OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

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.

New #research 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

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.

It is very cool!!

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

@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.

Online safety laws like the DSA are expanding. For hosting providers and registrars, the challenge is building safety models that align with new and emerging laws. On Feb 4, DTSP is hosting a webinar on how DTSP’s Safe Framework supports domain registries with compliance.

Companies should NOT be criticized for the amount CSAM reported. Companies SHOULD be criticized for sending high FP rates to NCMEC & low quality reports ie no location or data that can’t go to LE these def slow down helping kids!! #childsafety #ncmec #reportact www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Funding ICE yet Trump admin has aggressively rolled back efforts to combat human trafficking, including sex trafficking, and cut funding to support survivors of these crimes: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

I spoke with WIRED about the risks online age verification present, especially under the threat of an administration that will do anything in their power to surveil, oppress, and kill us. www.wired.com/story/age-ve...

Well that is comforting

This is why there is no free speech without anonymous speech. This is why online ID checks / age verification is incompatible with the 1st amendment and human rights. This is why "make everyone use their real names" is not a real solution to online hate & harm www.politico.com/newsletters/...

- if your friends & coworkers are still using X or if they like to use Grok, ask them why they're supporting the NCII/CSAM machine - ask your state AG's office what they're doing about this - and, of course, ICE must be abolished www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

A few options: * If you've been victimized: 19thnews.org/2025/05/take... www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m... * Tell Apple & Google to nix Grok/X from app stores: www.theverge.com/policy/85990... * Write to xAI's investors: x.ai/news/series-e * Call your reps: www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Must read article.

2026 is poised to be another landmark year for the child online safety debate in the US. To get a sense of what's to come, Tech Policy Press senior editor Cristiano Lima-Strong spoke to Common Sense Media's Amina Fazlullah, CDT's Kate Ruane, and the Digital Progress Institute's Joel Thayer.

This was a month ago, since then, X has become an industrial scale child sexual abuse material and non-consensual intimate images factory, producing thousands of such images rapidly. I find it surprising that StopNCII even still lists X as a partner. They should be removed.

putting it behind a paywall is not "turning it off" lol what www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

NCOSE, the central group pushing KOSA and other censorship bills, not only is verified on X, but is actively using the CSAM scandal to milk engagement on the platform. X is currently ignoring age-verification laws in multiple states, but instead of boycotting, they're juicing.

In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼 www.theverge.com/news/859309/...

I'm glad to see this pressure on Google and Apple. If any other company was running an active CSAM generator in public you better believe it would have been removed from their app stores by now www.wired.com/story/x-grok...

Where the hell are Google and Apple enforcing their app store terms of service on X? Grok doing CSAM should instantly be a removal from the app store. Any other app doing this would be pulled instantly. Journalists should be asking for comment from these companies.

“what ensued was countless more images produced by Grok at user requests that were much more explicit, and eventually, some of those were underage,” St. Clair said. “Photos of me of 14 years old, undressed and put in a bikini.” www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

There's an old saying in business that you should never launch an enterprise product on the same day as your CSAM scandal. But Elon didn't get to where he is playing by the rules

More reaction to Maduro’s “arrest”

just gonna drop some links to a few papers of mine about AI-CSAM and the law here, for no particular reason cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/news/ai-csam... (May 2025) partnershiponai.org/hai-research... (November 2024) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/addr... (February 2024)

We need new words to describe this because "hypocrisy" just doesn't work any more.

I still can't get over the fact that the AI Safety Institute, which produces safety guidance like this one published yesterday, had to be renamed "AI Security Institute" because safety is a trigger word for some

Senator Durbin has had this explained to him multiple times. Getting rid of 230 doesn't help this, but will make it worse. It will make it impossible for smaller sites to exist (like this one) and will give MORE POWER to companies like Meta and X. Why would Durbin want to do that?

PSA don’t buy a lovesac couch. Just don’t. It’s the worst customer service experience I’ve ever had trying to get this horrid thing returned. If I get divorced blame this couch. I hate it. 😭

Nudes. Suggestive videos. You name it – children are sharing it. Whether they’re sharing their own images or forwarding them from others, it’s important that we talk about the risks. Download our How to Talk guide for top tips on how to get the conversation started: www.thinkbeforeyoushare.org.

For me, the most telling thing about the Australia ban in particular is that the government communication to teenagers about it includes significant amounts of crisis response and suicide prevention information. Because the government knows they're yanking a lifeline out from under a lot of people.

Counterpoint: don’t

Here's a link to a non-paywalled copy of the story from Reuters bsky.app/profile/soci...

If you were a tech company employee who moderated content overseas — say, trying to prevent a repeat of the Myanmar genocide! or maybe policing CSAM! Or hate speech illegal in your country! — you are a “censor” under the definitions of the Republicans in power. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

More nonsense. X faces liability under the 🇪🇺 Digital Services Act for (1) deceiving users by selling blue ✔️ for "verified" users (2) inadequate ad transparency, and (3) researcher access to data. The Commission has not moved past investigating how X handles unlawful content or Community Notes... 🧵

Don't let anyone — not even the US Secretary of State — tell you that the European Commission's €120 million enforcement against Elon Musk’s X under the Digital Service Act is about censorship, writes Daphne Keller. It’s just the EU enforcing some normal, boring requirements of its law, she says.

New from me: It's high time for T&S leaders at big tech platforms to speak up. We need to hear the US-based VPs of T&S at Apple, Google, Meta, TikTok and other platforms say in one voice that content moderation is not censorship.

Content moderation is not censorship; platforms have a First Amendment right to set civility guidelines on their services. Fact-checking is not censorship; it is a type of counterspeech that Justice Brandeis would have favored. Online safety is not censorship; it prevents voices being silenced.

EU countries have finally agreed on a position on the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation, three years after it was first proposed. We urge negotiators to swiftly extend the temporary derogation and allow tech companies to keep detecting #CSAM voluntarily. www.iwf.org.uk/news-media/s...

Images shared in confidence by young people are routinely being ‘leaked’. Some teens (mostly boys) are even engaging in ‘collecting’ behaviours of nude imagery. We must educate and protect our children in the digital world. Find out more at thinkbeforeyoushare.org/parents-and-...

Uffffff 🫠

Good fucking riddance to Character AI for kids: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/char...

Grateful to @jonathanvanian.bsky.social and colleagues at CNBC for centering victim/survivors in this deep dive on AI nudifiers.