Hi there --

It’s Nicole Gill, the Executive Director of Accountable Tech. Let me be candid about why I’m sending you this email today:

Non-profit advocacy organizations like ours rely on a surge of giving at the end of the year to help sustain us. Our work is made possible with donations from individual supporters during the end-of-the-year push. So, during this crucial time, I’m asking for your help. But before I do, let me highlight three reasons why the work we’re doing at Accountable Tech is so important right now:

1. As a founding member of the #StopToxic Twitter coalition, we’re leading the charge to hold Elon Musk and Twitter accountable by urging advertisers to use their leverage to demand a safer platform for their brands and users. Major advertisers like Audi, Chipotle, General Mills, Ford, Jeep, Macy's, Pfizer, United, and many others have stopped advertising on the platform in response.
2. We’ve stepped up our advocacy to call on Meta to keep Donald Trump off Facebook when his two-year suspension expires on January 7, 2023. We’re headed into the new year with a campaign to hold Meta accountable if the company fails to to adhere to its own policies and standards.
3. Earlier this month, we dropped off a big stack of 160,000+ petition signatures to Google’s DC headquarters, calling on Google to stop unnecessarily collecting and retaining customer location data, which could be used by right-wing state governments to prosecute people seeking abortions. Location tracking is just one component of “surveillance advertising” – where Big Tech companies are invading our privacy and collecting as much information as possible about their biggest product: our time and attention.

We are headed into 2023 full steam ahead on these important advocacy efforts to hold Big Tech companies accountable for fueling the spread of hate and extremism and undermining our democracy. But we need your help, folks. If you are able to, please make an end-of-year donation to help us hit our end-of-year goal of 200 donations by clicking here:

Make Your End-of-Year Gift

Thank you for the work you’ve put in this year and the investment you’re making to protect the future of our digital landscape and democracy.

Together,

Nicole Gill
Co-Founder and Executive Director
Accountable Tech

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