Today I’m attending the 4D Conference in Barcelona—feels nice to join a digital rights event without taking a flight for a change. This morning starts strong with @rashaar.bsky.social presenting on the state of affairs of EU regulation and the road ahead to hold Big Tech accountable.

Today Simona Levi @xnet-x.net interviews @rashaar.bsky.social about surveillance technology sold by Israel: 🎙️ "Europe talks about ethics while buying technology for control and repression tested in contexts of systemic violence."

Simona Levi @xnet-x.net entrevista a @rashaar.bsky.social en @ctxt.es sobre tecnología de vigilancia que vende Israel probada en combate sobre población palestina. "Estas herramientas asignan puntuaciones a individuos según su supuesta probabilidad de pertenecer a grupos militantes" #Conferencia4D

$145 million won’t save Israel’s image. No amount of AI manipulation or influencer shilling or money can erase Israel’s genocide in Gaza and 76 years of apartheid. Israel is a state built on stolen land and slaughter. The world isn’t just waking up. It’s wide awake, and sickened.

⏳ Cuenta atrás para nuestra #Conferencia4D: La cita imprescindible sobre #DigitalizaciónDemocrática 🎙️ Conferencia inaugural a cargo de @rashaar.bsky.social: activista palestina, estratega en tecnología, DDHH y justicia social. 📍 28/10 | BCN 🎟️ Gratis, con inscripción: 4d.cat/es/conferenc...

Belgian issued ID cards in Rwanda 1922-62: ID'd cattle herding Tutsis for statistical monitoring of sleeping sickness (transmitted from cattle to herders The ID cards were used by the hutus during the genocides in Rwanda to identify the Tutsis for slaughter 👇 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan...

This is HUGE. @microsoft.com has terminated the Israeli military’s access to tech it used to surveil millions of Palestinian phone calls in Gaza/West Bank. @awscloud.bsky.social, Google: it’s high time you did the same. Well done @theguardian.com & +972 Mag www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Al Jazeera reporting the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah in Egypt.

A genocidal campaign by the Israeli regime, enabled by world powers. A grotesque unraveling of humanity, a bloodstain history will never wash clean.

Do you know how it feels to witness your people being bombed, shot, starved and abused viciously and relentlessly for the past 21 months? To wake up and fall asleep to images of lifeless, bloodied babies, starving infants and the corpses of men and women strewn on the ground? 🧵

🧵Out today: A large majority of people in France, Germany and Spain back the EU to enforce the law on Big Tech - even if it risks relations with Trump. New YouGov poll we commissioned @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social @wemoveeurope.bsky.social. peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...

🚨 NEW POLL: roughly TWICE as many people in France, Germany & Spain want the EU to break up Big Tech giants, as those who don't. @ec.europa.eu will soon decide whether to dismantle Google's toxic adtech monopoly. Will it listen to EU citizens and #BreakUpBigTech? peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...

Leading legal experts and scholars have today written to FIFA’s Governance Audit and Compliance Committee (GAAC), in relation to the committee’s examination of a complaint relating to the holding of matches in Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. fairsq.org/letter-fifa-...

🚨 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.

FIFA’s ongoing failure to enforce sanctions against the Israeli Football Association (IFA) despite long-standing and irrefutable evidence that the IFA is in violation of FIFA Statutes is further evidence of the organisation’s ad hoc and selective enforcement of its rules. fairsq.org/fifa-continu...

Woah, did the UK, Canada and France just threaten sanctions on #Israel? #Gaza www.gov.uk/government/n...

Our new report now out finds serious shortcomings in the way in which Saudi Arabia investigates and verifies migrant worker deaths. fairsq.org/saudi-arabia...

FairSquare co director @lynchj.bsky.social in conversation with the BBC Today programme on our prediction of a surge in unexplained deaths in Saudi Arabia.

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...

🚨 Funding opportunity! The Spyware Accountability Initiative supports civil society organisations fighting spyware abuse, through regulation, litigation, research and investigation, and other means. Learn more and apply by 13 June at stopspyware.fund/apply #SpywareAccountability #Funding

“The colonization of Palestine is not an anomaly in the liberal global order but its most glaring indictment. It exposes the hypocrisy of an international system that decries colonialism while institutionalizing and legitimizing it.” Must read: mondoweiss.net/2025/04/pale...

Tottenham UK More ad activism.

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...

Join us for a convo about the future of social media – how open protocols & algorithmic pluralism can change things for the better! 🤓💪 Ft. @marietjeschaake.bsky.social @emilyliu.me @robin.berjon.com @sherifea.com Register: smokesignal.events/did:plc:haqw... Stream: streamyard.com/watch/uhdM7f...

This utterly broke me today. 18,000 children (and counting) killed by #Israel. The pain is unfathomable. #Gaza

Mahmoud Khalil is being held in a prison without being accused of a crime for being “antisemitic” by criticizing Netanyahu and Israel’s actions against Palestinian civilians while Trump strips Chuck Schumer of his Jewish identity using “Palestinian” as a slur. 1/3 www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...

