Videos tagged with Tech Transparency Project

YouTube has updated its firearms policy, effective June 18, 2024, prohibiting content demonstrating the removal of safety devices and age-restricting content featuring homemade firearms and certain accessories. This change is attributed to pressure from anti-gun organizations like Everytown and the Tech Transparency Project, alongside legal actions and advocacy from groups like Giffords and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. Gun Owners of America (GOA) is actively engaging with Congress and YouTube to address these restrictions.

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has demanded YouTube meet with him to discuss changes to their algorithm and content moderation policies regarding "ghost gun" tutorials. Bragg claims these videos are being pushed to minors and violate YouTube's own guidelines, citing a Tech Transparency Project study. The DA is requesting a meeting to "curb the rise of ghost guns" and protect children, though the video's host argues this is an overreach and a form of political influence.

This video discusses how gun controllers and leftist organizations are targeting Facebook and Instagram for allegedly allowing ads that violate their own policies on promoting weapons. The Tech Transparency Project identified 173 ads in a two-week period that they claim promote firearms and accessories, despite platform rules. Meta, Facebook's parent company, responded by stating the number of ads is a small fraction of millions run and that the report uses a tiny sample size.