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Meet the Greta Thunberg of AI

Excited to announce

’s open letter urging youth-informed action to reshape the future of AI, supported by 9 other youth orgs. ... And an incredible profile in

@politico

discussing my work organizing this call to action! :)

politico.com

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Mike Swift

@Swiftstories

It's a little surprising

@Meta

says it was so blindsided by

allegation it violated the 2020 consent decree, as

@mlexclusive

scooped back in 2021 that the independent assessor found significant “gaps and weaknesses" in

@Facebook

compliance. mlexmarketinsight.com/news/insight/f

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Mike Swift

@Swiftstories

Breaking: @meta is facing an unprecedented penalty from the @FTC for allegedly violating a #privacy consent order for the 2nd time, the last time being the 2020 - under the proposed penalty the former #Facebook would be barred from making profits from teens or kids under 18.

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new

order would, among other things, require

@meta

to: – stop monetizing youth data altogether – halt all product launches until they're formally assessed to be in compliance w/ the privacy order – obtain users' affirmative consent for any future use of facial recognition

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has repeatedly violated terms of its 2020 privacy order; the

's new proposal is... 👀

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Wow. washingtonpost.com/technology/202

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Lina Khan

@linakhanFTC

Although AI tools are novel, they are not exempt from existing rules. In

@nytimes

I explain how

Opinion | Lina Khan: We Must Regulate A.I. Here’s How.

will pursue our mandate to promote fair competition and prevent unfair or deceptive practices in this new market.

nytimes.com

Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, on the agency’s oversight of the A.I. revolution.

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Tech Transparency Project

@TTP_updates

techtransparencyproject.org

NEW: Tech companies want to kill children’s online safety laws – and they’re using trade groups to do their dirty work. TTP’s latest report tracks relevant bills and examines Big Tech's lobbying and litigation strategy.

TTP - Big Tech’s Scramble to Stop Child Safety Laws

Tech giants like Google, Amazon, and TikTok say they’re committed to protecting kids. But their trade groups are aggressively fighting online child safety measures across the country.

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in a 🔥 new op-ed on AI,

@linakhanFTC

warns the FTC will not tolerate “business models or practices involving the mass exploitation of their users.” nytimes.com/2023/05/03/opi

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Design It For Us

@DesignItForUs

Meet the Greta Thunberg of AI

"Meet the Greta Thunberg of AI" Meet our Core Team Member

@sneharevanur

who's building a global, youth-powered movement for human-centered artificial intelligence with

@encodejustice

.

politico.com

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NEWS on big

hires/plans via

👀 "The prominent advocacy group sees this as a crucial moment to [push for] meaningful laws at the federal & state levels, as well as make Big Tech accountability a kitchen table issue among voters.” axios.com/pro/tech-polic

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Elizabeth M. Renieris

@hackylawyER

"It’s perhaps not the best time for firms building or deploying #AI to remove or fire personnel devoted to ethics and responsibility for AI and engineering. If the FTC comes calling ... these reductions might not be a good look." More 🔥🔥🔥 from the

The Luring Test: AI and the engineering of consumer trust

ftc.gov

In the 2014 movie Ex Machina, a robot manipulates someone into freeing it from its confines, resulting in the person being confined instead.

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Corey Ciorciari

@CoreyCiorciari

This has long been the prize of the radical right: To gut federal regulation on everything from the environment to health care to guns to voting to consumer protection to banks in one swoop. It’s all on the line now.

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Amy Howe

@AHoweBlogger

#SCOTUS grants review in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, in which it has been asked to consider overruling its 1984 decision in Chevron v. Natl Resources Defense Council, on deference to administrative agencies. Justice Jackson is recused from the case.

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they didn't "take a $523M loss." they paid severance for the mass firings, announced a $5.7 BILLION Q1 profit + $9.2B stock buyback, & their valuation has tripled in 6 months.

