Backgrounder: US Senate Judiciary Committee to Grill Tech CEOs on Child Safety

On January 31, 2024, the logo of social media companies testified by the U. S. Senate judicial committee.

At the end of this month, a technical executive of five major social media platform companies will go to the US Federal Congress at the end of this month to testify each platform to protect children from online sexual exploitation. At the Senate judicial committee on January 31, 2024, CEO of Discovery, Meta, Snap, Tiktok, and X (former Twitter) will attend:

• Jason Citron (Discord CEO)
• Mark Zuckerberg (Meta CEO)
• Evan Spiegel (Snap CEO)
• Shu Gee Chu (Tiktok CEO)
• Linda Yakkarino (X CEO)

META and Tiktok's CEOs agreed spontaneously, but Discord, Snap, and X CEOs were summoned because the committee rejected it for several weeks. According to the committee, this includes a failure that the US Bureau of Security tried to deliver a summoning letter to the discord office. The representatives of Google and YouTube will not participate in this public hearing as witnesses.

This public hearing is held on the background of the growing momentum of the enactment of the Child online Safety Law. In 2023, the Kids Online Safety Law (KOSA) and the Children and Youth Online Privacy Protection Law (COPPA2. 0) were all approved by the Senate Commercial Committee. It is a bipartisan problem of sexual exploitation of children on the Internet, and the merits are almost a problem with all the opinions, so call the most famous person in the technology industry to Congress, what to do on the Internet. Discussing whether children can stop sexual exploitation in this can be a political strategy to gain support for the bill.

The Senate Judicial Committee also held a hearing on the protection of an online child in February last year, with missing the United States and missing the U. S. Psychological Society (APA), Social Media Reform Proposists, etc. I attended as a reference person. Since last year's public hearing, in addition to KOSA and COPPA 2. 0, the Senator has submitted many bills to prevent children online.

• STOP CSAM Law This bill enables online exploitation victims to sue the social media platform that promotes or promotes abuse, and the victim deletes child sexual abuse (CSAM) to technology companies. It facilitates what you want and enhances the report requirements for the cyber tip line. The bill unanimously proceeded to the Senate on May 11, 2023.
• THE ELIMINATING ABUSIVE AND RAMPANT NEGLECT OF Interactive Technologies Act (Earn It Act) has set up a "National Committee on Online Children's Equipment" Revise Article 0 to CSAM It narrows the responsibilities of the platform for related claims. Several versions of the bill were submitted to the Senate Judicial Committee until 2020, all unanimously passed the Senate Judicial Committee.
• SHIELD: Stopping Harmfer Image Exploitation And Limiting Distribution (Shield) is established a "intimacy visual description" without a person's consent, that is, a federal responsibility for both individuals who distributed nude. An explicit image It fills the gap between the current law to prosecute the shared person. The bill was approved on May 11, 2023 by the Senate Judicial Committee.
• Project Safe Child Duff Law: This bill modernize investigations and prosecutions of online child exploitation crimes, and federal prosecutors and law execution agencies cooperate using new technologies to prompt rescue of child victims. And enables the arrest of criminals. The bill passed the Senate on October 24, 2023, but the House of Representatives now has no related bills.
• The Report Act (Report Law): This bill requires that if the e-communication service provider has violated the violation, this bill is required to submit a report to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) on an online. It changes the rules for reporting crimes related to child sexual exploitation. In addition, the period in which the provider must save the contents of the report is extended from 90 days to 1 year, and the legal penalty for knowing CSAM to be intentionally enhanced, and the child's sexual duty is required. It expands to human trafficking and forced and tempted for minors. The Report law passed the Senate plenary session on December 14, 2023, but now the House of Representatives has no bills corresponding to the law.

Prior to the hearing, Tech Policy Press has taken what means to compete with children's exploitation and sexual abuse materials, reporting options, known detection technologies, and transparency, etc. We have collected information on each company to attend, such as the main backgrounds of each company and the policy of each company on child online safety. Our reviews include a recent controversy related to the safety of children, involving each social media platform heading to the parliament.

Platform Profiles

Discord

What is Discord? Discord claims to be the easiest way to talk with friends and communities to communicate with friends and communities in a distributed social messaging platform without ads. Known as a gamer hub, many other organizations and individuals use this service.

Policy: Discord clearly expresses a policy for CSAM for "containing photoristic CSAM generated by AI". It also has a "zero trainance policy against inappropriate sexual sex with children and grooming", and has been particularly paying attention to the temptation in online and sophistications such as "sex."

Main CSAM detection technology: open source image analysis AI model of Photodna and Discord.

How to report a policy violation: Discord is to press and hold a message on mobile, and on the desktop, righ t-click the message and select "Report a message" to report inappropriate messages and content in the app. can. In addition, Discord has a "guardian hub" and provides resources not only to educators but also to parents, such as how to contact the platform for policy violations.

Transparency: Discord reports in a transparent report on online safety, reports, accounts and servers related to CSAM, child exploitation, and other child safety issues. From these reports, it is not easy to distinguish the relative penetration rate of different children's safety issues, but in the fourth quarter, 416, 036 reports related to "child safety", "regulations or illegal activities. There were 191, 779 reports related to. Discord also has a team that focuses only on the safety of children and a specialized engineering team for safety efforts.

Documented issues and concerns

"Sex" in the hidden community and the child's glooming: NBC News In a survey in June 2023, adult users on Discord use chat rooms and hidden communities before kidnapping children, or CSAM. It was revealed that he had traded and cheated minors to send nude images. Also called "SexTortion". According to the report, since the online game hub was established in 2017, communication on Discord has been involved in more than 35 cases that adults have been charged with abduction, glooming, and sexual assault. In addition, 165 charges, including four criminal organizations, were involved in adults transmitting and receiving CSAM via Discord and "sex".

The Canadian Children's Protection Center (C3P) reported in the NBC news that these surveys were "just a corner of the iceberg," and the number of reports that they had invited children in Discord has increased. Predators often connected to children on other platforms such as Roblox and Minecraft, and then communicated directly to Discord, a "closed environment." In response to the NBC news report, Discord banned the dating server for teens and the CSAM generated by AI.

A few months after the survey, in October 2023, John Red Grave, responsible for Discord's trust and safety, said the risk of Genelisty, the risk of the rapid diffusion of CSAM online, in response to Semafor interviews. He talked to the team to the team that has a team specializing in the involvement of law enforcement and the technology for CSAM detection. According to Red Grave, the technology is mainly used in still images, but it can be extended to videos with sufficient efforts. "The engineer can do it magically," he told Semafor. It is unknown whether there was progress in this respect.

