Attn. Fact-checkers, journalists, researchers: Join me and my @glaad.bsky.social colleague @leannagarfield.bsky.social for this presentation on the 2026 Social Media Safety Index — including our platform recommendations for mitigating anti-LGBTQ and anti-trans disinfo. Plus @isdglobal.bsky.social!

If sexual abuse was really considered a terrible thing, the world's richest and most powerful people wouldn't be abusers. The most valued technology wouldn't produce sexual abuse on demand. And allegations of abuse wouldn't be framed as positive depictions of masculinity. Our culture rewards abuse.

chega no ouvidinho da gata e sussurra "essa caos interior que vc disfarça todos os dias é normal"

“The future being built is one in which the camera is no longer just a camera, the phone is no longer just a phone, and glasses are no longer just glasses. They are portals into identity systems. They make the face a query and turn public presence into searchable data.” 💀

I think every politician who proposes to ban anything on the internet for teens should be required to propose, as an alternate, a free and accessible and all weather space for teens to hang out in their own hometown

And sometimes parents are exactly the wrong people to ask. Some parents are the people kids need to escape from.

This, by @smgrimes.bsky.social, is brilliant & so needed: a refutal of Jonathan Haidt's & Jean Twenge's moral panic by academics with evidence. It is brief, clear, accessible, and devastating. I, too, quoted those scholars in The Web We Weave. kidsplaytech.com/wp-content/u...

I saw Marjane Satrapi speak about her work at Smith College 19 years ago, and she said something I have thought about and taught ever since when I teach comics. “I draw what I can’t write and I write what I can’t draw.“

Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

its insane how this man basically funded the entire american transphobia movement bc he hates his trans daughter

unnoticed by whom, npr

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It does seem that the promise of AI in classrooms is always "highly adaptable and customized learning" and yet, everything being rolled out is aimed at a highly generic child and universalized ideas of how that vaguely defined child wants to learn

VPNs não colocam pessoas em perigo–na verdade, elas ajudam a proteger as pessoas–mas o art. 226-A do PL brasileiro 3066/2025 trata essa ferramenta de segurança padrão como se fosse uma arma. www.poder360.com.br/opiniao/pro...

AGORA: A diretora associada do InternetLab, Mariana Valente, fala em audiência pública na Câmara dos Deputados. A sessão debate o tema "Misoginia em rede: disseminação do ódio contra mulheres". Assista à sessão ao vivo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzUr...

Lots of tech companies are releasing surveillance specs & I’m reminded of the internal Meta memo to put facial rec in their glasses during a “dynamic political environment” because people will be too focused on other issues to resist. Companies think now is the right time to foist these on us all.

@omct.social has launched a consultation on GenZ and youth-led movements, open until June 13 in English, French and Spanish. If you work with young activists, this is another opportunity to make that experience count. And our work is aligned!

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

ICYMI: CDT’s Aliya Bhatia wrote in The Guardian about the growing wave of age verification laws that could force people to upload government IDs just to access everyday online platforms. The piece explores what’s at stake as govts push new restrictions.

Article 226-A of Brazil’s Bill 3066/2025 distorts the logic of the penal system. Treating VPNs like firearms doesn’t protect children, but rather signals that legitimate privacy and security tools are suspicious by definition. Policymakers should reject this bad idea.

The US isn't a country it's just 16 CEO's in a trenchcoat

Today, I was scheduled to be a presenter on a panel at Rightscon titled "Is Freedom of Expression Dead? Rethinking free speech in times of authoritarianism." Really sucks that it was cancelled by pressure from an authoritarian government.

Messages could include "medical circumstances, accessibility accommodations, disputes, sexual assault allegations," and more.

This is part of why I keep saying we live in a post-information society. Big tech data surveillance, data center build outs, and “AI science” exist within the same political and social project that is actively hiding or destroying actual public data, scientific progress, education, libraries, etc

In the era of gigantic data centers and tech companies knowing everything about us, there is no excuse for data that matters for human development policy to be getting worse. This is by design. Racism and misogyny will not leave traces on public data...

In Silicon Valley, AI is a race—who wins, who captures value, who deploys fastest. In Brazil, the question isn't who wins but how the race itself is structured. With elections looming and institutions strained, AI safety starts with everyday harms, not existential ones, writes Adriana Abdenur.

We don't have to imagine an internet without intermediary liability protections like Section 230: in India, a YouTuber's review of a new Motorola phone has resulted in not only a takedown of the video but a civil defamation case against platforms hosting the review: restofworld.org/2026/motorol...

Kids should be learning that AI output isn’t trustworthy, where it really comes from, and how it’s disrupting our ability to tell what’s real. They shouldn’t be learning that AI will make them more efficient or do their work for them because it can’t. That would be propaganda, not education

News shouldn’t disappear. 🕳️ Some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine, putting the public record at risk. Journalists are speaking out. Add your name. Stand for preserving the news. ✍️ www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders

That any gov't cares enough abt digital rights orgs to make a stink shows just how important surveillance and censorship are to preserving + expanding their power. But also shows the calls for privacy, security, freedom of expression are increasing...which means digital rights orgs are succeeding.

BREAKING: The Chinese government pressured Zambia to screen + exclude Taiwanese speakers attending @rightscon.org, leading to the largest international convention on digital rights being canceled a week before it takes place, the host org @accessnow.org tells WIRED. By @telliotter.bsky.social + me

Extremely disheartening to watch the beautiful and difficult-to-build #RightsCon be unilaterally canceled last minute this week. Big kudos to folks at @accessnow.org for speaking openly about the transnational repression behind it. Hoping this energizes the fight for digital rights everywhere.

USAID 2024 budget: $21.4 billion.

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

Breaking: Brazil bans betting companies like kalshi and polymarket from operating in the country decision effective may 4th forbids betting on politics, sports and entertainment

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As a family violence researcher, this approach to protecting kids from the games of social media makes me very nervous. “Families” are often sites of violence that cause harm, too.

🧵 I want to crack down on Big Tech as much as anyone, prob more than most. But the draconian and unworkable kids' online safety bill that the MA House passed earlier this month is not the way to do it. From @evangreer.bsky.social & me in today's @bostonglobe.com : www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/22/o...

I posted my Senate testimony about Section 230 and responses to follow-up Questions for the Record on SSRN, and wrote this blog post excerpting the main thrust of the testimony. It describes the positive work Section 230 is doing today, and what we know about *actual outcomes* under alternate laws.

From Aracelis Girmay's book, Kingdom Animalia: bookshop.org/a/862/9781934414620 #poem #booksky #writing

Everything is fucking dumb all the time now

Uber is an awful lot of being in cars you can't afford driven by people who deserve benefits and a union and a living wage that they don't receive.

When companies underinvest in T&S in non-EN langs, they're only exacerbating existing vectors of risk posed to the communities speaking those languages. This is laid bare in @untoldmag.org on the coupling of online and offline risks to LGBTQ+ communities in Egypt untoldmag.org/egypt-lgbtq-...

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holy shit he actually conceded folks, they tell you they’re invincible they tell you they’re inevitable they tell you that you should give up and stop fighting and absolutely none of that is true

New from 404 Media: the FBI was able to extract incoming Signal messages from a phone even though the app was deleted. Why? Because parts of messages were stored in the iPhone's internal notification database. Shows how secure chat data can come from unexpected places www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

A fundamental friction exists between secure messaging apps and the OSes upon which they sit. Turn off push notifications for Signal or at least restrict their content.

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...