Thread by @accountabletech

It’s been a long year of continued challenges and threats to our information ecosystem.

We’re so proud of our work to hold Big Tech accountable and advocate for meaningful structural reforms to protect and advance democracy. Here are some highlights of our progress in 2022: 🧵

We joined partners and youth organizations to help pass the #CAKidsCode in California to require online platforms to prioritize young people’s safety by design and default. The bipartisan law offers a roadmap for more states to protect young users. nytimes.com/2022/09/15/bus…

We elevated youth activists and organizations like @logoffmovement by sharing the lived experiences of young people navigating Big Tech’s harms. We hosted a youth roundtable with @SenBlumenthal and partnered with young diverse digital creators to spread our campaigns online.

Although our campaign to #StopTheDeal of Musk’s Twitter takeover did not stop him from acquiring the company, we maintained pressure on Musk after he started rolling back Twitter’s safeguards, urging brands to stop advertising to #StopToxicTwitter. mediamatters.org/elon-musk/less…

We found Google is still retaining location data for users visiting abortion clinics despite their July policy update. We delivered 160k+ petition signatures to Google urging them to amend their data retention policies to protect users seeking abortions. theguardian.com/world/2022/nov…

We rallied support for the EU’s Digital Services Act #DSA and Digital Markets Act #DMA, which are already reining in Big Tech’s societal harms by curtailing their monopoly power and toxic business model of surveillance advertising.
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We couldn’t have done this all without our partners and grassroots supporters. Add your name to our email list to stay posted on our work in the year ahead: secure.everyaction.com/hQDygVV62kqMm4…