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Meta

• Established: 2004
• Product Facebook, Instagram, Watt s-up
• Leadership Mark Zuckerberg CEO

Overview Facebook is a social networking site where users can share information and media with friends and family. Instagram is a video and photo sharing app that can be edited by filter, organized by hashtag, and tags by region. META is owned and operated by subsidiaries such as Threads and WhatsApp.

In the "child's sexual exploitation, abuse, nude" policy of Policy Meta, "children's sexual exploitation (real, infants, babies, arts, AI generated content, fictional characters, dolls, and dolls, etc. Contents and activities that threaten, describe, praise, provide instructions, give instructions, gratitude, and share links, and share links. He says that he does not allow "exchange". A specific no n-child abuse act by law execution and military officials, images posted by the news agency depicting children nude in the context of famine, massacre, war crimes, and humanity. Provides content warning screen.

CSAM detection technology: PDQ and TMK+PDQF, Photodna, Content Safety API, Take It Down

How to report a policy violation: Facebook encourages users to contact the local police authorities first, expand their photos and videos in full size, and select a report on the overflow menu to directly report them to Facebook. 。 He also calls on NCMEC using CyberTiPline and emphasizes not to share, download, or comment on content.

Transparency: Meta issues a community standard for each quarter, there are items related to "child dangers": nude, physical abuse, sexual exploitation. Some interactive data In the third quarter report, including visualization, the company emphasized that the CSAM takedown rate rose from 97 % in the second quarter to 99 %. A blog post that emphasizes whether it is preventing "is also published as needed.

Documented issues and concerns

Instagram SG-CSAM June 2023, Stanford Internet Obserbathory (SIO) has a large-scale network of social media accounts, which is said to be operated by minors, and is self-made child sexual abuse. We have published a report that identifies the material (SG-CSAM) openly. Instagram is a platform that is preferred by buyers and sellers, and the recommendation algorithm is the main reason for the effectiveness of the network. Meta responded by installing an internal task force to investigate the report in the report. In addition, the function to disable CSAM warning has been deleted, and potential buyers have "seen the results anyway". Despite these changes, SIO researchers have evolved in the network tactics a few months later, and are perfect for relieving these shifts to relieve rapidly adapted SG-CSAM network. It was discovered that active precautions by human investigators were needed.

New Mexico suggested Met a-sha in December 2023, and Mark, CEO, which is Meta and his CEO, as the Secretar y-General Raul Trez of New Mexico did not protect the children from sexual abuse, solicitation, and trafficking. ・ Suckerberg sued in a 22 5-page lawsuit. This lawsuit claims that Facebook and Instagram are called "hotbeds" of children's abbreviors, which led to the defect design of Instagram and Facebook, which recommended minor users a CSAM and child strategy account. I'm doing it. In response to this complaint, Meta's spokeswoman said to Bloomberg Law, "In August 2023, more than 500, 000 accounts were invalidated by violating child safety policies" and "7. 6 million in the third quarter of 2023. The report of child exploitation was sent to the missing and exploitation children's center. "

In January 2024, the court announced almost no correction of the prosecutor's prosecutor, New Mexico. Later, new information was revealed about how much inappropriate content was shared between adults and minors. According to Meta's i n-house presentation in 2021, 100, 000 children were receiving online sexual harassment on the company's platform every day, including photos of adult genitals. Meta also knows that its own platforms are popular with 6-yea r-old children, and by 2022 to achieve the goal of making Facebook Messenger a major messaging app for children. It was also revealed that he was utilizing. On the other hand, on Instagram, Meta's employees pointed out that CEXSTalk, which targets minors through direct messages, is 38 times more popular than messenger.

Congressional appearances

Former Global Safety Director of Meta testifies the harm of mental health. Antigone Davis, a director in charge of Meta's global safety, testified on September 30, 2021 at the U. S. House of Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. The title of this public hearing is "Protection of Children online": Facebook, Instagram, Mental Health harm, based on whispering documents, Facebook researchers are the company's Instagram. ・ It was revealed that the app had a negative effect on the body image of a teenage girl and knew that it had worsened mental health problems. This hearing was more commonly related to child sexual abuse on the platform of meta, but more common children's online safety.

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Snapchat

What is it? In the instant messaging app, users can exchange photos and videos (snaps).

CSAM detection technology: Photodna, Google's child gender abuse image match, take it down

Policy Snapchat banned children's sexual exploitation, the sharing of abuse images, grooming, and sexual extortion ("SexTortion"), and all cases have been reported to the authorities. Sexual exploitation includes sexual trafficking, forcing or temptating to provide nude to users, and using intimate images and sexual materials to pressure and threaten users. But the communication of minors who aim for sexual abuse and "use fear and shame to silence minors" are also prohibited by Snapchat.

How to report a policy violation: Snapchat offers a report in the app, and users can also report concerns from the resourc e-specific pages for guardian safety.

Transparency: Snap chat publishes a transparency report twice a year in accordance with the European Union's Digital Service Law, which was enforced in the larg e-scale online platform in late 2023. The Snap Chat has published a transparency report since 2015, expanding it in June 2020 to include CSAM reports. In a transparency report covering the first half of 2023, Snapchat stated that "we have actively detected and dealt with 98 % of the sexual exploitation and abuse reported here." This increased by 4 % from the previous term. It is said that nearly 230, 000 accounts have been deleted over the sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEAI) of children in six months. < SPAN> Wall Street Journal: Meta struggling to get out of pedestrian from Facebook and Instagram

Documented issues and concerns

Wall Street Journal Instagram algorithms and harmful video mixes to adults following children

Guardian newspaper: How Facebook and Instagram have become a child sexual trading market

What is it? In the instant messaging app, users can exchange photos and videos (snaps).

Congressional appearances

CSAM detection technology: Photodna, Google's child gender abuse image match, take it down

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• Policy Snapchat banned children's sexual exploitation, the sharing of abuse images, grooming, and sexual extortion ("SexTortion"), and all cases have been reported to the authorities. Sexual exploitation includes sexual trafficking, forcing or temptating to provide nude to users, and using intimate images and sexual materials to pressure and threaten users. But the communication of minors who aim for sexual abuse and "use fear and shame to silence minors" are also prohibited by Snapchat.
• How to report a policy violation: Snapchat offers a report in the app, and users can also report concerns from the resourc e-specific pages for guardian safety.