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Adam Kovacevich

@adamkovac

Apr 28

Meta is laying off 21k people and took a $523M loss in Q1 as a result of its TikTok-driven headwinds. Meanwhile the DC Meta Derangement Complex is really trying to make 2018 and Cambridge Analytica panic happen again. twitter.com/zamaan_qureshi…

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Column: Elon Musk broke what made Twitter great. It's going to cost him — and us

Brian Merchant

@bcmerchant

Apr 27

The story not getting told enough in the ongoing trainwrecking of Twitter is how, despite the fact that it was always a problematic platform, genuine public goods became bound up in its infrastructure—and more than anything, that's what Elon is destroying

latimes.com

It's tempting to write off Elon Musk's bad business decisions, such as trying to charge Twitter users for blue checks. But his naked cash grab is part of a sea change we should all take seriously.

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A Brief History of Elon Musk Saying One Thing & Doing Another at Twitter

time.com

A Brief History of Elon Musk Saying One Thing and Doing Another at Twitter

A year into his ownership of Twitter, here are some of the best examples of Elon Musk saying one thing and then doing another at the company

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sentences of 51 & 36 months for a scheme that's *extremely similar* to the post-election fundraising scam for which Trump is being investigated: washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04

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US Attorney SDNY

@SDNYnews

Apr 26

Two sentenced to prison for ‘We Build The Wall’ online fundraising fraud scheme justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/t

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the Big Tech / AI self-regulation is going well.

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important joint statement from

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making clear AI is not exempt from existing non-discrimination laws & enforcement authority. ftc.gov/system/files/f

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Law firm head bought Gorsuch-owned property

Apr 25

Justice Gorsuch was trying to sell a 40-acre property for 2 years. 9 days after his confirmation, he sold it & didn't disclose the buyer –– the CEO of a law firm that's since had 22 cases with business before SCOTUS.

politico.com

The Supreme Court justice did not report the identity of the purchaser, whose firm has had numerous cases before the court.

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How Elon Musk transformed Twitter's blue check from status symbol into a badge of shame | CNN...

Brian Fung

@b_fung

Apr 24

Musk's dilemma is that if none of the celebs who populate his platform with content are verified, not only will he have an impersonation problem, none of their stuff will show up on the default algorithmic feed. No content ➡ no engagement ➡ no revenue.

cnn.com

Days after Elon Musk's Twitter purged blue check marks from VIP users and prominent organizations, the checks reappeared on the accounts of a number of high-profile figures, many of whom promptly...

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head of Kremlin propaganda machine, RT: “Twitter de-labeled me and all of our channels as ‘public funded media’. Now you can even find me in the search. Brotherly, Elon, from the heart.”

washingtonpost.com

Twitter removes labels from state-controlled media, helping propaganda

The move came the same week that Russia and China were revealed to have been operating armies of fake social media profiles to sway U.S. debate.

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rolled out new policies *this week* on limiting the reach of violative tweets, & increasing transparency. blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/p then they quietly removed labels from accounts of state media & officials, & they're boosting their literal calls for genocide.

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Elon has fully unshackled CCP & Kremlin propaganda. now Dmitry Medvedev is getting 7,000 RTs calling for genocide. npr.org/2023/04/21/117

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The Utah and Arkansas Social Media Bans Won’t Protect Us

Apr 19

Listen to the young people: "We need to establish standards that make platforms safer, not keep us off of them."

@emmalembke

and

@zamaan_qureshi

of

@designitforus

call out recent social media laws in Utah and Arkansas:

gizmodo.com

Recently passed laws in Utah and Arkansas laws aren’t about tech accountability or children’s safety, write Emma Lembke and Zamaan Qureshi, both age 20.

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anyways, instead of watching the

infomercial that aired in primetime, read this great piece

@byJuliaLove

&

@daveyalba

!

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Apr 19

the recent @60Minutes piece on @Google's Bard was SO bad. they cast the shoddy chatbot as a godlike gift to humanity, got basic facts about AI wrong, interviewed *only* @Google execs, & failed to push them on the litany of harms. bloomberg.com/news/features/

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the recent

piece on

's Bard was SO bad. they cast the shoddy chatbot as a godlike gift to humanity, got basic facts about AI wrong, interviewed *only*

execs, & failed to push them on the litany of harms. bloomberg.com/news/features/

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Zach Praiss

@ZachPraiss

Apr 18

It took me like 10 takes to record this video. But all worth it to make clear how Google is aiding abortion prosecutors.

