Not just lobbying! our new paper maps 27 mechanisms of regulatory capture used by Big AI + 11 narrative framings that rationalise capture. “Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity” will be presented at #FAccT2026 next month arxiv.org/abs/2605.068... 1/

"Residents in Fayetteville, Georgia, noticed low water pressure last year. The utility discovered two unaccounted-for water connections at one of the nation’s largest data center campuses."

“Many discussions still approach AI primarily as a digital technology, but in many of these countries, AI is becoming visible through the infrastructures that sustain it” @carineroos.bsky.social Featuring @joan1k.bsky.social @datalabelers.bsky.social & many more inspiring people around the world!

Brazil will soon find out if its new law aimed protecting children online will stick. A copy of a draft enforcement decree obtained by Tech Policy Press offers a fuller picture of how it may be implemented, fellow Tatiana Dias reports.

The expanding war in Iran brought to the fore questions about the role of technology in armed conflict, including the controversial use of new artificial intelligence technologies. Tech Policy Press invited perspectives from experts on what they are watching for as the situation unfolds.

📢 Introducing: Carine Roos, a researcher working at the intersection of AI, democracy, & human rights. With experience across academia, civil society, & international organisations, she has contributed to global debates on digital rights, digital sovereignty, & ethical AI. (1/2)

Very excited to share the newest contribution to the Symposium on #AI and #democracy on #countergovernance by the brilliant @carineroos.bsky.social 📢👇

How can #BigTech be resisted in the age of AI, so as to reclaim democratic imagination and better protect #collectiverights? In this contribution of the Symposium on #AI & #Democracy, @carineroos.bsky.social Read it here: www.law.kuleuven.be/ai-summer-sc...

One Year Trump. Let the past year serve as a reminder of what a malicious, vindictive, greedy leader can do to a country in one year. And let it be a reminder that a strong opposition, strong institutions, and independent and free media are necessary guardrails in a strong democracy.

Trump pulls out of long list of international organizations, conventions, treaties.... including (of particular note to digital rights folks) the Freedom Online Coalition. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has generated a flood of sexualized images of women and minors posted to the social media platform X. Regulators around the world are responding by opening inquiries, demanding takedowns, and threatening legal action. Tech Policy Press is tracking such responses.

New year, new (job) opportunities: Full professorship in Digital Society and Democracy. What: excellent conditions, start-up and transition packages, interdisciplinary and supportive environment, wonderful colleagues. [1/2] fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Today Dec 15 at 3.30pm Brazil (6.30 pm UK/7.30pm CET) I will be speaking about #digital #sovereignty at Brazil's Ministry of Management and Innovation organized by ENAP Join online: youtube.com/live/ABLeek8... This talk is part of @iipp-ucl.bsky.social 's applied learning program

While some elements of AI are genuinely new, the harms it enables are evolutions of those we have seen before, writes Sarah Barrington. It is time to recognize the myth of the “unprecedented” and hold tech accountable, she says.

Most of the discussion around America's AI strategy abroad has focused on the AI Action Plan - but perhaps more important was the Executive Order on exporting the AI stack. 🧵

This is one of the things I miss most about London. Radiohead will be performing there from November 21–25. And to think they once revolutionized the industry by releasing In Rainbows online in 2007, letting people download it and choose their own price. youtu.be/0vK0yCbVdQg?...

«Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore. It’s building empires.» The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social www.authoritarian-stack.info

What can we learn from @awscloud.bsky.social and @microsoft.com recent cloud blackouts? The extent of dependency is so deep & widespread that we must develop #digital #sovereignty This is what @paologerbaudo.bsky.social & I explain for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...

"This week Elon Musk proudly launched his latest venture — not electric cars, not space exploration, not satellites, not tunnels, not social media, not brain implants, not the rolling back of the administrative state... but something altogether more fundamental: a new version of the truth."

Today is the official UK publication day for Silicon Empires! I'm excited to have it out and hear what people think. There's an enormous amount happening every day in AI, and it's difficult to gain a stable perspective. I wrote the book to try and get some secure hold on that constant flux. 🧵

Lula says ‘Tyrania do Veto’ prevents UN from avoiding ‘atrocities’ and again says that Gaza suffers ‘genocide’ President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) said on Monday (22) that the "tyranny of the veto" prevents the United Nations Security Council (UN) from preventing "atrocities". The president…

Always a pleasure to come back to LSE, even for a short visit

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The U.S. government is using tariffs and the Magnitsky Act to seek impunity for former President Jair Bolsonaro, who orchestrated a failed coup attempt on Jan. 8, 2023, in an effort to subvert the popular will,” writes President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil.