TikTok

Transparency: Snap chat publishes a transparency report twice a year in accordance with the European Union's Digital Service Law, which was enforced in the larg e-scale online platform in late 2023. The Snap Chat has published a transparency report since 2015, expanding it in June 2020 to include CSAM reports. In a transparency report covering the first half of 2023, Snapchat stated that "we have actively detected and dealt with 98 % of the sexual exploitation and abuse reported here." This increased by 4 % from the previous term. It is said that nearly 230, 000 accounts have been deleted over the sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEAI) of children in six months. Wall Street Journal: Meta struggles to get out of Pediatric Patriot from Facebook and Instagram

Wall Street Journal Instagram algorithms and harmful video mixes to adults following children

Guardian newspaper: How Facebook and Instagram have become a child sexual trading market

What is it? In the instant messaging app, users can exchange photos and videos (snaps).

CSAM detection technology: Photodna, Google's child gender abuse image match, take it down

Documented issues and concerns

Policy Snapchat banned children's sexual exploitation, the sharing of abuse images, grooming, and sexual extortion ("SexTortion"), and all cases have been reported to the authorities. Sexual exploitation includes sexual trafficking, forcing or temptating to provide nude to users, and using intimate images and sexual materials to pressure and threaten users. But the communication of minors who aim for sexual abuse and "use fear and shame to silence minors" are also prohibited by Snapchat.

How to report a policy violation: Snapchat offers a report in the app, and users can also report concerns from the resourc e-specific pages for guardian safety.

Transparency: Snap chat publishes a transparency report twice a year in accordance with the European Union's Digital Service Law, which was enforced in the larg e-scale online platform in late 2023. The Snap Chat has published a transparency report since 2015, expanding it in June 2020 to include CSAM reports. In a transparency report covering the first half of 2023, Snapchat stated that "we have actively detected and dealt with 98 % of the sexual exploitation and abuse reported here." This increased by 4 % from the previous term. It is said that nearly 230, 000 accounts have been deleted over the sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEAI) of children in six months.

Congressional appearances

In the CSAM video on the platform 2020, PARENTSTOGETHER, a national guardian organization, has filed a petition for the use of CSAM scanning technology in snap chat and seeks not only images but also videos. At the time of submitting a petition, 92 % of Snapchat's use r-based was 12 to 17 years old, and the app was watching 1. 4 billion videos every day. This petition is signed by more than 100, 000 parents, which is due to frequent cases related to videos of "sex" and sexual abuse of minors. In response to the petition, Snap Chat expanded the screening in August 2020. Nevertheless, according to PARENTSTOGETHER's report published in 2023, "Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat have been named the sexual demands and SexTortion platforms."

My AI's Lone Lones last February, Snapchat announced my AI, a frien d-like chatbot that works with Openai's GPT technology. In less than a few months, researchers have given advice on how to lie to a 1 3-yea r-old Snapchat Plus user on how to lie to parents and how to lie to their parents. did. Snapchat accused the child as an AI experimental bench and promised to add parental control to chatbot. This parental control included that My AI restricted to prevent chatting with teenagers.

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• Snap, Vice President Jennifer Stout, (Global Policy), testified on October 26, 2021 at a hearing on the Protection of Children online by the U. S. Hospital Commercial, Science and Transportation Committee. Stout says that snap chat is already a "social media antidote" because it has already focused on the connection between acquaintances, and that it is a privacy to delete images and messages by default. Ta. Mr. Stout said to Congress that snapers need social media regulations, but the speed of technological development means "regulation alone cannot accomplish work."

X (formerly Twitter)

Wall Street Journal: A teenage boy is caught by Snapchat's nude photo scams. This is how to avoid it.

The Washington Post: Snapchat tried to create a safe AI. It chat with me about alcohol and sex.

What is tiktok? Tiktok is a short video app that users can create, watch, and share videos for 15 seconds to 3 minutes.

CSAM detection technology: Photodna, Content Safety API, CSAI Match

Policy: Tiktok states that there is no childhood abuse and a minor (under the age of 18) for sexual content. A minor's sexual content or child sexual abuse material (CSAM) refers to explicit assault and child exploitation visual, textbook, hearing depiction or production. Finding, browsing, creating, and sharing such content is illegal, exposing minors and society to extreme danger.

How to report policy violation: Inhope, Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a common partner organization in the app, NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING & AMP; You can report through EC) 。

Documented issues and concerns

Transparency: Tiktok has created a variety of reports categorized by topics, such as the "Digital Service Law", "Information Requests", and "Deletion request by the government" twice a year. In the first DSA transparency report announced in October 2023, Tiktok sel f-reported that it had taken 1, 740 measures to illegal "chil d-sex exploitation" content.

Third-Party Moderators Exposed to CSAM Content. In August 2022, Forbes reported that content moderators hired to train TikTok's AI to spot the "worst stuff" posted to the app were shown graphic images and videos of child sexual exploitation in a training exercise. Employees of third-party moderation company Teleperformance claimed that TikTok asked them to review a "Daily Required Reading" spreadsheet filled with content that violated TikTok's community guidelines. The document contained numerous images of naked and sexually abused children and was allegedly easily accessible to at least hundreds of TikTok and Teleperformance employees. Both companies deny the allegations that their training materials contain CSAM, and TikTok has said that its training materials have strict access controls, but little has been revealed about what those tools and controls are.

Enabling CSAM through certain products and features. According to a Forbes investigation, TikTok's Post-in-Private accounts allowed predators and underage victims of sexual exploitation to meet and share illicit images. According to the report, these product features highlighted how TikTok struggles to enforce its own "zero tolerance" policy against CSAM, in addition to "major moderation blind spots" like easily avoiding banned accounts.

TikTok's other product features have come under fire, including prompting an investigation by the U. S. government. In 2022, it came to light that child predators were exploiting TikTok's "Only Me" video setting, which allows users to save TikTok clips without publishing them online, by posting CSAM videos to "Only Me" and sharing passwords to private accounts. And early last year, a Wall Street Journal investigation found that TikTok's algorithms were recommending more of the same videos to adults who watch young people's videos, making them ripe for sexual exploitation. Two weeks after the Wall Street Journal report, TikTok rolled out a series of new features designed for teens and families, including automatically setting a 60-minute time limit for users under 18, allowing parents to set mute notification schedules, and adding a "sleep reminder" feature. The company stressed that these features are "in addition to the robust existing safety settings for teen accounts," which include making accounts "private by default" for users under 16 and restricting direct messages to users 16 and over.

