Europe is rapidly rolling out age-verification — in the name of “child safety.” 🚷 But is it actually working? Our first audit found AgeGO’s selfie feature streamed biometric data straight to Amazon. 🪪 Our new report examines AgeVerif: What we found raises serious concerns. 👇

Last week, 5 major porn sites rolled out “age verification” in France to comply with regulators. 3 of them — xvideos, xnxx, tnaflix — use AgeGO. AgeGO: • Collects the exact video URL before consent • Sends webcam streams directly to Amazon • Forces users to give an email via an unskippable step

They are trying to erase trans people and doing it in the open....

I don't even have the words ....

En 2024 et 2025, une agence pro-Orbán a mené une campagne numérique occulte en faveur du Rassemblement national. Des dizaines de contenus ont été diffusés sur X sur la base d’un ciblage politique (ce qui est interdit), selon des données de l’ONG @aiforensics.org partagées avec @mediapart.fr. 👇

#BudapestPride Tout notre soutien aux participants de la #Pride interdite de Budapest ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍 "Another Hungary is Possible" de Laika (artiste hongrois) 2025

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

Wanna check if you've been targeted by ads based on sensitive data? Just drop your X portability archive to find out haveibeentargeted.online

@paulbouchaud.com uncovered some bizarre targeting options on #X that let advertisers do pretty much whatever they want. Want to exclude #LGBT users or target only #Christians? Apparently, it’s possible and done. Have you been targeted like this? 👉 aiforensics.org/work/sensiti...

...he says to Signal's president

X fiche vos opinions politiques, religion, orientation sexuelle, données de santé, origines... Le niveau de laisser faire juste ahurissant. Il est temps de réagir !

How X enables major brands to target your most sensitive personal data - from health conditions to political beliefs - check out our new report! aiforensics.org/work/sensiti...

X a permis à des annonceurs de cibler leurs publicités en fonction de critères politiques, une pratique interdite

Pratique pour Total qui a financé une campagne de pub invisible aux écolos. Ou encore McDo qui fait sa promo tout en évitant soigneusement les syndicats. www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...

Sorry everyone, but these are the rules* *That cis people made up

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.

"“The alleged underenforcement of Meta’s monitoring policies cannot give rise to liability,” the co wrote last year in a motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging negligence in removing crypto scams, adding it “does not owe a duty to users” to address fraud on its platforms. www.wsj.com/tech/meta-fr...

NEW: A secretive surveillance company is building "AI persona" bots for cops intended to gather evidence on people. Personas include "college protesters," "radicalized" divorced moms, children. We have docs that shows how it works and what cops can do with it: www.404media.co/this-college...

"This is a highly adversarial space, we are investing a lot in our detection systems..." Meanwhile, our latest report at @aiforensics.org found Meta reviewed, approved, and displayed fake medicine advertisements over 292 million times to EU users since the DSA took effect.

Case closed! 🤩💥🚀. 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...

Ah si. L’info du jour c’est ça : les travaux de Paul Bouchaud montrent que Meta ne modère pas les publicités politiques (d’où les nombreuses pub de Doppelganger qui sont restées sur Facebook pendant des mois). Mais par contre ça, ils ont modéré… Ccl : le modèle économique de Meta c’est caca.

By cross-referencing thousands of Doppelgänger advertisements and leaked assets, we document with @checkfirst.network and Reset.Tech the sustained access of the "Social Design Agency" to Meta's advertising ecosystem, despite being under US and EU sanctions. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/b...

Despite international sanctions, #Meta is accepting payments from Russian propagandists. Our latest report with @aiforensics.org & Reset underscore how Meta has failed to moderate over 8,000 political ads from the Kremlin-linked Social Design Agency (SDA). #SDALeak

Well there you have it. In his Rogan Interview Zuck argues that the “billions of EU fines” against US companies “basically amount to tariffs”, and “you’d expect the USG to defend its companies” abroad moving forward. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k1e...

Instagram zealously removes non-cis-male nipples, yet Meta profits from thousands of porn-filled ads on their platforms. In our last report, we documented Meta's double standards in content moderation. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Sur Facebook et Instagram, des milliers de publicités pornographiques non modérées

Heureusement que Zuckerberg "ne veut plus s'investir en politique" 🙃 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/t...

