I spoke to OkayAfrica about the landmark Kenya lawsuit in which a judge recently rule the court has jurisdiction to hear a case against #Meta for its contribution to violence in #Ethiopia about the avenues this opens up for community accountability Read more here: www.okayafrica.com/kenya-ethiop...

A real pleasure to speak to Evelyn for the IRLI podcast on why we need to rein in Big Tech. We discussed Meta's recent changes to fact-checking & policy & much more. Listen here: www.irishruleoflaw.ie/_why_we_need...

In a highly significant victory, yesterday Kenya's High Court ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear & consider the merits of case in which #Meta is accused of promoting content that led to ethnic violence & killings in #Ethiopia. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Today @amnesty.org & the DSA Civil Society Coordination Group published its analysis of the Risk Assessments Reports under the Digital Services Act (#DSA). It focuses on the reports of Google, Meta, TikTok and X. cdt.org/wp-content/u...

I will be in #Taipei next week for #RightsCon 2025 and absolutely thrilled to be participating in a roundtable arranged by AI Taiwan on "Taiwan's next step: how to end online discrimination & hate speech without compromising civic space?"

With over 230 organisations, we are demanding our government immediately halt all arms transfers to Israel, including F-35 fighter jets which the UK produces 15% of.

Recent policy developments by Meta increase the risk of contributing to mass violence & gross human rights abuses - just like it did in Myanmar in 2017. A timely op-ed by @patdebrun.bsky.social & Rohingya survivor Maung Sawyeddollah 👇 www.techpolicy.press/metas-new-co...

A Rohingya survivor, Maung Sawyeddollah, has filed a whistleblower complaint with the SEC, asking the agency to investigate Meta for possibly violating securities law by not disclosing its contributions to the 2017 atrocities against the #Rohingya in Myanmar. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

US President Donald Trump has made his government's plans clear - prioritising the profits of big corporations over the needs of people & our planet. These policies are a manifestation of a far-right political agenda of racism & bigotry, and we must stand against it.

Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its #algorithms - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... yes: johnny ryan is right, and knows what he is talking about...

“You could say the dominoes are falling, and they’re falling on, of course, the poorest people in the world”. Our Executive Director, Asad Rehman, spoke to Middle East Eye about how global heating breaching the 1.5°C target is magnifying global inequalities. www.middleeasteye.net/news/algeria...

And another view on this from the @financialtimes.com "If Meta and X were confident in heading off the regulatory impositions of the EU, Brazil and elsewhere, they would not need to swing behind Trump and the new administration." www.ft.com/content/917c...

“The fact that Zuckerberg openly said that he is enlisting Trump’s help to pressure global regulators to not enforce their own laws in their own countries should concern anyone who cares about global democracy.” www.thebulwark.com/p/zuckerberg...

oversimplification of human cognition while overinflating the capacity of computers is not the clever and logical argument you think it is. it only serves as a pr for big tech and their shareholders

Saying "AI is just a tool" does not mean you get to absolve yourself of thinking critically about the labor implications, or how LLMs trained on stolen work, or the water and power needs of the sector.

#ChatGPT search tool vulnerable to manipulation and deception, tests show - www.theguardian.com/technology/2... " testing reveals AI-powered search tools can return false or malicious results if webpages contain hidden text" hardly news... #genai

The thing I keep thinking about with this Blake Lively situation is how well-resourced this woman is. I want people to think about the bot army and the structured takedown, and how eager people were to participate, and how this is doubtlessly done to activists and thinkers without consequence.

One of the degrading inanities of 45/47 is that he sees everything as a real estate deal or a grift. Except for stuff he sees as golf course management, for ex: to prevent forest fires you just need to rake the forest floor. Greenland is not for sale.

🚨We're hiring for a short term consultancy!🚨 Amnesty Tech are looking for a consultant to work on Competition Law and Human Rights Policy Research - with a focus on Big Tech. More details here: careers.amnesty.org/jobs/vacancy...

If there's one thing the NYPD is good at, it's...art history? Not comparing Luigi Mangione to Jesus Christ, but I am comparing composition to composition.

Following @amnesty.org 's report on genocide in #Gaza, Human Rights Watch now makes the same finding. The consensus amongst human rights organisations is growing. This is genocide. And no one can say they did not know. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

‘Everything is gone’: how Israeli forces destroyed Jabaliya refugee camp - www.theguardian.com/global-devel... “One day when my stepmother was returning to the school, she was killed by snipers. A few days later, my father was also killed by a sniper.” #gaza #israel

Quite "humble" amounts so far, but what's stopping Musk from using Twitter's algorithm - as he's done for himself - to promote and amplify, thereby increasing creator payouts to Reform MPs and other politicians he supports? Or even changing creator payments for those he prefers?

