Kristin Alvandi
@kristinalvandi.bsky.social
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Born in NY made in दिल्ली | Keeping kids safe online | all takes my own
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Juliet Shen
about 14 hours ago
At the heart of all safety teams is the need for scaled review, auditable decisions, intentional automation, and accurate decisions. Coop 1.0 brings together the features that safety teams need to stay agile in a changing landscape whether you're a startup or enterprise!
roost.tools/blog/coop-1-...
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Coop 1.0: World’s First Free, Open Source Child Safety Infrastructure for Every Platform
Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
https://roost.tools/blog/coop-1-0-world-s-first-free-open-source-child-safety-infrastructure-for-every-platform/
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Opus 4.8 is fun! Writes better. Builds better. Only downside is my tokens are being used up- fast! ⚡️
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Tech Policy Press
18 days ago
At a Senate hearing on Wednesday, survivor parents and lawmakers accused tech platforms of knowingly harming kids through addictive algorithms and unsafe design. Senators also renewed calls to pass KOSA, with some calling to reform or repeal Section 230 to hold platforms accountable.
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Transcript: Senate Hearing Uses Social Media Verdicts to Press the Case for KOSA
Highlights and transcript from a Senate subcommittee hearing on the landmark social media verdicts and kids online safety.
https://buff.ly/SzKmdX9
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Riana
18 days ago
NCMEC's full 2025 CyberTipline report is out. 1.5MM reports "with a GAI [generative AI] nexus," but removing Amazon's useless 1.1MM reports, >182K reports of possession or (attempted) generation of GAI CSAM. That's the number to report: 182K, not 1.5 million.
www.missingkids.org/gethelpnow/c...
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CyberTipline Data
https://www.missingkids.org/gethelpnow/cybertipline/cybertiplinedata
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Amazing resource!!
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Insane. This was one of the books that got me into volunteering, then a career in anti sex- trafficking work now trust & safety. Sad to hear young people can’t read this!
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about 1 month ago
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“These are real women being transformed, not just a random AI-generated person.”
www.wired.com/story/ai-por...
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These Men Allegedly Profit Off Teaching People How to Make AI Porn
Three Arizona women have filed a lawsuit against a group of men that alleges they used the women’s photos to make AI porn influencers, then offered online courses showing others how to do it.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-porn-lawsuit-arizona/
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Juliet Shen
about 1 month ago
@alixdunn.com
nails it and calls for solidarity for everyone that works on these issues, especially those that do important work for digital human rights around the world (and in places that might be more restrictive than Zambia)
open.spotify.com/episode/2R62...
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/2R62h4uVxovABC9pjfebFt?si=16d2f9f905d94856
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Chhaya Kapadia
about 1 month ago
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.
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Talita Pessoa
about 1 month ago
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.
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This is wild. Really proud of Access Now team for how the handled. Saddened for digital rights everywhere the set back this causes.
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about 1 month ago
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Amazing news!!!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
about 1 month ago
Every New Yorker can get connected to a Family Justice Center by calling 311 or visiting in person. If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic or gender-based violence, help is available.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
about 1 month ago
Today for Denim Day 2026, I visited one of New York City's Family Justice Centers. The staff here connects survivors of domestic and sexual violence to case management, safety planning, child care, financial support, counseling, and legal help.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
about 1 month ago
In 1998, a court decided that a woman's denim jeans meant she must have consented to being raped. This horrifying ruling inspired Denim Day, a day for sexual violence awareness and solidarity with survivors.
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Tech Policy Press
about 1 month ago
In the real world, we resist letting outsiders define values or make meaning for local communities. Why accept it from AI? Sujata Mukherjee and Sasha Maria Mathew make the case for semantic ownership.
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Digital Sovereignty Means Breaking the Western Monopoly on AI Meaning
Semantic ownership is the right of communities to define themselves in AI systems, write Sujata Mukherjee and Sasha Maria Mathew.
https://buff.ly/gKW9Nne
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ROOST
about 1 month ago
How is ROOST thinking about AI-assisted and agentic engineering in safety-critical open source? A new blog from our team shares observations and the principles guiding our approach, anchored in our mission of online safety for all 🐓
roost.tools/blog/navigat...
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Navigating AI-assisted and agentic engineering in critical safety software
Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
https://roost.tools/blog/navigating-ai-assisted-and-agentic-engineering-in-critical-safety-software/
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Jeff Lazarus
about 1 month ago
USAID 2024 budget: $21.4 billion.
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This is unfortunate, especially for all the civil society groups & non-profits with no funds to spare.
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Mashable
about 2 months ago
If sex work is everywhere on 'Euphoria,' why is it still being erased online?
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'Euphoria' made sex work go viral. Real sex workers are still getting censored.
If sex work is everywhere on 'Euphoria,' why is it still being erased online?
https://bit.ly/4tCU6qp
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Emelia
about 2 months ago
I know it's controversial politically, but
@bsky.app
really needs the pronouns thing, because I've seen lots of people accidentally getting people's pronouns wrong (including cis people's) because they're going off a display name and avatar when replying.