Tiktok's CEO of Tiktok attended the House of Representatives Energy and Commercial Committee on March 23, 2023. The title of the hearing is "Tiktok": How Congress Can Safeguard American Data Protect Children from Online Harms " The focus is on the impact on the offerings I was hit.

In October 2021, TIKTOK's vice president and US public policy Officer Michael Beckerman said with Snapchat and YouTube executives at the U. S. House of Representatives, Science, and Transport Committee "Protection of Children online". I attended. Beckerman stated that he focused on "direct communication" and focuses on "content that enhances mood and entertain" as a reason for distinguishing Tiktok from other social media platforms. The members of the Diet asked Beckerman to see if Tiktok's ownership would not be exposed to the Chinese government.

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Policy: X's official "Policy on Sexual Exploration of Children" was published on the website in October 2020. The policy states that "X is a zero tray for any material that features sexual exploitation of children, including media, text, illustrations, and CG." 。 It is also applied to content that "promotes or beautifies child sexual exploitation".

The policy was later updated in December 2023, reflecting activities to deal with online children's sexual exploitation. This update states that using hash matching technology has automated images, videos, GIF CSAM materials and NCMEC CyberTipline reports. As a result, the stop of content and user accounts was automatically implemented, and a report "without human resources" was sent. X also blocks users who search for general child gender exploitation (CSE) terms.

State of Play

How to report a policy violation: X provides a form for users to report the "child sexual exploitation problem". It can also report issues on children's safety, such as posting, advertising, list, user profile, directly from child sexual exploitation, grooming, physical abuse, and minor users. In most cases, if you violate it, you will be immediately stopped, but a complaint form is provided.

Transparency: X's 'Transparent Report' Center was first opened in 2012 and covers various topics such as 'information requests', 'copyright notification', and 'delete request'. The last report in this format was announced in 2022. The latest report was issued for the first time under the ownership of the Ylon Musk, and was issued to comply with the digital service law aimed at X, which does not want to cooperate with the duty of transparency. The DSA Compliance Report was announced by X last October, listing the "sexual exploitation of children" (CSE) by detection, execution, and country.

In the spring of 2022, social media companies are quietly examining users to monetize the adult content posted on the site, in parallel with the sale to the Iron Mask at the time. Ta. According to a survey in The Verge magazine, Twitter hoped to directly compete with the adaldic content creator's hub, ONLYFANS, which was evaluated as $ 2. 5 billion (about 220 billion yen) that year. Some people were worried about the opposition from the advertiser, but it was a more serious problem that the plan eventually failed: Twitter, according to their own red team, and the sexual exploitation of children. It was not possible to accurately detect nude without agreement. "If Twitter cannot consistently delete child gender exploitation content on the platform today, how can pornography be started? < SPAN> Policy violation method: X is X. We provide forms for users to report the "child's sexual exploitation problem". It can also report issues on children's safety, such as posting, advertising, list, user profile, directly from child sexual exploitation, grooming, physical abuse, and minor users. In most cases, if you violate it, you will be immediately stopped, but a complaint form is provided.

Transparency: X's 'Transparent Report' Center was first opened in 2012 and covers various topics such as 'information requests', 'copyright notification', and 'delete request'. The last report in this format was announced in 2022. The latest report was issued for the first time under the ownership of the Ylon Musk, and was issued to comply with the digital service law aimed at X, which does not want to cooperate with the duty of transparency. The DSA Compliance Report was announced by X last October, listing the "sexual exploitation of children" (CSE) by detection, execution, and country.

In the spring of 2022, social media companies are quietly examining users to monetize the adult content posted on the site, in parallel with the sale to the Iron Mask at the time. Ta. According to a survey in The Verge magazine, Twitter hoped to directly compete with the adaldic content creator's hub, ONLYFANS, which was evaluated as $ 2. 5 billion (about 220 billion yen) that year. Some people were worried about the opposition from the advertiser, but it was a more serious problem that the plan eventually failed: Twitter, according to their own red team, and the sexual exploitation of children. It was not possible to accurately detect nude without agreement. "If Twitter cannot consistently delete child gender exploitation content on the platform today, how can pornography be started? How to report a policy violation: X is" X ". We provide forms to report the "child's sexual exploitation problem". It can also report issues on children's safety, such as posting, advertising, list, user profile, directly from child sexual exploitation, grooming, physical abuse, and minor users. In most cases, if you violate it, you will be immediately stopped, but a complaint form is provided.

Transparency: X's 'Transparent Report' Center was first opened in 2012 and covers various topics such as 'information requests', 'copyright notification', and 'delete request'. The last report in this format was announced in 2022. The latest report was issued for the first time under the ownership of the Ylon Musk, and was issued to comply with the digital service law aimed at X, which does not want to cooperate with the duty of transparency. The DSA Compliance Report was announced by X last October, listing the "sexual exploitation of children" (CSE) by detection, execution, and country.

In the spring of 2022, social media companies are quietly examining users to monetize the adult content posted on the site, in parallel with the sale to the Iron Mask at the time. Ta. According to a survey in The Verge magazine, Twitter hoped to directly compete with the adaldic content creator's hub, ONLYFANS, which was evaluated as $ 2. 5 billion (about 220 billion yen) that year. Some people were worried about the opposition from the advertiser, but it was a more serious problem that the plan eventually failed: Twitter, according to their own red team, and the sexual exploitation of children. It was not possible to accurately detect nude without agreement. "If Twitter cannot consistently delete child gender exploitation content on the platform today, how can pornography be started?

Layoffs to Trust and Safety Teams In October 2022, Elon Musk officially bought Twitter (since renamed X) for a whopping $44 billion after lawsuits, whistleblowers, and a tumultuous acquisition spree. Less than a month later, the CSAM reporting team was dismantled, going from 20 members to fewer than 10, despite Musk saying that eliminating child exploitation on the platform was his top priority, according to Bloomberg. Further reporting by Wired revealed that the dedicated team for removing CSAM in Japan and the Asia-Pacific region had only one full-time employee left.

