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The Tech Transparency Project (TTP) is a research initiative of @Accountable_Org that seeks to hold large technology companies accountable.

Washington, D.C. Katılım Şubat 2016
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Last month, TTP found that X was providing premium subscriptions to Iranian officials sanctioned by @USTreasury, a transaction that may violate sanctions. It didn't end there. An account for Iran's new supreme leader created this month also carries the blue premium checkmark.🧵
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Last month, TTP found that X was providing premium subscriptions to Iranian officials sanctioned by @USTreasury, a transaction that may violate sanctions. It didn't end there. An account for Iran's new supreme leader created this month also carries the blue premium checkmark.🧵
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X's removal of the blue verification mark came weeks ago after @TTP_updates and @daithaigilbert reported that X may be violating sanctions by providing premium perks for paid subscriptions. Araghchi had the blue paid mark, not the free gray one for govs. x.com/TTP_updates/st…
Ryan Grim@ryangrim

Looks like @elonmusk took the verification check away from Iran’s foreign minister. Only result will be to generate confusion and misinformation.

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NEW: Following TTP’s August 2025 report on how Meta funds and uses groups like the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) to help shift the narrative around its products’ impact on kids, the PTA has announced an end to its Meta partnership—citing “heightened public scrutiny.”
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As @JonHaidt points out, tech execs protect their own kids from the products they push on yours. And it goes beyond time at home. As TTP's Katie Paul points out in a 2023 op-ed for @FastCompany, many execs send their kids to screen-free private schools. fastcompany.com/90900166/tech-…
Jonathan Haidt@JonHaidt

Peter Thiel confirms that tech execs generally place severe restrictions on tech use by their own children. His limit for his kids: 1.5 hours per week. (kids were 3.5 and 5 at the time) As we say in The Amazing Generation, the "tech wizards" want YOUR kids to spend all day.

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This isn't the first time a tech-funded entity masquerading as a grassroots effort has tried to pull one over on state lawmakers. In a 2023 hearing, tech-funded NetChoice VP Carl Szabo introduced himself as a “Maryland resident” and parent. Minutes later, a rep called him on it.
Julie Barrett@juliecbarrett

The Digital Childhood Alliance is the Meta-funded org pushing for the App Store Accountability Act in states across the country at in Congress. Today, the DCA Executive Director was asked by the Georgia Senate Committee on Children and Families if they are funded by Meta as was stated by a previous testifier... It's a yes or no question, ma'am.

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