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Prominent Democratic lawmakers are urging the Biden administration to reject efforts by Big Tech to influence U.S. trade talks, warning that industry groups are trying to co-opt negotiations to evade regulations both at home and abroad
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Big Tech is trying to use trade policy to prevent governments from regulating AI, data privacy practices, and anti-competitive behavior more broadly. Take look at this analysis from :
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Linda is a tech policy expert & RFOB board member trying to get a UK visa. She was denied one some years ago.
We hope the UK government will welcome her with open arms this time.
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I am applying for a visa to the UK today, I wanna see if they will deny my request again like they did in 2018. Meanwhile you can provide seating at your waiting area TLS, we pay money for visas we cant be standing in a corridor for hours, woman here standing with child. Shame
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Tune in! April 27th 3pm ET. ⬇️
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We’ve done the work to track Facebook’s influence from Congressional halls to K-Street.
Join us in an online discussion as we unveil the Facebook Receipts. April 27th @ 3 PM ET w/ @davidcicilline @carolecadwalla @jason_kint @zamaan_qureshi @MarietjeSchaake @shoshanazuboffShow this thread
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New: The EU is drafting new rules to regulate artificial intelligence. But Big Tech is already lobbying hard to water them down: time.com/6273694/ai-reg
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If you used Facebook in the U.S between May 2007 and December 2022, you can apply to claim your share of a $725 million settlement that Facebook’s parent company agreed to pay to settle a class-action lawsuit. Here's how.
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We’ve done the work to track Facebook’s influence from Congressional halls to K-Street.
Join us in an online discussion as we unveil the Facebook Receipts. April 27th @ 3 PM ET w/ @davidcicilline @carolecadwalla @jason_kint @zamaan_qureshi @MarietjeSchaake @shoshanazuboffShow this thread
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🔴Not only is Facebook bad at detecting hate speech in English, it is worse when it comes to non-English languages.
explains why this is the case for & 👇
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Zuckerberg praises Meta executives a day after laying off 4,000 workers
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Facebook groups offering fake reviews on the likes of Amazon, Google and Trustpilot are persistent despite regulators’ demands that tech platforms do more to tackle the issue, according to an investigation by consumer group Which?
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"Should Meta’s algorithms be investigated? Absolutely. Does the Oversight Board’s recommendation have any consequence? Absolutely not. While it’s encouraging to see them scale up their demands, that’s not oversight — it’s PR."
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"Two years on, the Oversight Board’s one consequential decision, the “Trump Ban” has already been reversed — Trump is back on the platform. And according to their own statistics, Meta has only fully implemented a third of their recommendations"
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Statement: Meta’s Oversight Board Is Right to Recommend a Disinformation Inquiry, But It Has No Power to Make It Happen.
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🚨 Facebook continues to falls short on hate speech detection.
Cambridge uni researcher looks at how despite promises algorithms deployed by social media platforms perform poorly with hate detection, with exempting hate for commercial & political reasons.
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🔗 Stay tuned for a virtual link
📰 Press can RSVP by DM'ing or emailing media[@]the-citizens[.]com
😯 More details on our new research to come...
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Ok internet - do your thing. You can read in the nested threads how Facebook and its leadership paid nearly $6B to avoid a real reckoning. **Unless enough of you object by July 26, 2023.** - almost 280 million of you are eligible to do it. Be creative. facebookuserprivacysettlement.com/#faqs?id=17
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Well here it is. No accountability for Zuckerberg or Sandberg. No admission of liability. No public awareness to users if their data went to hostile countries. Nearly $6B in settlement payments. And NOW any US Facebook user from 2007 through 2022 can get their $$$ of latest. 1/2 twitter.com/jason_kint/sta…
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HOT OFF THE PRESS: New op-ed from our Co-Chairs and calls out Utah and Arkansas laws for letting Big Tech off the hook:
"We need to establish standards that make platforms safer, not keep us off of them."