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Riana
about 2 months ago
Grok has moved from undressing women's photos to "just" putting them "in more revealing clothing, such as towels, sports bras, skintight Spider-Woman outfits or bunny costumes." But "None of the women in Grok-generated images...were naked, [or] appeared to be minors."
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
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Musk’s Grok AI chatbot is still making sexual deepfakes, despite X’s promise to stop it
An NBC News review found dozens of AI-generated sexualized images of real women posted to X over the past month.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/musks-ai-chatbot-grok-xai-making-sexual-deepfakes-imagine-rcna265855
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dell cameron
about 2 months ago
NEW: Teenage boys are pulling classmates' photos off Insta and running them through cheap nudify apps and the fallout has now hit nearly 90 schools across 28 countries with 600+ known victims since 2023, per a WIRED/Indicator analysis. UNICEF estimates 1.2M children were targeted last year alone.
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The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Much Worse Than You Thought
An analysis by WIRED and Indicator found nearly 90 schools and 600 students around the world impacted by AI-generated deepfake nude images—and the problem shows no signs of going away.
https://www.wired.com/story/deepfake-nudify-schools-global-crisis/
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Juliet Shen
2 months ago
this is honestly THE best write up of how CSAM detection and perceptual handing works. the visual aids are very helpful in understanding how content is transformed and how detection methods work
mahmoud-salem.net/the-invisibl...
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How Do You Find an Illegal Image Without Looking at It?
61.8 million files of suspected child abuse were reported in 2025 alone. This is how machines detect them at internet scale — without any human ever seeing the content.
https://mahmoud-salem.net/the-invisible-shield
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Techdirt
2 months ago
The EU Killed Voluntary CSAM Scanning. West Virginia Is Trying To Compel It. Both Cause Problems. Last week, the European Parliament voted to let a temporary exemption lapse that had allowed tech companies to scan their services for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) without running afoul of…
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The EU Killed Voluntary CSAM Scanning. West Virginia Is Trying To Compel It. Both Cause Problems.
Last week, the European Parliament voted to let a temporary exemption lapse that had allowed tech companies to scan their services for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) without running afoul of strict EU privacy regulations. Meanwhile, here in the US, West Virginia's Attorney General continues to press forward with a lawsuit designed to force Apple to scan iCloud for CSAM, apparently oblivious to the fact that succeeding would hand defense attorneys the best gift they've ever received.
http://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/01/the-eu-killed-voluntary-csam-scanning-west-virginia-is-trying-to-compel-it-both-cause-problems/
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Tech Policy Press
2 months ago
AI tools detect CSAM, grooming and self-harm, but nobody knows how well. Much of the AI industry has adopted 'model cards' for transparency—it's time the developers of child safety tools caught up, write Camille François, Margaret Mitchell, Yacine Jernite, Vinay Rao & J. Nathan Matias.
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Why AI ‘Model Cards’ Are an Urgent Necessity for Child Safety
Children deserve to be protected as robustly as possible — and that requires tools we can actually understand, writes a team of experts.
https://www.techpolicy.press/why-ai-model-cards-are-an-urgent-necessity-for-child-safety/
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Joe Beda
over 1 year ago
Protect trans kids.
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shouting out how great using Osprey is for investigating! Go
@roost.tools
@julietshen.bsky.social
#opensource
#tssummit
#trustandsafety
3 months ago
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JD (by way of Blacksky)
3 months ago
Anyone that has done content moderation before knows that emotional support/wellbeing tools are always developed secondary to the work (usually in response to burn out etc). Putting it first, ensures that moderators can take an approach to the work that actually centers their wellbeing.
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Forbes
3 months ago
The lawsuit concerned allegations that Meta covered up its platforms’ impact on children's mental health and its knowledge of child exploitation online.
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Meta Must Pay $375 Million Over Allegedly Enabling Child Exploitation
The lawsuit concerned allegations that Meta covered up its platforms’ impact on children's mental health and its knowledge of child exploitation online.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/03/24/meta-must-pay-375-million-over-allegedly-enabling-child-exploitation/?utm_campaign=forbes&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Forbes
3 months ago
Meta is updating its child safety standards as countries across the globe consider social media bans for teenagers.
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Instagram Will Alert Parents If Teens Search For Suicide, Self-Harm Content
Meta is updating its child safety standards as countries across the globe consider social media bans for teenagers.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/02/26/instagram-will-alert-parents-if-teens-search-for-suicide-self-harm-content/?utm_campaign=forbes&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Juliet Shen
3 months ago
new from
@katiemcque.bsky.social
:
@riana.bsky.social
has talked about this at length, but the actionability of reports submitted by tech companies to NCMEC is a huge unsolved and growing problem
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta’s AI sending ‘junk’ tips to DoJ, US child abuse investigators say
Officers say flood of low-quality reports is draining resources and slowing cases amid New Mexico lawsuit
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/25/meta-ai-junk-child-abuse-tips-doj
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Riana
3 months ago
When Congress incentivizes over-reporting but leaves what to report up to platforms’ discretion (since for constitutional reasons the govt can’t tell private actors what to do), this is what you get. If NCMEC or LE can’t directly tell platforms what to (not) do, they drag them in the press instead.