Al Mezan, an organisation on the ground in #Gaza are collecting testimonies from the people who live there. Please read & consider supporting Al Mezan, who are really doing amazing work in the most difficult circumstances imaginable. mezan.org/public/en/po...

i hadn't noticed how bad it's gotten on X, but there's been a few days this week where my tiktok feed has been full of ed vids, like one after the other seemingly out of nowhere!!!! (maybe coming from cooking/beauty vids i engaged with? idk!) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Yesterday, Israel killed Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmad Baker Al-Louh, in an airstrike targeting a civil defence post in Nuseirat camp. More than 196 journalists have been killed in Gaza since October 2023.

🚨 BREAKING: Amnesty’s latest report on digital surveillance in Serbia: new *NoviSpy* spyware discovered; zero days identified and patched; and first evidence showing use of Cellebrite UFED forensic products to unlock phones to then infect with spyware. 🧵 securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2024/...

📣 New Amnesty report released today: “A Digital Prison” documents how mobile forensic products made by Israeli company Cellebrite are being used to extract data from mobile devices belonging to journalists and activists in Serbia. securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2024/...

The Tech Coup in the @nytimes.com Book Review alongside @danamattioli.bsky.social @kateconger.com @rmac.bsky.social ✨❤️↘️ www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/b...

If anyone was still on the fence on the academic boycott of Israel, this article outlines how who should control Gaza's oil reserves and how to navigate international law...during a GENOCIDE. Shame on LJIL for publishing this. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Amnesty: #Sudan - SAF air strike on crowded market in North Darfur a flagrant war crime www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Advance copies now in the house! 🤓 a reminder that this is now available for pre-order, and nifty 30% off still stands!

Gaza is still starving. www.aljazeera.com/features/lon...

‘Cambridge Analytica was always the privatization of the military’s psychological warfare strategies...military propaganda let loose in the world of domestic politics’ (Hernandez, 2023, p. 15). Wild to watch the CEO, knowing what we know, back in 2016. #microtargeting www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Dd...

Absolutely harrowing article on forced disappearances taking place in #Gaza - including of a 4 year old girl. apnews.com/article/isra...

Switzerland and Norway both wrote letters of dissent that have been read out at Congress. Norway said bidding process did not meet FIFA’s governance reforms. Also called on FIFA to implement report on remedy for workers in Qatar.

European countries & others that are rushing to push for the return of Syrian refugees & suspending asylum applications — it’s been just days since Assad’s fall. Yes, people may want to go back to reunite with family & check on property.. but rushing return is unrealistic & cruel to say the least.

Saydnaya today, Sde Teiman tomorrow.

"The most important step is justice, and not retribution" www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Watch all the prison release videos from Syria. Let Syrians feed you a taste of freedom. Imagine your own society opening its doors and borders. Imagine being free one day yourself, truly free. That’s what this moment invites.

See Amnesty’s landmark report — Human slaughterhouse: Mass hangings and extermination at Saydnaya Prison, Syria www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

No way 😂😂😂😂😂😂 We’ve heard of statues being destroyed or smashed, but sitting on them and tying them to a car? That’s the first time I’ve heard of it.

My advice to journos covering Syria: this is a complex story to tell with a criminal regime, bad actors, foreign influence & uncertainty of what's to come. Tell complex stories, but center your stories in the agency of Syrians. It's their story, their country, their freedom.

Amnesty urges the international community to center Syrian voices in the transition. Victims deserve truth, justice and reparations. #Syria www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Look at the joy on the faces of these Syrians as they finally get to go home. The refugee crisis sparked by the war saw millions of Syrians stranded in Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey for ober a decade. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

A moment that will be captured in the history books. Saydnaya personifies the terror of the Syrian regime. Known as the "human slaughterhouse," it was site to the secret executions of 13,000 people in a single 5 year period & continued to hold thousands of unjustly detained.

136,000 prisoners. Let it sink.

John Simpson decides that he successfully peered into Asad's soul and saw that it was the other baddies that told him to use chemical weapons and torture his political enemies and imprison children. Simpson at this crucial moment tries to make it about himself and his celebrity access. Moron.

You don’t have to reply to every post about Syria with doomerism. Syrians and those of us who have been activists on their behalf for many years are well aware of the uncertainty of the future. People are on it, trust me. Let people celebrate the end of Assad’s reign of terror for a day or two.

The head of FIFA’s human rights sub-committee says he “would have liked to have seen compensation” for workers in Qatar and that there is “an element of great disappointment” that FIFA ignored the main conclusion of his committee’s report. www.gbc.gi/news/fifa-re...