Last Updated: September 08, 2022, 21:03 IST
Big tech corporations dealing with extra scrutiny
The White House on Thursday is holding a roundtable assembly on quite a few expertise points listening to from specialists on antitrust, privateness, algorithmic discrimination and different areas of tech coverage, a senior administration official mentioned on Twitter.
WASHINGTON: The White House on Thursday is holding a roundtable assembly on quite a few expertise points listening to from specialists on antitrust, privateness, algorithmic discrimination and different areas of tech coverage, a senior administration official mentioned on Twitter.
White House competitors adviser Tim Wu on Twitter confirmed the assembly reported earlier by Axios.
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A supply acquainted advised Reuters the assembly consists of senior officers from quite a few White House workplaces and is “focused on addressing the problems with tech platform accountability.”
The assembly is reviewing “various areas including competition; privacy; youth mental health; misinformation and disinformation; illegal and abusive conduct, including sexual exploitation; and algorithmic discrimination and lack of transparency.”
Congress has been contemplating a invoice to rein in Big Tech. Supporters have been urgent Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to schedule a vote on the invoice that might ban self-preferencing by Big Tech platforms like Amazon.com and Alphabet’s Google.
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