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Round three. And facebook still doesn’t have to publicly report what is arguably the most important metric driving its eroding business model - how many users have opted out of tracking.
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UPDATE: An internal memo sent to Meta employees confirms our scoop that more layoffs are happening tmrw.
Employees in N. America will be notified by email starting at 4 am PT, according to a memo posted by Meta head of people Lori Goler.
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The FBI, Interpol and the UK’s National Crime Agency have accused Meta of making a “purposeful” decision to increase end-to-end encryption in a way that in effect “blindfolds” them to child sex abuse
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🔴 In an internal memo, the company told employees that the layoffs will start today and will impact a wide range of technical teams including those working on Facebook, Instagram, Reality Labs, and WhatsApp.
vox.com/technology/202 via
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UPDATE: An internal memo sent to Meta employees confirms our scoop that more layoffs are happening tmrw.
Employees in N. America will be notified by email starting at 4 am PT, according to a memo posted by Meta head of people Lori Goler.
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Not really surprising, given how much Meta gets wrong all the time.
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I don't think we've spent enough time marveling at the fact that Meta completely upended its business, renamed itself and insisted the metaverse was the Next Big Thing only to have AI prove that entirely wrong like six months later.
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"Around this time last year, Mark Zuckerberg was all in on the burgeoning possibilities of the metaverse — the very thing after which he renamed his company.
But, as his company embraces cost-cutting and loses billions of dollars in its efforts to bring virtual worlds to… Show more
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NEW: Facebook was warned. 💀
Posts inciting the murder of Abrham Meareg’s father in Ethiopia were flagged as urgent and dangerous by Meta's “trusted partner” – on a special channel and twice in meetings.
Read 's report for Insider:
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🚨🚨Big Story Alert🚨🚨
Facebook depends on local partners to flag hateful content. In Ethiopia, those partners say they were ignored. The consequences may have been deadly.
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👏 THIS from our core team member .
Tech companies have $$$ on their mind, and we don’t love it. It’s time they put users first when designing products and policy, not their wallets. #DesignItForUs
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WORD.
We need independent oversight on platforms.
It's crucial for our democracy, and urgent.
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Zuckerberg owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.
Elon Musk owns Twitter.
When multi-billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
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Honored to be in conversation this week with & in support of 's Self-Esteem Project to help make social media a safer experience for kids' mental health and well-being.
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Yooo @lizzo endorsed KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act) with @Dove.
We’re going to get #KidsOnlineSafety done whether it’s at the state or federal level. Big Tech’s era of self-regulation is over.
dove.com/us/en/stories/
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Big Tech is afraid of our growing movement.
We don’t have the 💰 these companies have, but we are part of a generation that isn’t playing around when it comes to fighting for the future we all deserve – including an internet that is designed for us. #DesignItForUs
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Our statement on the misguided Arkansas social media law
"To be clear, these are not kids' safety bills; they are parental surveillance bills...these bills let Big Tech off the hook for building products that exploit and addict young people for profit..."
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HAPPENING NOW: we're in court again with the the largest-ever hearing of content moderators – 183 – taking on Facebook's exploitation of content moderators in Kenya. Tune in live here:
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WATCH: Our Policy Manager joined and to show how Google is *still* collecting sensitive location data and endangering abortion-seekers. nbcnews.com/now/video/new-
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Meta workers have been alarmed by job cuts following over 26,000 layoffs in the past six months. Some executives have moved away and are managing teams from places like London and Tel Aviv. This has devastated morale, current and former employees say.
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An important, encouraging report from , pointing the way forward for confronting the concentration of tech power and shaping the trajectory of AI in the public interest.
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Today we launched AI Now’s 2023 Landscape Report. In it, we put forth an actionable policy strategy to confront concentration of power in the tech industry.
Read more: ainowinstitute.org/2023-landscape
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#SB287 is one of the most important tech policy bills this year. thanks for her leadership and urge California lawmakers to get it passed and signed to #ProtectCAKidsOnline!
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