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Techdirt
3 months ago
West Virginia’s Anti-Apple CSAM Lawsuit Would Help Child Predators Walk Free West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey wants you to think he's protecting children. His press release says so. His legal complaint opens with the genuinely horrific line that Apple has, in internal communications,…
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West Virginia’s Anti-Apple CSAM Lawsuit Would Help Child Predators Walk Free
West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey wants you to think he's protecting children. His press release says so. His legal complaint opens with the genuinely horrific line that Apple has, in internal communications, described itself as the "greatest platform for distributing child porn." He makes sure you know that Google made 1.47 million CSAM reports to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in 2023 while Apple made just 267.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/west-virginias-anti-apple-csam-lawsuit-would-help-child-predators-walk-free/
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Tech Policy Press
3 months ago
Through the EU's DSA and US litigation, new evidence is emerging about how social media platforms understand and address risks to minors. Peter Chapman and Matt Steinberg analyze what these parallel processes uncover about how platforms assess risk and design.
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What US Lawsuits Reveal About Platform Design That DSA Reports Don’t
EU risk assessments and platform litigation in the US represent distinct approaches to governing and mitigating risks posed by social media platforms.
https://www.techpolicy.press/what-us-lawsuits-reveal-about-platform-design-that-dsa-reports-dont/
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Max Berger
4 months ago
The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal. Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.
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Tech Policy Press
4 months ago
Amid the deals and demos at the India AI Impact Summit this week, the opportunity to shift the global debate about AI and what kind of world we are building appears to be lost, writes Tech Policy Press contributing editor Amber Sinha.
www.techpolicy.press/indias-ai-su...
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India’s AI Summit Could Prove to be New Delhi's Lost Opportunity
Amid the dollar signs and demos, the opportunity to shift the global debate about AI and what world we are building appears to be lost, writes Amber Sinha.
https://www.techpolicy.press/indias-ai-summit-could-prove-to-be-new-delhis-lost-opportunity/
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)
4 months ago
OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
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A must read fiction book honoring Fred in the best way. SO good. One of my fave books this year! Even more chilling with what is happening now.
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from Resolver “The Com” my takeaway: this isn’t one group it’s a growing network of online harms that spreads across platforms and mixes CSAM, self-harm, extremism & cybercrime. Addressing it requires coordinated action. No more silos! Read the full briefing here:
ter.li/7ffbot
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Incredibly rough to read but there needs to be more clarity in what platforms need to report to NCMEC & LE these annotations in the form are confusing.
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4 months ago
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Riana
4 months ago
This is huge news. I have spent the past 6 months wondering wtf was up with Amazon: they filed 380,000 AI-related CyberTipline reports to NCMEC in the first half of 2025. Turns out ALL of it was known CSAM they found by screening their AI training data. It's NOT AI-generated or AI-morphed CSAM.
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Juliet Shen
4 months ago
production-grade tools for online safety CAN be built in the public, and CAN be collaboratively developed by engineers across different organizations. We're proud to announce Osprey and so grateful to all the contributors who made this possible! Release notes here:
github.com/roostorg/osp...
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Riana
5 months ago
I'm over a week late in reading this, but huge kudos to Charlie Warzel and Matteo Wong for doing the thing I thought nobody seemed to be doing, which is asking xAI's investors why they're giving money to the deepfake NCII/CSAM machine (spoiler alert: no answers):
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This
If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/elon-musk-cannot-get-away-with-this/685606/
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Tech Policy Press
4 months ago
The EU is the latest regulator to investigate X’s Grok over AI-generated sexual abuse. Ramsha Jahangir reports on where governments stand — and what the fragmented response shows about the challenges of protecting children online across borders.
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Regulators Are Going After Grok and X — Just Not Together
The Grok response shows regulators remain aligned on principles but divided by legal systems, timelines, and enforcement capabilities, reports Ramsha Jahangir.
https://buff.ly/L4iMQJN
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Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)
4 months ago
Our new memorandum of understanding with
@ofcom.bsky.social
builds on strong existing relationship and lays the groundwork for how we can assist Ofcom in its duties under the Online Safety Act. Read more on our website.
www.iwf.org.uk/news-media/n...
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Ofcom and IWF reinforce partnership in fight against child sexual abuse online
A new agreement between Ofcom and the Internet Watch Foundation has strengthened the UK’s commitment to cracking down on online child sexual abuse imagery.
https://www.iwf.org.uk/news-media/news/ofcom-and-iwf-reinforce-partnership-in-fight-against-online-child-sexual-abuse/
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Anne Bertucio
4 months ago
@cassidyjames.com
and I will be at
#FOSDEM
and will be demoing* Osprey in our talk Sunday morning:
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
*Let's be honest, should we really test the wifi and live demo overlords first thing Sunday morning? Probably not. Probably pre-recorded.
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