One Year Trump. Let the past year serve as a reminder of what a malicious, vindictive, greedy leader can do to a country in one year. And let it be a reminder that a strong opposition, strong institutions, and independent and free media are necessary guardrails in a strong democracy.

🎁 Just before the holidays, the EU Commission granted Big Tech its Christmas wish-list: an unprecedented attack on our digital rights. Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we have mapped how the Digital Omnibus closely matches Big Tech lobby demands. 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...

Elon Musk’s X is helping people create indecent images of KIDS. His response to outcry this week? He doesn’t give a f*ck. Imagine his face if millions get the f*ck off of X though. Join millions deleting their accounts. Link in bio to download this poster for free and spread this worldwide.

L'Assemblée nationale vient d'adopter en vote solennel le projet de loi JOP 2030. Malgré les risques pour les droits humains, le texte prévoit la reconduction du dispositif de vidéosurveillance algorithmique prévu par la loi JOP 2024 jusqu’à fin 2027. Pour rappel 👇 www.amnesty.fr/liberte-d-ex...

Yesterday, an #OpenReview vulnerability led to the leak of reviewer identities of all the major academic AI conferences, including the ongoing #ICLR2026 conferences. #ICLRLeaks This is both a huge disaster, and an opportunity to tackle the serious flaws of AI research. eu.36kr.com/en/p/3572028...

Democracy vs authoritarian surveillance: www.salon.com/2025/11/21/h... Standing for democracy and opposing fascism is both essential and non-partisan. So is standing up to neo-McCarthyism.

X just unveiled a new feature, letting users know which country an account is being managed from. Unsurprisingly, many large accounts (MAGA or otherwise) don't appear to match their self-description 🤔

L'Europe est à un tournant. Deux pétitions à signer pour demander à @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu de défendre les citoyens plutôt que de servir les intérêts des barons de la Tech. @wemoveeurope.bsky.social, @avaaz.org az.org, @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social peoplevsbig.tech/standupursula/

A l'heure du Digital Services Act, il est absurde que les grandes plateformes ne disent même pas quels sont leurs posts les plus viraux. Une pétition de @mozilla.org et @algorithmwatch.org demande plus de transparence. www.mozillafoundation.org/en/campaigns...

The European Commission will unveil a “digital omnibus” package later this month to simplify many of its tech laws. The draft document we’ve obtained shows EU officials are planning far-reaching changes to the GDPR to benefit AI developers. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/brus... 

🗞️ "The European Commission is apparently planning a reform of the #GDPR. Max Schrems and noyb are highly critical of the proposal. The plans would 'throw 40 years of European fundamental #rights doctrine out the window.'" 🇪🇺 (from German) 👉 Read more: netzpolitik.org/2025/trumpsc...

Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement. @olivia.science @abeba.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @rocher.lc @danmcquillan.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com & many others have signed www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

How to get rid (at least temporarily) of these annoying AI overviews when doing a Google search? Add something like -AI at the end of the search query. www.pcmag.com/how-to/i-fig...

📢 As the EU's deregulation agenda rolls out the red carpet for corporate interests, our new study shows that the tech industry has ramped up its lobby power: 💰 Lobby spending hits a record €151 million 🕴 Almost 900 tech lobbyists 🤝 Big Tech has lobby 3 meetings a day @lobbycontrol.bsky.social

👀Is that EU competition chief @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu taking a hammer to break up Google?? Today we're sending a loud message to @ec.europa.eu to dismantle Google's toxic advertising monopoly! #BreakUpBigTech. Great work @lobbyctrl-tech.bsky.social bsky.social @rebalance-now.bsky.social 👏👏👏

Google's monopoly power rips off consumers, pollutes our information environment, and destroys the news media. Today's €2.95 billion fine is a start, but won't touch Google's toxic ad-tech monopoly. The EU @ec.europa.eu must hold firm and now break up Google. www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

Cette séquence est un naufrage. C’est le naufrage de Luc Julia d’abord, empêtré dans ses justifications hasardeuses, et c’est surtout le naufrage journalistique et déontologique de BFMTV. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKeF...

Comme le dit @johnnyryan.bsky.social, l'Europe doit résister, ou périr. Chaque renoncement face à Trump serait un clou dans notre cercueil. Le Digital Services Act est l'une des lois pouvant défendre nos démocraties européennes. Protégeons-la et employons-la.

This is spot on. This AI frenzy and madness gives such an eerie feeling. AI is forced upon us at every opportunity as big tech companies try to bag as many billions as possible from venture capital before the music stops. But the environmental and societal damage will be massive and long-lasting.

Today (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19  LLMs, 707 political issues. We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more!  🧵:

this is the very technology orgs like the UN is adopting to "solve" gender inequity

This is outrageous. Full support to @abeba.bsky.social. Dr Birhane's speech “AI for social good: the new face of technosolutionism” was apparently too grounded in reality in this tide of technosolutionism at the "AI for good" summit, which frankly looked like a tech fair.

New poll shows huge majorities of Europeans--74% of Von Der Leyen's own CDU--want a tough stance on Big Tech. This is no time to roll over. Tech is vital infrastructure, and it can be ours again--with a three-part play: Break, build, enforce. w/ @robin.berjon.com: www.politico.eu/article/digi...

La majorité des citoyens Français, Allemands, et Espagnols souhaite que les géants de la tech soient davantage régulés, avec deux fois plus de personnes qui sont pour leur démantèlement que de personnes contre, d'après un nouveau sondage YouGov commandé par @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social.

