NEW: Two weeks ago gov't IT experts warned us that the worst case scenario would be if DOGE got full admin access to agency systems. We can report at at least one agency DOGE has unfettered "god mode" access. Our latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Join @ecnl.bsky.social at RightsCon in Taipei, largest global summit on human rights in the digital age with stellar colleagues leading and contributing to discussions on our brighter (digital) future @marle.bsky.social karolina iwanska, @therealfranfanu.bsky.social : ecnl.org/news/where-f...

Protesters gathered in front of a Tesla showroom on Van Ness Ave. Wednesday evening to protest Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency. 📸: Dan Hernandez/The Chronicle

Alphabet/Google today removed a section on diversity from its annual SEC filing. No more "we are committed to making DEI part of everything we do" Also it broadened language on using contractors and replaced a reference to wanting "productive" employees to wanting ones who "perform at a high level"

New from 404 Media: Employees working at DOGE have been ordered to stop using Slack while government lawyers attempt to transition the agency to one that is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Means DOGE will be even more secretive and unaccountable www.404media.co/doge-employe...

i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗

My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

And hey, there's always a petition. sign.moveon.org/petitions/do... The recording of the full Zoom call (a little over an hour) is on YouTube, if you want to see folks explain this all a lot better than I can. www.youtube.com/watch?v=55yf...

Frustrated there's not more I can do directly, but for now I can just try to document reality. Elon is bringing his Twitter destruction playbook to the US government, and it's impossible to explain just how serious and bad this is. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...

In What’s in an Algorithm? Empowering Users Through Nutrition Labels for Social Media Recommender Systems, Luca Belli & @marle.bsky.social propose introducing labels for recommender systems that enable transparency, mitigate harm, and promote users' rights. knightcolumbia.org/content/what...

Signal president @meredithmeredith.bsky.social says the company will not comply with the proposed U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ law requiring mandatory message scanning before https://fortune.com/2023/07/13/signal-president-mass-surveillance-uk-law/

Apple finally joins the fight against the scanning provisions UK's Online Safety Bill. As noted encryption policy expert Lizzo would say: it's about damn time. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66028773

At ECNL we’re grateful to be part of the convo on civic freedoms & risk assessments re 🇪🇺Digital Services Act (DSA). Stay tuned for new work w/@accessnow Let’s keep the engagement going,centering & elevating marginalized voices like racialized persons, women & LGBTQI! ✊✊🏾🏳️‍🌈

On Sunday Turkey votes in what is probably one of the most important election of the year. Together with Article19 we documented how Turkey‘s control over the internet threatens the election - and how social media platforms are simply not doing a good enough job 👇🏻 https://t.co/Bvx7MA222V