It is entirely possible for Europe to speak in one, clear voice to (rightfully) defend Zelensky. But when #Israel blatantly violates the ceasefire AGAIN & prevents any humanitarian aid from entering the devastated #Gaza Strip - no solidarity, no messages of support, no ‘we’re with you’. Deplorable.

We haven't been very active on here because our social media manager has been writing the 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲. @shivanidave.co.uk (that's me!) looks at Big Tech's relationship with LGBTQ+ people before and after the updated Meta Community Standards.

Meta is reportedly blocking #Democrat and #DNC on Instagram. When searching for these hashtags, some users are seeing a message that reads "We have hidden these results". But these users say they are still able to see posts when searching for #Republican or #GOP.

Even in their death and unimaginable suffering Palestinians are treated as subhuman and with utter contempt. Even as Israel has killed 16% of Gaza’s population, it is Israelis who experienced a massacre, whose lives were brutalised. Palestinians simply lost their lives. I despair. #Palestine #Israel

In 467 days Israel killed 16% of Gaza's population. Despite the joy and relief - partic of Palestinians - none of us will ever be the same again. Nor should we be. Nothing will ever be the same. Nor should it be. We won’t stop fighting until Zionism is dismantled & #Palestine is free. 🇵🇸🤞🏼 #Ceasefire

My heart is full. The relief, the joy. We’ll never know the unbelievable suffering Palestinians have experienced. Tragically, this ceasefire could been agreed last year if Biden & Netanyahu wanted. So many lives lost & forever destroyed needlessly. The resistance continues until Palestine is free 🇵🇸

🌎 It’s time to reclaim social media. Billionaires & venture capital shouldn’t control our digital lives. #FreeOurFeeds is raising $4M to build a public-interest alternative. Chip in today to make it happen freeourfeeds.com

Far from "censorship", in their 2024 EU DSA Systemic Risk Assessment and Mitigation Report, Meta proudly trumpets their work with independent fact-checkers, writing it "forms the basis to prevent the spread of large scale misinformation and disinformation" transparency.meta.com/sr/dsa-sra_r...

Of course he does. | Mark Zuckerberg seeks ‘active role’ in Trump tech policy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Signal is famous for knowing as little about its users as possible. The app isn’t hoarding metadata, tracking you, or showing you ads. President @meredithmeredith.bsky.social sees a shift underway as the monoliths of big tech lose popularity and the old economics of Silicon Valley become brittle.

👀🔎 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: 🧵

The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered Google to sell Chrome. The tech giant has a dominance in the market when it comes to search engines and the judge says it has an illegal monopoly. Chrome is the most used browser in the world. #pvbt #google #chrome #technews

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has acknowledged criticism of the EU’s “double standards” in its inconsistent stance on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, saying this notion spread widely in the countries of the Global South. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/5kakj8

Will the #EU continue to be tough on #BigTech regulation, or will they be too scared of provoking #Trump? And will the next 4yrs be as bad as it looks for tech justice? @mccoolingtons.bsky.social spoke to some of our members across Europe to get their takes: blog.peoplevsbig.tech/trump-x-euro...

WANTED: ❌Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. ❌Israel’s former defence minister, Yoav Gallant. ❌Al-Qassam Brigades commander, Mohamed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri.

DuckDuckGo is asking the European Commission to open three DMA non-compliance investigations into Google: spreadprivacy.com/investigate-.... It's hard to disagree with the points they're making.

“Don’t bother. We’re waiting to die.” The world has failed the Palestinian people. Keir Starmer and David Lammy included. Thank you for trying @rohantalbot.bsky.social

Big shout out to Bluesky from @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social!

Is Elon Musk accidentally helping us break up Big Tech? 🤯 Find out in our newsletter by @mc00.bsky.social + @mccoolingtons.bsky.social, ft. tech decentralisation pro @robin.berjon.com. Subscribe to stay up to date on Big Tech’s dirty tricks + how to fight them! blog.peoplevsbig.tech/the-people-v...

Here's a quick roundup from Rasha Abdul-Rahim of what we’ve been reading to get to grips with what the #Trump victory means for our digital rights. We promise to keep campaigning, reporting + informing you of Big Tech #Algorithms' latest dirty tricks 📢🧐👾 blog.peoplevsbig.tech/trump-tech/

Nice to see so many of you here on Bluesky! May the mass X-odus (see what I did there?) continue 🙌🏽 #X-odus

"With one million new accounts added since the U.S. elections, Bluesky has solidified itself as an option for people looking to change their social media service."

How can life go on as normal when Palestinians & Lebanese ppl are being annihilated? I cuddle my children, see dead children. My kids go to bed with full tummies in a warm, safe home - but millions are starving, dodging bombs & bullets & tanks. I drink something & imagine people dying of thirst.