Dear Mr. Zuckerberg and Mr. Pichai,
In the past few years, you have pioneered important transparency tools to help your platform users understand, learn about and contextualise the political advertising they see. We agree that advertiser verification processes and ad repositories are key safeguards against online manipulation and misinformation. However, we are saddened to observe that these benefits have not been equally distributed among your global user base.
Each platform operates fluctuating and often widely differing transparency standards for different countries. While some users benefit from seeing political advertising in an ad repository, others do not. Where some users are offered detailed information about a political ad, others are not. There are no legitimate or otherwise publicly disclosed reasons justifying this difference in treatment.
Jan. 29, 2021:
Two years ago today, the Trump administration subjected the first migrant to a callous and unlawful policy that risks asylum seekers lives by forcing them to wait in
Mexico for their
U.S. immigration court hearings, stranded in border towns under life-threatening conditions.
Stuck there, families sleep in tents that do little to protect them from the elements or crime. Others crowd together in grimy streets without blankets or pillows amidst this humanitarian crisis. Parents clutch their children tightly out of fear they could be kidnapped.
The Trump administration officially implemented the Migrant Protection Protocols, better known as the Remain in
Court Lets US Border Agents Resume Removing Unaccompanied Minors Without Court Hearings
A federal appeals court on Friday blocked a ruling that prevented U.S. border agents from removing illegal immigrants under the age of 18 who travel without an adult to the country.
A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit stayed a lower court ruling as the case is adjudicated. The panel consisted of Judges Gregory Katsas, Neomi Rao, and Justin Walker, all Trump nominees.
The stay was requested by the Trump administration last year after District Judge Emmet Sullivan, a Clinton appointee, said officials were “not acting within the bounds set by Congress” when they suspended the entry of people from Canada and Mexico, regardless of their country of origin, into the United States.
Colin KalmbacherJan 26th, 2021, 7:53 pm
The Department of Justice formally relegated the Trump-era “zero tolerance” policy for undocumented immigrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border to the dustbin of history on Tuesday, a move that sparked widespread praise from immigration advocates who cautioned it is just a first step in dismantling the separate and distinct family separation policy they reviled.
“As federal prosecutors, we are charged with seeking justice,” Acting Attorney General
Monty Wilkinson wrote in a memo rescinding the directive. “The exercise of this responsibility results in highly consequential determinations and requires considerable judgment.”
“I am rescinding effective immediately the policy directive entitled