Adele Zeynep Walton
@adelewalton.bsky.social
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Author, online safety campaigner, journalist, hater of tech bros.
https://www.adelesnotes.co.uk/
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š IāVE WRITTEN A BOOK š Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World publishes with Trapeze in June 2025 and is now available to pre-order!
www.waterstones.com/book/logging...
about 1 year ago
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People Vs Big Tech
25 days ago
@crtl-alt-reclaimfr.bsky.social
started out as a small bootcamp in Summer'24 - bringing together young people from around Europe who wanted to do something about the harm that social media was doing to young lives. Now itās a pan-European movement, see Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
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āDonāt pander to the tech giants!ā How a youth movement for digital justice is spreading across Europe
Gen Z are the first generation to have grown up with social media, they were the earliest adopters, and therefore the first to suffer its harms. Now they are fighting back
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/09/youth-movement-digital-justice-spreading-across-europe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Ketan Joshi
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Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault
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Tribune
3 months ago
For those on the Right, free speech means the freedom to spread misinformation, fear, and hatred without being held to account. Read
@adelewalton.bsky.social
on the UK Online Safety Act.
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Redefining Free Speech
The UK Online Safety Act aims to protect people online. Could the legislation reinstate the principles of free speech and preserve democratic debate?
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/redefining-free-speech
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I wrote about my thoughts on Instagramās repost feature. Itās a smart and sinister move to keep us hooked at a time when posting on social media platforms feels too icky.
loggingoffclub.substack.com/p/new-instag...
5 months ago
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Marlborough LitFest
5 months ago
Don't miss some fabulous poetry and non-fiction events covering a wealth of topics this year from 25-28 September:
#BrianBilston
@picadorbooks.bsky.social
and
@adelewalton.bsky.social
@hachetteuk.bsky.social
and
@jsthrillers.bsky.social
@hachetteuk.bsky.social
Tickets:
bit.ly/3V3goBC
#MLF2025
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my latest for
@theobserveruk.bsky.social
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5 months ago
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Spoke at the Lush 30th anniversary this week about my book and why I became an online safety campaigner š
6 months ago
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My idol turned mentor interviewed me for my debut book last night š„¹
@graceblakeley.substack.com
6 months ago
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Grace Blakeley
6 months ago
Very excite for this event in Bristol on Weds with the brilliant
@adelewalton.bsky.social
- tickets still available:
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/#e127...
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:events ā bookhaus:
https://www.bookhausbristol.com/events/#e127278
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Robert Reich
6 months ago
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.Ā Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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Michaela Makusha
6 months ago
I'm this month's guest writer in The Logging Club newsletter, discussing the yearning I have for the children to be able to log into child-centric spaces online. So much fun working with
@adelewalton.bsky.social
- whose book you should read if you have not!!
open.substack.com/pub/loggingo...
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Hands up - who misses the old internet?
Guest newsletter by Michaela Makusha
https://open.substack.com/pub/loggingoffclub/p/hands-up-who-misses-the-old-internet?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=oehpu
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Center for Countering Digital Hate
6 months ago
YouTube says it banned Andrew Tate. So why is his face still all over their platform? Hear from activist and book author
@adelewalton.bsky.social
who explains our findings. Watch. Share. Call on YouTube to stop enabling & profiting from Andrew Tateās extreme misogyny.
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Can't wait to be in Bristol next week discussing all things Big Tech, the broligarchy and logging off with
@graceblakeley.substack.com
. Get your tickets here:
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/#e127...
6 months ago
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Alex Hanna
6 months ago
In many ways, Bender and Hanna successfully demonstrate that AI is a con. It fails at productivity and intelligence, while the hype launders a series of transformations that harm workers, exacerbate inequality and damage the environment. Nice write-up of The AI Con by Luke Munn
@theconversation.com
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Is AI a con? A new book punctures the hype and proposes some ways to resist
AI slop means faster and cheaper content, and the technical and financial logic of online platforms creates a race to the bottom.
https://theconversation.com/is-ai-a-con-a-new-book-punctures-the-hype-and-proposes-some-ways-to-resist-257015
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Ed Zitron
7 months ago
Interviewing My Brother On My Podcast To Talk About How Smart He Is
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Logging Off in Manchester! š
7 months ago
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Dr Abeba Birhane
7 months ago
this! don't call me a "denialist", "pessimist" or anything negative if I have all the empirical evidence and receipts while the other side shows up with "potentials", "possibilities" & other buzzword. call me an expert, a scientist or a realist
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Blackwell's Manchester
7 months ago
Such a great evening listening to
@adelewalton.bsky.social
and
@sazloureads.bsky.social
discuss Adele's insightful, shocking yet hopeful book Logging Off. We've got signed copies for everyone who couldn't make the event!