A former employee at Twitter's Singapore branch told Channel News Asia that the cuts were linked to the social media company's shift to automating many of its child safety measures. This included automatically removing posts flagged by "trusted reporters," i. e. accounts with a track record of accurately flagging harmful posts. The former employee told the news site that the accuracy of these reports is "about 10 percent for any type of policy violation." These automated processes also often lack the nuance necessary to identify "benign use" of language related to child sexual exploitation, track the creation of new CSAM, and identify sexual solicitations to minors.

In December 2022, Musk disbanded the Trust and Safety Council, a volunteer group that provided the company with expert advice on online safety, including child sexual exploitation.

Sale of CSAM on the platform In January 2023, an NBC News investigation found that "at least dozens of accounts continue to collectively post hundreds of tweets using terms, abbreviations, and hashtags that indicate the sale of what Twitter calls child sexual exploitation material." While some of the tweets and accounts remained up for months, other accounts "appear to have been posted by people who quickly deleted the tweets, likely to avoid detection, and then later posted similar offers from the same accounts." In response to the reports, Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) called on the Department of Justice to review Twitter's handling of CSAM to determine whether the company's actions merit further investigation.

Also, in February 2023, The New York Times published a study evaluating Twitter's efforts to remove CSAM. The results found that child sexual abuse images were widely circulated on Twitter, including a video showing a boy being sexually assaulted that had been viewed more than 120, 000 times. The Times noted that CSAM was not only easy to find, but that Twitter was actively promoting it through its recommendation algorithms.

Researchers from the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) then found dozens of images on Twitter that had previously been flagged as CSAM using PhotoDNA, a database used by social media companies to sift through content posted to their platforms. Twitter failed to take action at the time these images were uploaded, and "in some cases, accounts that posted known CSAM images remained active until multiple violations occurred." Twitter fixed the database issue on May 20, 2023, but the change was made after the researchers were able to notify Twitter through a third-party intermediary, as they could not find contact with Twitter's Trust and Safety team.

SIO researchers also identified 128 accounts advertising the sale of self-created CSAM (SG-CSAM) on Twitter, many of which appear to be operated by minors. Most of the accounts were removed within a week, but 22 of the original 128 were still active a month later after being reported to government authorities. Twitter's recommendation system also presented two to three related accounts that may be "sellers" of SG-CSAM. As the researchers note, "given that nudity is permitted on Twitter, it is likely that explicit and illegal content will be posted or distributed before an account is suspended."

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Updated January 26, 2024 Snapchat's "profile" has been updated to reflect additional technology it uses to detect CSAM on its platform and the reporting mechanism it provides through its Parental Resource Center.

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FACT's provisional secretar y-general stated that the lower house revision was passed last week:

• "Congress is now trying to enact historical reforms to protect financial systems from abuse. [...]
• "The House of Representatives has agreed twice in the abolition of anonymous companies and updating the Money Laundering Prevention Act, and the most important Republican and Democratic Party have agreed on the same bill last month.
• "In order to make money laundering measures modern, discussions and unrealists have been repeated in Washington for more than 10 years, but in 2020, the rules of money laundering have been improved, and crimes and corruptions have been damaged. It is a historic opportunity to protect society and companies better and ensure the soundness of the financial system.
• Support for reform continues to grow outside of Congress. The United States Justice Association (NAAG) supported the same transparency bill last month in a letter signed by a 4 2-bosal judicial Secretary. < SPAN> A campaign for more than 10 years to abolish the establishment of anonymous paper company in the United States is approaching the goal. National security experts and law execution officials have an anonymous paper company misused by fraudulent nations, terrorists, and criminals on a daily basis, escapes Japan sanctions, damages national security, and implements crimes calmly. He warned that he was. In response to the advice, the U. S. House of Representatives added the Corporate Transparency Law last week as a proposal for the 2021 Female Defense Rights Law.

The Senator Mike Krapu (Republican), the top Republican Republican of the Senate Bank Commission, and the Senator Cherod Brown (Democratic Party), the Democratic Party's top, in cooperation with the Trump administration and the additional members of the two parties, anonymously. He has recently agreed on similar bills to suppress corporate abuse and update the Money Laundering Prevention Act in Japan.

FACT's provisional secretar y-general stated that the lower house revision was passed last week:

• "Congress is now trying to enact historical reforms to protect financial systems from abuse. [...]
• "The House of Representatives has agreed twice in the abolition of anonymous companies and updating the Money Laundering Prevention Act, and the most important Republican and Democratic Party have agreed on the same bill last month.
• "In order to make money laundering measures modern, discussions and unrealists have been repeated in Washington for more than 10 years, but in 2020, the rules of money laundering have been improved, and crimes and corruptions have been damaged. It is a historic opportunity to protect society and companies better and ensure the soundness of the financial system.
• Support for reform continues to grow outside of Congress. The United States Justice Association (NAAG) supported the same transparency bill last month in a letter signed by a 4 2-bosal judicial Secretary. A campaign for over 10 years is approaching the goal to abolish the establishment of anonymous paper company in the United States. National security experts and law execution officials have an anonymous paper company misused by fraudulent nations, terrorists, and criminals on a daily basis, escapes Japan sanctions, damages national security, and implements crimes calmly. He warned that he was. In response to the advice, the U. S. House of Representatives added the Corporate Transparency Law last week as a proposal for the 2021 Female Defense Rights Law.
• The Senator Mike Krapu (Republican), the top Republican Republican of the Senate Bank Commission, and the Senator Cherod Brown (Democratic Party), the Democratic Party's top, in cooperation with the Trump administration and the additional members of the two parties, anonymously. He has recently agreed on similar bills to suppress corporate abuse and update the Money Laundering Prevention Act in Japan.
• FACT's provisional secretar y-general stated that the lower house revision was passed last week:
• "Congress is now trying to enact historical reforms to protect financial systems from abuse. [...]
• "The House of Representatives has agreed twice in the abolition of anonymous companies and updating the Money Laundering Prevention Act, and the most important Republican and Democratic Party have agreed on the same bill last month.
• "In order to make money laundering measures modern, discussions and unrealists have been repeated in Washington for more than 10 years, but in 2020, the rules of money laundering have been improved, and crimes and corruptions have been damaged. It is a historic opportunity to protect society and companies better and ensure the soundness of the financial system.
• Support for reform continues to grow outside of Congress. The United States Justice Association (NAAG) supported the same transparency bill last month in a letter signed by a 4 2-bosal judicial Secretary.
• Not only the extensive support of law executives and national security experts, but also support from the business world. In June, major business organizations such as the US International Business Council (USCIB), the US foreign trade council (NFTC), the Safe Proof, and The Bee Team will fight against damage to business due to illegal transactions. A letter supporting this bill was sent to the Senate Guidance Department. The most notable is that the United States Chamber of Commerce has opposed an anonymous corporate countermeasure bill for more than 10 years, but has sent a letter to the Senator in June.
• Tax transparency

The momentum for the transparency of multinational companies is growing inside and outside the ring road.

