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White House Holding Roundtable On Big Tech Regulations

By  |  September 8, 2022
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The White House on Thursday is holding a roundtable meeting on a number of technology issues hearing from experts on antitrust, privacy, algorithmic discrimination and other areas of tech policy, a senior administration official said on Twitter.

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    White House competition adviser Tim Wu on Twitter confirmed the meeting reported earlier by Axios.

    A source familiar told Reuters the meeting includes senior officials from a number of White House offices and is “focused on addressing the problems with tech platform accountability.”

    The meeting 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 considering a bill to rein in Big Tech. Supporters have been pressing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to schedule a vote on the bill that would ban self-preferencing by Big Tech platforms like Amazon and Alphabet’s Google.

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