Raining day in London (as always). It couldn't feel more nostalgic

"A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

🫳 A MÃO INVISÍVEL DAS BIG TECHS | Ao longo de nove meses, 17 organizações de jornalismo, lideradas pela Pública e pelo CLIP, fizeram reportagens sobre as estratégias de influência das Big Techs em 13 países. A primeira parte desta série acaba de ser lançada. Siga o fio!

Western leaders have appeased Donald Trump since he returned to power, only to be hit with new demands after every concession. On Tuesday, Trump declared economic war on countries that regulate its tech companies. It’s time for the world to break from the US and aggressively target Silicon Valley.

Brazil offers a lesson in democracy to an America that is becoming more corrupt, protectionist and authoritarian econ.st/4peBqLR

One of the sharpest critiques I’ve read of the “techno-feudalism” hype is this essay by @evgenymorozov.bsky.social in Le Monde diplomatique. Well worth the read: mondediplo.com/2025/08/02te...

Loved this interview with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social on @techwontsave.us. A sharp and timely analysis of digital sovereignty and how countries can resist Big Tech dependence. Must-listen! techwontsave.us/episode/290_...

Powerful analysis by @beccalew.bsky.social in @theguardian.com what looks like a recent backlash against diversity on digital platforms is in fact rooted in the 1990s, when masculinity, entrepreneurship & deregulation fused into a high-tech civilizational project www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Great piece on The Weaponized World Economy by @himself.bsky.social and @abenewman.bsky.social. Important contribution to the debate on weaponized interdependence, but still missing the Global South’s perspective. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

"Do Trump and his advisors really think they can use tariffs to bully a nation of + 200 million people into dropping its efforts to defend democracy, when it sells 88 % of its exports to countries other than the United States?" Love it @pkrugman.bsky.social paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumpbrazi...

Sharing my two cents on Trump’s Executive Order “Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government”: this is not merely a conservative project: it is fundamentally anti-democratic. www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-s...

Bolsonaro ordered to wear ankle tag over fears he may abscond as coup trial nears end

On July 11, OpenAI announced it would sign the EU Code of Practice for AI. At first glance, it sounds like a responsible move. But read between the lines: it’s about turning regulation into a growth strategy and presenting AI as both inevitable and already settled. www.linkedin.com/posts/carine...

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Professor Virgílio Almeida discussing platforms as institutions, using Brazil as a case study at the Digital Humanism Conference @dighum.wien, including the case where Elon Musk’s X challenged Brazil’s Supreme Court authority. #dighum2025

Tech billionaires not only shape public debate, but also define the very boundaries of who can occupy that space with legitimacy and safety, writes Carine Roos. www.techpolicy.press/gendered-dis...

My first contribution to @techpolicypress.bsky.social is out! Platforms profit from silencing women, especially those in power. I write about gendered disinformation as infrastructure: www.techpolicy.press/gendered-dis... #GenderedDisformation #Democracy #HumanRights #TechPolicy #AIEthics

Quotes from the screening of Eno: An Ever-Changing Portrait of a Musical Visionary: 1. Art is how we synchronize our feelings 2. Honor your mistakes, they often carry hidden intentions 3. We live in complex systems, but treat them as linear 4. Surrender is an active verb Thanks @dighum.wien 💖

How to fix social media? While we still work hard to understand the exact problems we are facing, many people are also already working on solutions. I wanted to highlight some directions that I was lucky enough to be involved in (thread):

Very good thread. Nothing is inevitable but anything can happen in the absence of resistance.

For @thebulwark.bsky.social, I wrote about why I decided to testify before Congress on the censorship lie. This hearing had everything: -sexism -references to Goebbels -posthumous rehabilitation of McCarthy In other words, another day in today’s GOP 🫠 www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...

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Breaking News: Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s ex-president, will be tried on charges of attempting a coup in 2022, the country’s top court ruled.

O avanço da censura e das políticas excludentes nos EUA não é isolado, faz parte de uma estratégia global. No @nexojornal.bsky.social, analiso como isso amplia as desigualdades e afeta a democracia no Brasil. www.nexojornal.com.br/redes-sociai...

This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets. www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

Mathias Risse’s piece does a great job explaining how gaslighting is being used to push funding cuts and silence dissent on U.S. campuses: www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...