Malgré les mesures d’atténuation des risques annoncées par #TikTok depuis 2024, la plateforme continue d’exposer les utilisateurs·rices vulnérables à des contenus qui normalisent l’automutilation, le désespoir et les idées suicidaires. 🧵👇

❌ Santé mentale des jeunes : Amnesty International poursuit sa fronde contre TikTok et annonce saisir l’Arcom 🔎 La branche française de l’ONG publie une enquête démontrant les effets néfastes du réseau social, qui héberge et met en avant d’innombrables vidéos problématiques. Lire 👇

Two years after “Driven into the Darkness”, here’s our second deep dive into TikTok’s disturbing rabbit holes taking teens from #sadtok into self-harm and suicide content. Together with @katiaroux.bsky.social, I spoke to young people & bereaved parents about the real-world impact of “systemic risks”

The CSDDD has the potential to vastly improve the human rights of a great many. Full repeal would be a significant mistake.

J’ai déposé une plainte contre Facebook auprès de l’Arcom hier, pour manquement à ses obligations liées au Digital Services Act (DSA). La raison : une modération aux abonnés absents, impliquant un potentiel risque systémique.

🚨 TikTok is still failing to address serious risks of harm to children and young people’s mental health almost 18 months after @Amnesty highlighted these risks in an extensive research project. Our analysis marking #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

In June, the 30th Budapest Pride will take place, in defiance of this new legislation. Amnesty will be marching alongside all those who oppose discrimination and has launched a campaign to tackle this new wave of anti-LGBTI legislation in Hungary. #LetPrideMarch

A day long awaited by the families of those murdered in his War on Drugs. And his War on Human Rights Defenders, which received less International attention. But this is only the first step towards accountabilty. Extradiction next... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Cette semaine, l’Assemblée nationale examine une proposition de résolution visant à créer une commission d'enquête sur "les effets psychologiques de TikTok sur les mineurs". @amnesty.org alerte depuis plusieurs années sur ces effets. 🧵👇 www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/texte...

Almost all parties lost votes to the far-right extremist AfD, but they won the most votes (~ 2m) from non-voters. AfD voters meanwhile didn’t really move at all. So much for pandering to the far-right. You play on their terms, you lose. https://buff.ly/4hQ5RUq

Spyware maker Paragon confirms US government is a customer | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/spyware-maker-paragon-confirms-u-s-government-is-a-customer/ #paragon #USA

Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.

Republican congresswoman Nancy Mace suggests, ‘Let’s turn Gaza into Mar-A-Lago,’ after Trump’s vow to ‘take over’ Gaza. Could there be a more cynical, ignorant take on the suffering of Palestinians? www.newsweek.com/republican-s...

Große Überraschung: Ein „Die-Migration-ist-die-Mutter-aller-Probleme“-Wahlkampf der Union kommt vor allem der „Die-Migration-ist-die-Mutter-aller-Probleme“-Partei AfD zugute. Meisterleistung.

Billionaire wealth surged by $2T in 2024, says Oxfam. But let’s be real: secrecy jurisdictions and non-public UBO registers mean this is likely an underestimate. The true figure could be even higher. Transparency matters. #WealthInequality #TaxJustice

“Banning TikTok does nothing to address the endemic human rights risks and harms associated with the surveillance-based business models of TikTok and other major tech companies” www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Europe orders Elon Musk’s X to submit documents on its recommendation algorithms

🚨This Wednesday Join Nobel Maria Ressa, journalists Rana Ayyub and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and Oscar winner Asif Kapadia in an online conversation about the rise of techno-authoritarianism and the film 2073, just days before the US inauguration. RSVP here www.eventbrite.com/e/a-warning-...

Amnesty is doing an other round of Digital Forensics Fellowship, they are looking for 5 to 7 human rights defenders, journalists or technologists working with civil society organizations to receive training on digital forensics and digital threats. careers.amnesty.org/jobs/vacancy...

