face greater hardships than we can imagine with all we take for granted?

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There used to be a system for this. ✅

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Zach Praiss

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2 years

This is incredible. So excited to see @EmmaLembke , @zamaan_qureshi , @emi_not_emmy , @sneharevanur , and @julesterpak launch this youth-led coalition to take on Big Tech. They've already passed one law in California. The #DesignItForUs coalition is just getting started.

Design It For Us

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Shhhhhh…don’t tell Big Tech our game plan to pass policy for safer social media and online platforms for kids, teens, and young adults:

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Zach Praiss

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It's been 2 years since Facebook fueled the Stop the Steal movement and fomented the Capitol insurrection. Since then, Facebook hasn't increased election safeguards. Facebook hasn't even maintained the status quo. In fact, they're rolling back safeguards.

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That moment when Hillary Clinton tweets about your organization's petition. 😮 Only 13 hours left to add your name to @accountabletech 's petition urging the FTC to #BanSurveillanceAdvertising :

Hillary Clinton

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Big tech uses surveillance advertising to fuel their business model, keeping us in our filter bubbles and spreading misinformation as they silently profit off of our data. @onwardtogether partner @accountabletech is fighting back. Sign their petition:

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Big day for Meta. Can't wait to see how much they profited off the addiction and exploitation of kids.

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@ratemyskyperoom @accountabletech We may not always be high tech, but we're sure as heck always fighting to hold Big Tech accountable. And his handle is @Rish_Bharwani .

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Great seeing Saudi Arabia advertising in the feed. This is your reminder that they paid Elon Musk $1.89 BILLION in his acquisition of Twitter and we still don't know the special terms of their investment.

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Can't believe this 180 only took 9 days.

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how it started: how it’s going:

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Big Tech doesn't care about our democracy, our privacy, or our children. Just money.

Accountable Tech

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#BREAKING : Donald Trump posted on Facebook for the first time since he was suspended for 2 years for "use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government" in Mark Zuckerberg's own words.

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Zach Praiss

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how it started: how it’s going:

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An apology means nothing without action.

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Our team at @AccountableTech is hiring: A Communications Associate to develop and execute our comprehensive communications plans. ($55-$70k) A Digital Content Manager to lead our creation of digital content, including short-form videos, social media graphics, and other designed

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No shit. Big Tech's era of "self-regulation" must come to a close.

The Guardian

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TikTok ‘acting too slow’ to tackle self-harm and eating disorder content

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For $8/month, you can tweet almost whatever inflammatory and violent content you want now. And you get priority in the Twitter feed!

Accountable Tech

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Whoa. Twitter failed to remove hate speech by blue-check users in 99% of the instances @CCDHate reported.

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Meta is "disappointed" that state attorneys general are not working to create "age-appropriate standards" for teens online instead of suing the company according to @CaseyNewton . But Meta has fought to block the California Age-Appropriate Design Code?

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What Instagram says vs. what Instagram does.

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Big Tech's designs harm teens. The numbers are staggering: — 74% find themselves scrolling for too long — 59% get pulled back into apps after they log off by push notifications every day — 66% feel they are losing track of time on social media — Almost

Prevalence of Design Harms Among Young People - Accountable Tech

accountabletech.org

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Meta is blowing the door open to further attacks on our democracy.

Accountable Tech

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Absolutely shocking. After the social media platform was used to incite not one, but two insurrections, Facebook is now reverting back to allowing election disinformation in political advertising.

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"Those bragging about overturning Roe v. Wade have no clue about the power of women. But they found out when reproductive freedom was on the ballot." #SOTU

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Honestly thought this would be about the metaverse.

Facebook’s Bridge to Nowhere (Published 2023)

The tech giant had already remade the virtual world. For a brief period, it also tried to make it easier for people in the Bay Area to get to work. Then it gave up.

www.nytimes.com

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Sure, let's allow 1 billionaire to have complete control over 1̶ 2̶ 3̶ now 4 mass communications platforms although they've already incited 1̶ 2 insurrections.

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Incredible clip. Did you know @uber uses AI to charge consumers different amounts for the same trip? And pays drivers different amounts for the same trip? All to maximize corporate profits.

Accountable Tech

@accountabletech

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We’re sounding the alarm on AI’s harms to gig workers like @Uber ’s AI-driven systems that exploit drivers, offering them different payments for the same trip to maximize corporate profits. WATCH:

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"You can't love your country only when you win." #SOTU

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Do you feel like you keep paying more for Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and Netflix? You are. Big Tech companies keep hiking their monthly subscription prices *far above* the rate of inflation, exerting monopoly power to extract greater profits from consumers:

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Zach Praiss

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Humanity. Honesty. Humor. And Harry (her dog mentioned below). What more could you want from a boss who juggles it all and leads @accountabletech in our work to take on Big Tech.

Nicole Gill

@nicolelgill

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Today marks 1 year since I returned to work full time after maternity leave. It's been a wild ride figuring out how to do life + baby + work and there’s so much no one tells you. Here's a few things I wish I’d known that I thought I’d share in case it's helpful: 🧵

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Y'all literally just reverted back to allowing political ads with election disinformation. You're actively working to undermine trust and safety in elections.

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. @nickclegg just shared how Meta is working to prevent election and voter interference and provide industry-leading transparency around political ads for next year’s elections.

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Microsoft is a $3 trillion dollar company. Launching a $2 million fund to counter election deepfakes is the equivalent of me literally dropping some loose change.

Microsoft and OpenAI launch $2M fund to counter election deepfakes | TechCrunch

Microsoft and OpenAI have announced a $2 million fund to combat the growing risks of AI and deepfakes being used to "deceive the voters and undermine

techcrunch.com

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FCC restored net neutrality. FTC banned noncompetes. DOT required cash refunds for delayed flights. EPA limited carbon emissions from power plants. #ThanksBiden

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Here's an idea: Maybe we should listen to young people like @emmalembke and @zamaan_qureshi of @designitforus on how to best rein in Big Tech's harms to young people. "We need to establish standards that make platforms safer, not keep us off of them."

The Utah and Arkansas Social Media Bans Won’t Protect Us

Recently passed laws in Utah and Arkansas laws aren’t about tech accountability or children’s safety, write Emma Lembke and Zamaan Qureshi, both age 20.

gizmodo.com

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Incredible timing. @accountabletech flies a plane over #GoogleIO during @sundarpichai 's speech with a message: Protect Abortion Privacy.

James Clayton

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A plane flying over and over Google’s open air developer conference - with a message advocating abortion privacy

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Hang it up in the louvre.

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Meta is profiting off the addiction and exploitation of kids. 2 headlines from the last 24 hours:

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Ian Russell's daughter took her own life after viewing harmful content on Instagram. Listen to what he has to say about protecting kids online: "For children to be safe online, it’s not they who need to change – it’s the tech companies."

For children to be safe online, it’s not they who need to change – it’s the tech companies | Ian...

If the UK is strengthening the Online Safety Act, banning social media for under-16s is not the answer, says internet safety campaigner Ian Russell

www.theguardian.com

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Congrats to @designitforus for being nominated for the #Webbys . Take a minute to vote for this incredible youth-led coalition that's taking on Big Tech:

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We need more than a one sentence statement. We need real reform, accountability, and transparency.

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Another sign-on statement about the existential risks of AI- this one signed by Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and other company execs and a slew of academics. The single-sentence statement, coordinated by the Center for AI Safety, is here.

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