MUST READ: CDT’s Gabe Nicholas pens Op-Ed for Foreign Policy about how #AI companies can share information with researchers about how people use their products so we can have better AI policy. foreignpolicy.com/20... 

Pairs well with @jatucker.bsky.social + Zeve Sanderson: www.techpolicy.press/beyond-red-t...

While skimming through tens of Doppelgänger propaganda ads approved by Meta, for a total reach over 200k people in France, Germany, Italy, and Poland over the past two weeks, I stumbled upon an interesting slip-up in one of their ads 👇

As the EU elections are coming up this Sunday, let's take a closer look at the French political discussion on X. By pulling together reposts from politicians and activists, we see a similar structure as the one reported in 2023 by ISCPIF politoscope.org

After publishing its Adversarial Threat Report on Wednesday, Meta approved new pro-Russian propaganda ads to run on Thursday, which linked to spoofed domains impersonating news media. No systemic measures appear to have been implemented to moderate political advertisements, days before the elections

Hundreds of pro-Russian ads are still spreading on Meta’s platform Facebook barely a week before the European election and despite an ongoing EU investigation, according to new research shared exclusively with POLITICO.

Les facebook ads et la propagande pro-russe. Par @paulbouchaud.com et @al.checkfirst.network checkfirst.network/unchecked-po...

Better late than never, I guess... But moderating propaganda ads before they go live would certainly be more impactful than after they become inactive

Les propagandistes pro-russes exploitent la situation en Nouvelle-Calédonie pour affaiblir le soutien français à l'Ukraine, et Meta approuve les publicités sans avertissement politique.

Less than 3 weeks to the EU elections and Meta is still letting foreign interference slide on its ads platform! If we can detect these campaigns, so should Meta. Time to step up and act on the commitment to "preserve the integrity of these elections on our platforms."

[job] À VIGINUM, notre mission est de détecter et caractériser les manipulations de l'information impliquant des acteurs étrangers dans le débat public français. Nous recrutons un•e dev fullstack pour renforcer le pôle technique. scraping, collecte de données mais aussi dev d'outils en interne.

With only five weeks left before the EU elections, the European Commission's investigation on #Meta will have to demonstrate if the #DSA can deliver results to protect the #elections from foreign interference and #disinformation spread through online platforms. 👇 www.disinfo.eu/eu-disinfola...

🚨After our recent study revealed Meta's flawed moderation of political ads, enabling massive foreign interference weeks ahead of the elections, the EU Commission is launching an investigation into potential Digital Services Act violations.

Meta fails to apply moderation decisions across duplicated ads. Meta considers the content of this ad to be against their Advertising Standards, yet this pro-Kremlin propaganda ad has been shown to 252,528 accounts, and is still running.

For data scientists and data engineers interested in democracy, please see positions posted at Northeastern for positions at the Internet Democracy Initiative (please reshare): northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Don't miss this brilliant investigation by AI Forensics! Insightful & precise. Very happy to be mentioned twice: for our #FacebookHustles research and our recent study with Mozilla. -- @cram.bsky.social

A well-known disinformation network is growing on Facebook by pushing pro-Kremlin narratives with ads purchased through fake accounts, just weeks ahead of Europe's major election in June, according to an investigation shared exclusively with POLITICO.

With the EU elections just weeks out, Meta still neglects to enforce its political ads policy, allowing covert political ops, including massive pro-Russian propaganda. aiforensics.org/work/meta-po...

Exclu Next : selon une nouvelle étude d'AI Forensics, Meta échoue à modérer correctement ses publicités, notamment politiques, quand bien même les élections européennes approchent. next.ink/134519/elect...

Online platforms’ transparency falls short ahead of EU elections, says Mozilla

Thrilled to announce the publication of my latest research in the Journal of Computational Social Science. I explore how engagement-based recommender systems affect the diversity of content displayed to users on social media. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Shotspotter mics apparently only used in .... certain neighborhoods in New York City.

Today we open an investigation into TikTok over suspected breach of transparency & obligations to protect minors: 📱Addictive design & screen time limits 🕳️ Rabbit hole effect 🔞 Age verification 🔐 Default privacy settings Enforcing DSA for safer Internet for youngsters