In this letter, EFJ, @cdteu.bsky.social and other civil society organisations express their grave concerns about the continued unchecked use of #spyware within the European Union. We call for urgent and coordinated EU action to ensure the protection of the rule of law and fundamental rights.

Facial recognition as allowed by Hungarian laws is a form of mass surveillance⚠️ 👉 Sign the petition from @algorithmwatch.org, EDRi, @ecnl.bsky.social, HCLU & @liberties.eu to support: ➡️an enforcement of existing laws & ➡️an end to face recognition in public spaces. 👉 algorithmwatch.org/sign

Meta finance les propagandistes RT et Sputnik via ses programmes de monétisation, au mépris des sanctions européennes, d'après un rapport de @whattofix.tech

🚨 Today we're sending a loud message to the EU to stand up to the tech oligarchy and #BreakUpBigTech! 📣📣 We've delivered a petition from +115,000 people calling on @ec.europa.eu @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu to break up Google, ahead of its major ruling on Google's toxic online advertising monopoly.

Il y a d'inquiétants conflits d'intérêts et liens avec Big Tech chez des chercheurs français... www.franceinfo.fr/societe/educ...

Instagram suspended @eswa-network.bsky.social without warning or explanation, on the eve of Int'l Sex Workers’ Rights Day. This was unacceptable censorship of a human rights network. Even though the account has now been reinstated, it should never have been suspended in the first place.

When it comes to LLMs, this is the only question that matters. And it’s an issue that can’t be engineered away, because LLMs’ correlation-based epistemology is fundamentally incompatible with scientific-based reasoning. It can be ignored, however. Which has tended to be the default position.

"The provision in question is styled as a 10-year moratorium on AI regulations by states. It looks like an AI lobbyist’s wish list. But it actually applies to any meaningful use of a computer in any context. The enforcement of any state civil law regarding the use of a computer will be in jeopardy."

If your business cannot prosper without breaking the law, then it is not a business. It is organized crime. Like those dependent on slavery, child labor, or wage theft, it should go out of business as soon as possible.

Un article de Next sur ma plainte contre Facebook avec le DSA next.ink/185186/seule...

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.

46% of 16 to 21 year olds say they would rather a world without internet, and 70% say they feel worse about themselves after using social media. It’s long past time governments stepped in to address the consequences of leaving the internet to the private sector.

So, Internet, we really do need to talk about Elon. How did we get to a place where a single billionaire with daddy issues could take over and control our global public square? I picked up my paintbrush as a means to answer that question.

Au côté de maires de gauche, nous alertons sur La Nuit du bien commun : un événement organisé dans nos villes par le milliardaire Pierre-Edouard #Stérin. Derrière la façade caritative, l'objectif est de véhiculer une idéologie réactionnaire et de faire gagner l’extrême-droite dans les urnes.

Cette page de propagande séditieuse à la Sputnik vous est offerte par Vincent Bolloré. #VincentBolloréIsAKremlinAsset

Une entreprise tous les 11 jours : Big Tech engloutit ses concurrents potentiels et établit une situation de monopole à allure rapide. Le Big Tech M&A tracker de @somoamsterdam.bsky.social permet de suivre cette croissance (pour le moment) sans frein.

Tech leaders were given every form of special treatment to make good on the promise of creating a "digital public square" for the democratic exchange of ideas, writes @maryannefranks.bsky.social. Not only has it failed to challenge the rise of authoritarianism in the US, it has accelerated it.

Pour la première fois, la « victimisation secondaire » est reconnue : « C’est vraiment important que les agresseurs sexuels qui embauchent de genre d’avocats réfléchissent au fait que ça pourrait leur coûter encore plus cher. »

Yes. This. Post.

🚨 Près de 18 mois après les recherches d'@amnesty.org sur les risques systémiques de #TikTok pour la santé mentale des jeunes, rien n'a vraiment changé ! #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek Voir les réponses de l'entreprise et la réaction d'@amnesty.org ici 👇 www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Lecture recommandée de ce rapport de @corporateeurope.bsky.social sur l'accès privilégié au lobby des GAFAM aux discussions sur le General-Purpose AI Code of Practice. Dans la continuation du Sommet pour l'IA à Paris, l'objectif est la dérégulation. Des associations tentent de limiter la casse.

"Le libre est l’infrastructure même d’Internet. Retirez cela aujourd’hui et Internet sera durablement cassé." Belle interview de Jérôme Hergueux sur Wikipedia. C'est son modèle libre et collaboratif qui donne à Wikipedia sa fiabilité et la rend si difficile à détruire.

About fucking time: on.ft.com/3RPd9MT #shame #shame #shame #GAZA #freePalestine Not a peep from the @europarl.europa.eu @ec.europa.eu

Pretty incredible news here as a jury awards a massive $167 million in punitive damages against spyware company NSO Group in a precedent-setting case. Amazing to see reverberations of impact from the Pegasus Project years after we published 🥳🎉🎊 www.courthousenews.com/meta-wins-16...

Pour le ministre de la Justice, s'opposer à la reconnaissance faciale relève d'une "paranoïa sur la technologie". Pour les organisations de défense des droits humains, s'opposer à la reconnaissance faciale relève de la protection de nos libertés fondamentales. x.com/GDarmanin/st...

Generative A.I. is inherently unreliable. It is not about to change. Businesses keep using them and keep being surprised by their bullshitting. The sooner they realise the problem and limit how much A.I. they use, the better for them and for society.