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Apr 17

Google is endangering abortion-seekers. Add your name to demand Google stop collecting location data and aiding abortion prosecutors: secure.everyaction.com/lpA_5ZWQdEuLVo

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GLAAD RESPONDS TO TWITTER’S ROLL-BACK OF LONG-STANDING LGBTQ HATE

NEW:

has quietly removed a section of its hateful conduct policy that aimed to protect transgender people from targeted misgendering and deadnaming.

glaad.org

Contact: press@glaad.org Earlier this Month, Twitter Covertly Removed Section of Hateful Conduct Policy Protecting Transgender People from Targeted Misgendering and Deadnaming GLAAD: “Twitter’s

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wait Lily, do you mean to tell me that properly funding the IRS was *not* a ploy to create a new, politicized army of agents to harass everyday Americans!? it was just to streamline the IRS & stop ultra-wealthy tax cheats from bilking the rest of us??

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Lily Adams

@adamslily

Apr 18

Reuters >> IRS clears massive backlog of unprocessed paper tax returns reuters.com/world/us/us-ir

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after 'Twitter Files' authors *repeatedly* smeared Renee w/ false attacks in hearings & media hits,

@Twitter

just plagiarized her seminal work on speech vs. reach & embraced it as their core "enforcement philosophy" 🙃

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Renee DiResta

@noUpside

Apr 17

Always interesting to see where your work winds up… (cc @aza)

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spoke to

for this important piece on the real-world harms driven by Twitter's replatforming of extremists & serial peddlers of harmful disinfo: france24.com/en/live-news/2

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Focus groups: Pennsylvania swing voters detest MAGA and abortion overreach

Alexi McCammond

@alexi

Apr 14

🚨 Another abortion warning sign for the GOP: Some pro-life PA voters who previously supported Trump are firmly against banning mifepristone — and view it as the latest example of GOP extremism and overreach.

@axios

axios.com

Many feel the policies and proposals are going too far, even when they personally disagree with the issue.

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this is the man

has vowed to pardon before he's even been sentenced. the man posted on FB he might "have to kill a few" protestors, ran a red light & drove into a crowd, then shot a veteran 5 times.

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Lauren McGaughy

@lmcgaughy

Apr 13

'I am a racist:' Texas man convicted of murdering BLM protester’s social media posts reveal racist comments, anti-protester views statesman.com/story/news/loc via @statesman

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received PPP loans which were forgiven. I assume their labels are on the way?

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Elon Musk

@elonmusk

Apr 13

NPR literally says Federal funding is *essential* on their website right now at npr.org/about-npr/1786 What have you got against the truth @NPR?

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@DesignItForUs

Zamaan Qureshi and Emma Lembke

NEW: Our statement on the signing of the misguided Arkansas social media law. designitforus.org/press/design-i

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it's literally not taken down at all, Elmo is just a pathological liar. they clearly explain how federal funding supports the broader public interest media ecosystem: npr.org/about-npr/1786

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Elon Musk

@elonmusk

NPR literally said “Federal funding is essential to public radio” on their own website (now taken down). What hypocrites!

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Readers added context they thought people might want to know

NPR still mentions Federal Funding on their website. npr.org/about-npr/1786…

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July 2022: Google says it will delete location data when users visit abortion clinics. March 2023: Google collects and retains the Location History and location search queries for our quick visit to an abortion clinic with

@alivitali

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contradicting the policy they've touted since July,

CONTINUES to track & retain abortion-related location data –– and we have receipts.

@nicolelgill

: “Google went out of its way to promise users protection in a post-Roe America. They lied." 🔥 accountabletech.org/media/breaking

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just spitballing here, but maybe he should've... not done so many crimes?

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Alayna Treene

@alaynatreene

Apr 11

Jordan also said he's "really concerned” Trump will be indicted in Georgia or that the Special Counsel appointed by DOJ will bring charges against him as well. "I think it's so wrong," he said

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🚨 WATCH: our experiment with

@NBCNews

reveals