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CALL TO ACTION: email your internet provider to urge them to block access to the toxic forum responsible for at least 97 UK deaths including my sister. Template letter:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
7 months ago
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Logging Off listed as one of
@glamour.com
ās top June reads! š
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
7 months ago
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In
@telegraphnews.bsky.social
today speaking about the systemic failure to keep young people safe online. I wrote Logging Off in the hopes that no one else experience the pain that my family have, but until tech companies are hold to account, there will continue to be victims of online harm.
7 months ago
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Spoke on BBC Radio 4 for Start The Week with
@dannydorling.bsky.social
šļøon why fighting against big tech means tackling addictive design at the root, and the need to hold MPs to account for regulating social media companies. Listen back here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
7 months ago
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John āthe importance of ideas & informationā
7 months ago
Another excellent Start the Week - Hidden spaces and dangerous places - chaired by the indefatigable
@tds153.bsky.social
featuring
@adelewalton.bsky.social
@atossaaraxia.bsky.social
@dannydorling.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#StartTheWeek
#Crises
#OnlineSafety
#Freeports
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Start the Week - Hidden spaces and dangerous places - BBC Sounds
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Danny Dorling and Adele Zeynep Walton.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002d9rn?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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Meeting Tony back in 2022 when he shared an ad for help with his smartphone changed my view of the digital world. His was one of the many human stories that inspired me to write Logging Off. Spoke to The Telegraph about our intergenerational friendship!
7 months ago
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A dream launch for Logging Off last night at
@scarlettletters.co.uk
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7 months ago
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Loved chatting to
@alixdunn.com
on this weekās episode of Computer Says Maybe! Listen here:
open.spotify.com/episode/2Z97...
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7 months ago
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The Scarlett Letters
7 months ago
Thank you to everyone who came to a sold-out launch of Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World by
@adelewalton.bsky.social
We have a few signed copies available - get in quickly while stocks last!
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āIt's a timely and useful record of what it means to have grown up online.ā Thank you
@thetimes.com
for this review of Logging Off, ahead of publication day tomorrow!
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
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I lost my sister to an online forum ā hereās what needs to change
Aimee Walton killed herself aged 21 after joining a suicide forum. In Logging Off, her sister Adele Zeynep Walton argues that social media platforms need to take responsibility for their content
https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/logging-off-human-cost-digital-world-adele-zeynep-walton-review-5cxgmb2q0
7 months ago
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Stuart Richards
7 months ago
Really looking forward to reading Logging Off by
@adelewalton.bsky.social
It takes a long hard look at the digital world and big tech, including a bit on Amazon warehouses I even get a mention!
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Pleased to speak to
@politico.com
about the Labour governmentās poor and performative stance on online safety for their Morning Technology Newsletter āļø
7 months ago
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Spoke to Center for the Study of Organised Hate for their latest blog about how
#addictivealgorithms
expose users to harm, the importance of making
#safetybydesign
a foundational principle in tech development. Have a read:
www.csohate.org/2025/05/31/s...
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Why Safety by Design Must Be the Foundation of Our Digital Future
Adele Zeynep Walton discusses how addictive algorithms expose users to harm and the importance of making safety by design a foundational principle in tech development.
https://www.csohate.org/2025/05/31/safety-by-design-digital-future/
7 months ago
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It's publication week and today I'm in
@theipaper.com
speaking about Logging Off, my sister's story and what the government could do to keep other vulnerable people safe online.
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
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'My 21-year-old sister died after using a suicide forum. Why is it still online?'
Adele Zeynep-Walton discovered her sister Aimee accessed a suicide forum before her death. Now she wants to know why the website is allowed to operate
https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/sister-died-joining-suicide-forum-why-online-3718948
7 months ago
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Molly White
7 months ago
Newsletter: An OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries on men it describes as āsubhumanā, and promoting misogynist ideas sourced from online incel forums. āWithout surgery, you wonāt mog genetically superior guys head-on,ā it tells one man.
www.citationneeded.news/openai-incel...
