Now Monk wonders whether such efforts will continue in the future. While he doesn’t believe that his Monk Skin Tone Scale is threatened because it’s already baked into dozens of products at Google and elsewhere — including camera phones, video games, AI image generators — he and other researchers worry that the new mood is chilling future initiatives and funding to make technology work better for everyone.
For example, the move to revoke tax-exempt status could choke off funding for groups that urge greater action to promote clean air, water and land, work to help communities most affected by industrial pollution and advocate for projects and policies to combat climate change — among other issues.“It threatens the rights, health, and future of every community,” Roos said in a statement.
Last month, Trump said he couldand the ethics watchdog organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.Though past presidents have tried to influence and direct the IRS, presidents
to conduct tax investigations under a law passed by Congress in 1998. The IRS can examine an organization’s tax-exempt status and can rescind it if it’s not operating for charitable purposes as required. Still, the IRS’ independence under Trump is in question.Speaking generally about the Trump administration’s stance toward nonprofits before the bill was unveiled, Thomas Kelley, a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, told The Associated Press it would devastate charitable groups if donations were no longer deductible. He also said most private grant-making foundations have internal policies that they give only to 501(c)(3) organizations.
St. John reported from Detroit. Associated Press writer Thalia Beaty contributed reporting.
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— on child online safety. Still, the last federal law aimed at protecting children online was enacted in 1998, six years before Facebook’s founding.issued a warning saying there is not enough evidence to show that social media is safe for kids and urged policymakers to address the harms of social media the same way they regulate things like car seats, baby formula, medication and other products children use. Parents, he stressed, can’t do it all, although some — like Othman’s — try.
Othman at first wanted a phone “with everything on it, no restrictions.”“But like now, after the years passed, I really do understand and appreciate what they did,” he said.