"The currently ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has broken political and economic paradigm, which has dominated global discussions for the past 40 years, which has been caused by competition to the bottom of the global tax system. Exposed the influence of the outflow, and the ta x-hired tax threats to promote employment outsourcing are also revealed. A letter that supported a large listed company to the Congress that supports the public tax and financial information for each country (H. R. 5933 / S. 1609) has been submitted to Congress.

Each group will continue:

"Before this crisis, in the United States and other countries, multinational companies have transfers their profits using tax law provisions, and are often exempt from paying taxes that need to be paid. It is revealed by the survey.

"The abuse of Tax Haven makes it difficult for federal governments and state government agencies to support the overcoming COVID-19 pandemic. Such a huge leakage of revenue is supported by the economy and COVID-19. Incistence on the indispensable public services, and strengthen the pressure on parliamentarians to unreasonably pass on tax burden, such as those who have the lowest payment skills (including those who are most suffering from pandemic). The options also lead to a reverse financial system that worsens economic inequality and weakens COVID-19's reconstruction efforts. Not only widespread support, but in June, the business world has been supporting the US International Business Council (USCIB), the Safe Professional, The Bee Team. The main business groups, such as, have sent the Senate Guidance Department to the Senate Guidance Division for more than 10 years, as a means of fighting the business damage to the business. He has opposed the Corporate Countermeasures bill, but in June he sent a letter to the Senator.

Tax transparency

The momentum for the transparency of multinational companies is growing inside and outside the ring road.

"The currently ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has broken political and economic paradigm, which has dominated global discussions for the past 40 years, which has been caused by competition to the bottom of the global tax system. Exposed the influence of the outflow, and the ta x-hired tax threats to promote employment outsourcing are also revealed. A letter that supported a large listed company to the Congress that supports the public tax and financial information for each country (H. R. 5933 / S. 1609) has been submitted to Congress.

Each group will continue:

• "Before this crisis, in the United States and other countries, multinational companies have transfers their profits using tax law provisions, and are often exempt from paying taxes that need to be paid. It is revealed by the survey.
• "The abuse of Tax Haven makes it difficult for federal governments and state government agencies to support the overcoming COVID-19 pandemic. Such a huge leakage of revenue is supported by the economy and COVID-19. Incistence on the indispensable public services, and strengthen the pressure on parliamentarians to unreasonably pass on tax burden, such as those who have the lowest payment skills (including those who are most suffering from pandemic). The options will also worsen economic inequality and lead to a reconstruction financial system that will weaken COVID-19 reconstruction efforts. Not only the business world has been supported by the business world, and the US International Business Council (USCIB), the Safe Proof, The Be the Team, etc. The most notable for business organizations to the Senate Guidance Division for more than 10 years, as a means of fighting this bill as a means of fighting the business damage due to illegal transactions. He has opposed it, but in June he sent a letter to the Senator.
• Tax transparency
• The momentum for the transparency of multinational companies is growing inside and outside the ring road.
• "Congress is now trying to enact historical reforms to protect financial systems from abuse. [...]
• "The House of Representatives has agreed twice in the abolition of anonymous companies and updating the Money Laundering Prevention Act, and the most important Republican and Democratic Party have agreed on the same bill last month.
• "The House of Representatives has agreed twice in the abolition of anonymous companies and updating the Money Laundering Prevention Act, and the most important Republican and Democratic Party have agreed on the same bill last month.
• "The abuse of Tax Haven makes it difficult for federal governments and state government agencies to support the overcoming COVID-19 pandemic. Such a huge leakage of revenue is supported by the economy and COVID-19. Incistence on the indispensable public services, and strengthen the pressure on parliamentarians to unreasonably pass on tax burden, such as those who have the lowest payment skills (including those who are most suffering from pandemic). The options also lead to a reverse financial system that worsens economic inequality and weakens the COVID-19 reconstruction effort.
• "In order to break away from this crisis, it is necessary to reverse the outflow of wealthy wealth due to tax avoidance and outsourcing. The process sheds such abuse through the enactment of the disclosure method of ta x-hair and of f-shoeing. It starts with that.
• The support of tax transparency was expressed by many major small and mediu m-sized enterprises in the letter addressed to the Congress this month. In addition, nearly 60 investment companies with over 800 billion assets have also expressed their support, and their momentum is growing.
• Similarly, a variety of stakeholders have called for the OECD (OECD) this spring to obligate the main tax information of multinational companies. Originally agreed in 2015, the OECD is trying to review the standards on tax informatio n-specific reports.
• There is a signal indicating that the growing support for transparency has an effect. In December, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) proposed the first (optional) world standard on tax transparency. Immediately afterwards, Royal Dutch Shell became the latest company that voluntarily released tax information for each country, and Wall Street Journal called "the end of the tax secret." In February, the chairman of the U. S. Finance Accounting Standards Council (FASB) was the Board of Directors, indicating intention to support tax information for each jurisdiction, and the FASB is now a proposal to strengthen tax information. It has been reconsidered. In March, the House of Representatives Insurance Division incorporates the public provisions of the national report to companies to be rescued in the initial plan for the Economic Stimulation Measures, and more than 80 members of the Diet in May, Federal Preparatory System Board (Fed) and finance. He sent a letter to the ministry, promoted the transparency for companies that provide financial support under the CARES law, and also called for the prohibition of remedies for "inverted" tax evasion companies.
• Transparency and money laundering prevention of corporate establishment
• The FACT Union and their ally praised the transparency of the company's transparency in NDAA July 20, 2020 < SPAN> "To break away from this crisis, a global wealth of tax avoidance and outsourcing. The process must be reversed by the use of such an abuse through the enactment of the Ta x-Haven and Offshore.
• The support of tax transparency was expressed by many major small and mediu m-sized enterprises in the letter addressed to the Congress this month. In addition, nearly 60 investment companies with over 800 billion assets have also expressed their support, and their momentum is growing.
• Similarly, a variety of stakeholders have called for the OECD (OECD) this spring to obligate the main tax information of multinational companies. Originally agreed in 2015, the OECD is trying to review the standards on tax informatio n-specific reports.
• There is a signal indicating that the growing support for transparency has an effect. In December, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) proposed the first (optional) world standard on tax transparency. Immediately afterwards, Royal Dutch Shell became the latest company that voluntarily released tax information for each country, and Wall Street Journal called "the end of the tax secret." In February, the chairman of the U. S. Finance Accounting Standards Council (FASB) was the Board of Directors, indicating intention to support tax information for each jurisdiction, and the FASB is now a proposal to strengthen tax information. It has been reconsidered. In March, the House of Representatives Insurance Division incorporates the public provisions of the national report to companies to be rescued in the initial plan for the Economic Stimulation Measures, and more than 80 members of the Diet in May, Federal Preparatory System Board (Fed) and finance. He sent a letter to the ministry, promoted the transparency for companies that provide financial support under the CARES law, and also called for the prohibition of remedies for "inverted" tax evasion companies.
• Transparency and money laundering prevention of corporate establishment
• The FACT Union and their ally praised the transparency of the transparency of companies in NDAA July 20, 2020, "In order to break away from this crisis, the outflow of wealth from tax avoiding and outsourcing is reversed. It is necessary to use such abuse through the enactment of the disclosure method of ta x-hair and offshore.
• The support of tax transparency was expressed by many major small and mediu m-sized enterprises in the letter addressed to the Congress this month. In addition, nearly 60 investment companies with over 800 billion assets have also expressed their support, and their momentum is growing.
• Similarly, a variety of stakeholders have called for the OECD (OECD) this spring to obligate the main tax information of multinational companies. Originally agreed in 2015, the OECD is trying to review the standards on tax informatio n-specific reports.
• "In order to make money laundering measures modern, discussions and unrealists have been repeated in Washington for more than 10 years, but in 2020, the rules of money laundering have been improved, and crimes and corruptions have been damaged. It is a historic opportunity to protect society and companies better and ensure the soundness of the financial system.
• Transparency and money laundering prevention of corporate establishment
• The FACT Union and their ally praised the approval of the revised clause on corporate transparency in NDAA, July 20, 2020.