This is the environment in which volunteer editors are meant to take on fact-checking on Meta’s platforms…

ICYMI What Meta's new policy will mean in practice (among other things)

now that authoritarian bullies are in charge, Zuck can get rid of the pretense he cares about race-baiting right wing propaganda and hate speech online, and fully pursue mindless engagement chasing under the pretense he's just super interested in free speech and fighting "censorship"

Our yearly Digital Forensics Fellowship (DFF) applications are now open. Running from April – July 2025, we'll do skillsharing on researching digital threats and forensic techniques. careers.amnesty.org/jobs/vacancy...

Our New Year's Resolution is to continue challenging Big Tech's power and abuses. We hope you will join us in that fight. Here's a little about what we have been up to with 120+ organisations and concerned citizens in 2024 💪 #PvBT #BigTech #DigitalRevolution

New social media policies: here's a new tool, it's faulty in ways we know and ways we don't know, you can use it, but if things go wrong it's all on you. #AIEthics english.elpais.com/technology/2...

Die volle Härte der Zivilgesellschaft 
„Law and Order“-Politik bietet nicht mehr als Scheinlösungen. Sie schleift die Grund- und Freiheitsrechte aller. Wir halten dagegen und geben der Zivilgesellschaft eine Stimme. 
netzpolitik.org/2024/gegen-d... #vollehaerte 
#vollehaerte

Meta - "One person, who spoke anonymously, shared leaked internal documents about a change made to Instagram's algorithm, which toughened the moderation of Palestinians commenting on Instagram posts."- BBC News - How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories www.bbc.com/news/article...

🚨 BREAKING: Amnesty’s latest report on digital surveillance in Serbia: new *NoviSpy* spyware discovered; zero days identified and patched; and first evidence showing use of Cellebrite UFED forensic products to unlock phones to then infect with spyware. 🧵 securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2024/...

Funny story Know who else Meta gave $1 Million to? Not a group of Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, who wanted it to build a school b/c they didn't have one, after FB helped enable ethnic cleansing against them at home Nope. FB called it "philanthropic activities" and said we don't do that

"The more they arrest our members, the more defenders are coming up. We will be always here fighting for environmental justice."

Amnesty's new report concludes that Israeli authorities have committed – and still are committing - genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

In Oct, in our case against Meta the Kenyan Court of Appeal ruled Meta CAN be sued in Kenya by Content Moderators. A Senate bill was then proposed aiming to stop workers suing Big Tech in Kenya. Read what workers are saying about it here nation.africa/kenya/busine...

👀🔎 Last week Big Tech companies published their first reports of how they assess the systemic risks of their platforms to users under the EU’s Digital Services Act. Here’s what we’ve found so far: 🧵

Great to see growing diversity in the digital rights community on here. For all the excitement around this platform, it still feels very US/Europe-centric. I’d love to leave the toxicity of X behind, but as researchers & journalists we shouldn’t just talk to each other in a Global Minority bubble.

Public authorities need to stop buying this sh1t. Flagging suicidal tendencies among children with an AI that no-one seems to know if actually works? The privacy, safety, safeguarding issues are 😱

Amnesty International Australia on why we as a human rights org reject proposals to ban teens from social media. TLDR: tackle algorithmic harms, enforce meaningful data protection & safety by design instead of cutting children off and risking new privacy harms www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

In Brussels today for the launch of Ctrl Alt + Reclaim, a youth movement for a new digital future free from addiction and harm 💪🏼 check out our manifesto here! ctrl-alt-reclaim.github.io

Disappointing news from Thailand. Bangkok Civil Court has dismissed the lawsuit against NSO Group filed by Thai activist Jatupat Boonpattararaksa - one of 35 Thai activists targeted with Pegasus spyware between 2020 and 2021. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Hi all, let’s give this place a try then. Chatting platform regulation, children and young people’s perspectives on tech justice, digital policy in mad times. More about my team’s work on mental health rabbit holes and addictive design #FixTikTok here: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...