With years of assorted scandals between the companies mentioned (some, to be fair, much worse than others), there will hopefully be a wealth of information in the responses. how their practices affect children and teens.how they measure, promote, and research user engagement and.
Whether they apply algorithms or data analytics to personal information
how they determine which ads and other content are shown to consumers. how social media and video streaming services collect, use, track, estimate, or derive personal and demographic information. While the investigation may be broad, there are several specific topics the FTC says its pursuing: None of the other companies we contacted immediately responded. We make no money from advertising, selling user data to advertisers, or sharing users' personal information with others." "Importantly, there are no ads on Discord. "Discord takes user privacy very seriously and we look forward to working with the FTC to answer their questions about our privacy practices," a Discord spokesperson noted over email. "We're working, as we always do, to ensure the FTC has the information it needs to understand how Twitter operates its services," replied a Twitter spokesperson. We reached out to Facebook (which owns WhatsApp), Twitter, Amazon, Snap, Google (which owns YouTube), TikTok, and Discord for comment. The FTC voted 4 to 1 to issue the orders, with Donald Trump-nominated Commissioner Noah Joshua Phillips the sole opposition vote. "It is alarming that we still know so little about companies that know so much about us." "Despite their central role in our daily lives, the decisions that prominent online platforms make regarding consumers and consumer data remain shrouded in secrecy," said FTC commissioners Rohit Chopra, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, and Christine S. 
Notably, this is separate from the FTC lawsuit alleging Facebook illegally maintains a monopoly, and is not tied to a specific law enforcement action - a fact that makes the probe all the more interesting. Some of the largest social media companies in the world were officially placed under the spotlight Monday, as the FTC announced a "wide-ranging" study into how the companies use personal information and drive user engagement, and how children might be swept up in the process. The Federal Trade Commission has some questions, and Amazon, TikTok, Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Snapchat, Twitter, WhatsApp, and YouTube better have answers.
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