On July 20, 2020, the U. S. House of Representatives approved the first omnibus amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 by a vote of 336 to 71. The omnibus amendment included House Amendment No. 1 (Rules Amdt #499), which combined the previously passed Corporate Transparency Act and the COUNTER Act, making the NDAA a vehicle for passing entitlement legislation. The FACT Coalition and other allies issued statements of support after the vote.

FACT Statement

Transparency International Statement

Fraternal Order of Police Statement

Banking Policy Institute Statement

The FACT Coalition and partner organizations will be sending a letter to the U. S. House of Representatives on July 20, 2020 urging them to pass the Corporate Transparency Act in the NDAA.

Following the announcement that the Corporate Transparency Act would be packaged as House Amendment No. 1 to the National Defense Authorization Act, the FACT Coalition and its partners mobilized to send various letters to congressional leadership in support of the amendment. All letters are linked below. FACT Coalition Letter

Fraternal Order of Police Letter

Foundation for Defense of Democracies Letter

National District Attorneys Association Letter

Polaris Letter

National Coalition of Drug Enforcement Officers Letter

Foundation for Defense of Democracies Letter

Global Financial Integrity Letter

Transparency International Letter

Financial Sector Letter

National Security Experts Letter

Human Rights First Letter

Millions of Dollars in PPP Loans Go to Chinese State-Owned Enterprises Project on Government Oversight (POGO), July 23, 2020

An investigation by Project On Government Oversight (POGO) and the Anti-Corruption Data Collective found that two high-tech companies owned by Chinese state-owned private equity firms received loans totaling $2. 4 million to $6 million from the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program. Loans distributed through the program are fully forgiven and are intended to help struggling small businesses weather the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

Read the full report here.

FACT's Gascoigne speaks at Atlantic Council event: "Putin's People: How the KGB took back Russia," June 30, 2020

In Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West, investigative journalist and Financial Times Moscow correspondent Catherine Belton tells the dark story of how Vladimir Putin gained power and consolidated his rule. Belton traces how an alliance between Putin, the KGB, and organized crime forged in St. Petersburg and expanded its influence to the Kremlin, across Russia, and ultimately to Western markets and institutions. Belton's extensive research reveals how the Russian president and his allies conspired to turn a state industry into a kleptocracy backed by the Federal Security Service (FSB). This compelling, contemporary account of Putin's Russia paints a grim picture of a country in which freedom, private enterprise, and liberalism are forced to take a back seat to crony capitalism. Catherine Belton, author of Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West, will be speaking with Philip Zelikow, the White, Burkett Miller and J. Wilson Newman Professor of History at the University of Virginia, about her new book. She will be joined by White, Burkett Miller and J. Wilson Newman Professor of History at the University of Virginia, Clark Gascoigne, interim executive director of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition, Casey Michel, a New York-based writer and journalist covering international corruption and money laundering and author of the forthcoming book American Kleptocracy, and moderator Dr. Anders Ausland, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, to discuss her new book.

Watch the event here.

FACT, Chamber of Commerce, and Others Send Letter to Congress in Support of Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 June 30, 2020

Following Chairman Crapo and Commissioner Brown reaching an agreement on legislative text to eliminate the abuse of anonymous companies and introducing that agreement (known as the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020) as an amendment to the Senate NDAA, the FACT Coalition, along with partners and allies, sent a letter of support to urge Senate leadership to include the AML Act as an amendment to the NDAA. In addition, outside organizations and expert groups have sent their own letters in support of the AML Act. All current letters are listed and linked below.