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OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to āsubhumanā men
OpenAI's featured chatbot recommends $200,000 in surgeries while promoting incel ideology
https://www.citationneeded.news/openai-incel-chatbot-subhuman-men/
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Alex Hanna
7 months ago
These people can't stop reinventing phrenology
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Really enjoyed speaking on this episode of Data and The City from
@cpdpconferences.bsky.social
last week š©š»āš»
open.spotify.com/episode/08h2...
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Episode 8: Couture Cool-Down: Data, Dignity & CPDP
Data & The City Ā· Episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/08h2SlZVPONt1rftk55uNO?si=9AVO4EqyQDqREidtZJy7ig
7 months ago
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OMG LOGGING OFF SPOTTED IN UK BOOKSHOPS FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!!!
7 months ago
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In The Guardian in print and online today speaking about the catalyst that triggered me to write Logging Off, and changed my life forever.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
7 months ago
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Tanya O'Carroll
10 months ago
Case closed! š¤©š„š. In settling my case, Meta has agreed to stop processing my personal data for direct marketing purposes. In non-legalese, that means I will no longer be shown surveillance-ads on Facebook.
www.thetimes.com/article/ae70...
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One motherās win over Meta will change social media for everyone
Britons will be able to opt out of targeted advertising after Tanya OāCarrollās David-and-Goliath battle with Meta
https://www.thetimes.com/article/ae70fa6d-1c6a-42e8-8a38-d7ebf450cff2?shareToken=3bb1734c8162d6de3937aabb66bd7a0f
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Tanya O'Carroll
10 months ago
To anyone in the UK who wants to exercise their right to object, the campaign group Eko has created a website for that!
Eko.org/object
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Really enjoyed speaking at
@cpdpconferences.bsky.social
as part of the AI Vulnerability and Dependency on Social Media Panel alongside
@kimvsparrentak.bsky.social
and other great contributors šŖšŗ
7 months ago
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Early copies of Logging Off are in Librebook Brussels! First time seeing my book in a bookshopš„²
8 months ago
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Polling shows that nine in 10 people support policies that prioritise childrenās safety online, even if it means tech companies investing significantly less in the UK.
@mollyroseorg.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Timid new online safety laws wonāt prevent more tragedies like the death of my daughter Molly | Ian Russell
Ofcomās cautious approach leaves vulnerable young people exposed to online threats such as suicide and self-harm
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/16/timid-new-online-safety-laws-wont-prevent-more-tragedies-like-the-death-of-my-daughter-molly
8 months ago
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Kim van Sparrentak
8 months ago
What would you do if your sister was caught in the grip of Big Tech?
@adelewalton.bsky.social
is fighting back, most recently with a powerful book that exposes the system. Come talk with us! Register via
librebook.eu/en_GB/event/...
. Letās work on a better digital future together.
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8 months ago
With
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This Friday! Come along
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8 months ago
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Amnesty International
8 months ago
TikTok says itās safe for children and young peopleābut actions donāt match words. Easy-to-bypass time limits, invasive data collection, not enough protection from harmful content. Sign our #FixTikTok petition & demand change:
http://amn.st/63324NXrer
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Make TikTok safer for children and young people.
It is becoming more toxic and addictive for children. Sign the petition now.
http://amn.st/63322NXreu
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"Angela Rayner approves £1bn Abbots Langley data centre" AI hype is a disaster for people and planet.
www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/2515725...
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https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/25157251.angela-rayner-approves-1bn-abbots-langley-data-centre/
8 months ago
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Really looking forward to speaking at Oxford
@blackwells.bsky.social
on 9th June about my book Logging Off, where I'll also be signing copies! š Tickets here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/adele-zeyn...
8 months ago
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counterhate.com/research/lar...
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The world's largest incel forum reacts to Netflixās Adolescence with hate and conspiracies
CCDH's new research shows that the world's largest incel forum responded to Netflix's 'Adolescence' with misogyny, racism, and antisemitism.
https://counterhate.com/research/largest-incel-forum-reacts-to-netflixs-adolescence-with-hate-and-conspiracies/
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