CEO B-Team Letter

Banks & Credit Unions (11 Trade Associations) Letter

Business (large) letter (USCIB, Team B, Safeproof, NFTC)

Union letter for honesty

FACT Union letter

Police Friendship Association's letter

Global Financial Integrity Book

John Penrose, Prime Minister's ant i-correspondence champio n-Supporting the creation of beneficiary ownership registration book

Main Street Alliance Book

The letter of the National Lawyer Association (NAAUA)

Foundation for Defense of Democracies Letter

US Federal Insurance Credit Association (NAFCU)

National Local Bar Association (NDAA) letter

National Security Book

INGO letter (Oxfam, Jubili, ONE, Action Aid, Bred for the World)

Jubili USA Book

Foundation for Defense of Democracies Letter

Issues in the News

US PIRG Book

Polaris Anti Human Trafficking Letter

Sheldon White House Senator

An investigation by Project On Government Oversight (POGO) and the Anti-Corruption Data Collective found that two high-tech companies owned by Chinese state-owned private equity firms received loans totaling $2. 4 million to $6 million from the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program. Loans distributed through the program are fully forgiven and are intended to help struggling small businesses weather the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

Transparency International letter

American Chamber of Commerce and Industr y-First Support (Supporting Illicit Cash)

US Chamber of Commerce and Industry Boo k-Supporting the 2020 Money Laundering Prevention Law as a correction for NDAA

Foundation for Defense of Democracies Letter

Under the partnership with Global Witness, the FACT Union launched nine advertisements in nine states, calling on major Senator to suppress trafficking by enacting the Irishit cash method. Human traders often manipulate financial systems and utilize anonymous paper companies to benefit from exploitation of other human beings. The Irishit Cash Law obliges companies to disclose the owner of beneficiary rights, and the law enforcement agency provides tools to identify criminals and stop them.

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COVID-19 Comments to the House of Representatives Financial Service Committee on cyber crimes and fraud FACT unions (June 16, 2020)

Foundation for Defense of Democracies Letter

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Who is opening the door for Clapt Clut? Transparency International, June 11, 2020

A new survey led by OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project) has revealed a similar story. Journalists have revealed the real estate and business empire of Anal Muffumdov and Narugiz Muffumdova, the children of Eldal Mahmdov, the Minister of State of Azerbaijan, from 2003 to 2015. Ten years before becoming a minister, Eldal Mahmdov led the Ministry of Home Affairs Economic Crime Section.

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Global Financial Integrity, JUNE 3, 2020

Law executive organizations, policy proprieters, and media tend to be concerned about the immediate nature of criminal acts. In the evening news, a 6 0-second video clip talks about sexual trading, and the details of families torn by drugs and gang violence are spoken, and citizens and politicians are alert. The law enforcement reacts to this and crack down on it, but criminal organizations are organized again and proceed. It is a vicious cycle.

Elite financial crimes and abusive tax evasion also contribute to the deterioration of social relations. The distrust of financial elites has reached the peak worldwide, combined with multiple hig h-level corruption scandals and the absence of explanatory responsibility for it. Corruption is a major promoter. Growing anger and organizational inequality are a common theme for both developed and developing countries.

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tax

Apple's EU ruling emphasizes the need for law revision to compete with tax avoidance FACT Union, July 15, 2020

On Wednesday, the European Union's court overturned the 2016 ruling that Apple had been avoiding illegal tax avoidance from Ireland. The second highest court on Wednesday in the EU has disable the decision that Apple had demanded Ireland to pay 13 billion euros back money.

Foundation for Defense of Democracies Letter

On July 15, 2020, the European Court of the European Court against Apple Company Tax Justice Network

Today's decision is to support the fact that the rules for the European Union (EU) have not played the role of preventing the EU member of the EU from being operated as a tax avoidance. 。 A stronger tax justice reform is required rather than a wide range of national assistance rules. If you do not work directly on the negative effects of tax abuse, neither the EU nor any other country will be able to increase the necessary revenue for investing in medical services and pandemic.

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Foundation for Defense of Democracies Letter

"Despite today's ruling, there is no objection to the fact that Apple has received a significant tax reduction by the tax officer issued by Irish tax authorities.

"Such a case highlights the extreme actual situation of corporate tax avoidance in the EU, causing hundreds of billions of euros to governments each year. These funds are after the COVID-19 pandemic. The European Commission can be used to provide more important services such as medical care and childcare. It is time to introduce measures. "

Foundation for Defense of Democracies Letter

Fact and Oxfam, US Trade Representative Department (USTR) comments on discussions on the start of the digital service tax on Fact Federation and Oxfam America, July 15, 2020

The FACT Union and the Ox Fam have published a joint comment on digital service tax surveys by the United States Trade Representative, and worked on the representative department so that the countries and regions that introduce digital service taxes are not taken.

Click here for full comments.

The new bill is Fact Coalition, JUNE 24, 2020, which prevents the rescue of "reversal" companies with COVID support

Global Financial Integrity Letter

Click here for full text of the FACT Union.

Oxfam, the role of EU fighting inequality, June 5, 2020

A new study published today by Oxfam says that 500 million people could be pushed into poverty if governments do not take urgent action against COVID-19 now. In Europe and Central Asia alone, the number of people living in poverty could increase by 6. 2 million to 13. 1 million. But governments cannot hope to protect the most vulnerable in the global community without fair tax policies that hold all actors accountable for paying their fair share. This blog includes recommendations for actions the EU and the European Central Bank should take to ensure that no one is left behind in the coronavirus recovery.

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Five vaccines selected by the White House were publicly funded Public Citizen, June 4, 2020

WASHINGTON, D. C. - The Trump administration's COVID-19 candidate vaccine candidates all received significant public funding from federal agencies and foreign governments, a Public Citizen report has found.

Public Citizen, Oxfam and hundreds of other organisations have called for transparency, pricing terms and vaccine technology transfer (global sharing of vaccine knowledge, public licensing of patents and other proprietary rights) to ensure that a safe and effective vaccine is produced by qualified manufacturers around the world and available to all.

Foundation for Defense of Democracies Letter

Comments to the High-Level UN FACTI Panel FACT Coalition, May 24, 2020

The FACT Coalition submitted comments to the UN High-Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity for the Agenda 2030 (FACTI Panel).

Read the full comment here.

Each group will continue:

According to an Oxfam report, a large proportion of the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) public sector funds are deposited directly in tax havens. While such moves are not unusual when it comes to foreign investment, the decision undermines the host country's ability to collect necessary corporate taxes from companies that evade paying them. It also strongly contradicts the World Bank's mission under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which call on governments to support access to critical social services, an effort that cannot be realized without the ability to mobilize domestic resources through fair tax policies.

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Transparency in Incorporation and Anti-Money Laundering

Global Financial Integrity Book

The Federal Bureau of Investigation believes that companies in the nearly $10 trillion private equity investment fund industry are being used on a large scale to launder money.

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Kansas Attorney General Urges U. S. Senate to Pass Money Laundering Reform Bill The Morning Sun, July 3, 2020

By: Jonathan Reilly