this site has deteriorated to the point of uselessness for me, largely, but when its owner uses it as a personal propaganda tool, we should still call it out.
I attended briefings, unclassified and classified, about TikTok. I reviewed articles and watched hearing videos about TikTok. Unless new information is presented to me, my position is as follows:
I will vote NO on any attempts to ban TikTok from Americans who choose to use it.
meticulously documents how an algorithm intended to reduce poverty in Jordan 🇯🇴 excludes people even as they go hungry, struggle to pay rent, and take on crippling debt.
1/ Many people in Jordan are not getting financial support because their hardships fall outside an algorithm's faulty model of poverty.
A new @hrw report examines the pitfalls of algorithms financed by the #WorldBank to deliver social assistance:
https://hrw.org/news/2023/06/13/world-bank/jordan-poverty-targeting-algorithms-harm-rights…
The #IPIWoCo opening Town Hall on Thursday features some of the big thinkers about what happens next.
The ChatGPT launch makes clear: #AI is here. What will this mean for our societies & the way we do journalism?
Verified faux Bloomberg account sends literal fake news, then gold check Russian news agency amplifies. Seems the stock market briefly dipped.
More will learn to disregard Twitter as news source. All because Musk seems to have believed psychobabble about legacy blue check folks.
This morning blue check accounts accounts claimed large explosions at the Pentagon.
... then the White House.
Russian state media amplified the faked Pentagon image from their gold check account.
The images look AI generated, as folks identified. 1/
NSO Group says it "opened an investigation into cyberattacks on human rights defenders in Mexico after recent reports" by the @nytimes, but worth noting @citizenlab reported on the targeting of Mexican journalists as early as 2016. https://nytimes.com/2023/05/22/world/americas/mexico-spying-pegasus-israel.html?unlocked_article_code=XMef5339H_mclFftgKlrhQUh8ek34QHSxtv4SmhtAEF8vEPHd1NBkUmIQmSYrXvleh5hfaB7K0R8PpxUJm1oDJzfjIBElqWFKmNo0IlDg8mBVbRuGMbYEoj0bGPdiiZZhhOOt_Q0KMf0AP80h7IvOhLktB3Biq9fPR6i-tBkpA85TlvrlCkGc7b7Mcw9B6TaeyZCSbRQ-6SihVJC8_2EAXZK4xxW5-D8uVcj9oKNvC3-Ug3qRZGIdelTGGi8WUf-2zeC2ZuFCC0Uck4zuis2DIQcL3ql8KIrTw0joz5RyUz7lt7ZaRP9ARyIm_9qNIzNFWWi_PNKlJVMk096lMEjVT3qAJSrev2BuQ5oMoc&smid=url-share…
but what if - stay with me - we cannot rely on their say-so? and what if #Pegasus, with its total access to one's digital device, is itself inherently abusive, not subject to verifiable constraints? then all this NSO-says is not only self-serving but basically beside the point.
trump's USAGM like musk's Twitter. Federal report "depict[s] Pack's brief tenure as an ideologically driven rampage through a government agency to try to force its newsrooms and workforce to show fealty to the White House."
trump's USAGM like musk's Twitter. Federal report "depict[s] Pack's brief tenure as an ideologically driven rampage through a government agency to try to force its newsrooms and workforce to show fealty to the White House."
So I’ve been away for a while, but finally got my head around major decision from Europe’s top court last month involving @Facebook, @maxschrems & $$ billions in data sent from EU to US.
Stay with me here, this gets weird, real quick.
<<cue thread>>
Elon Musk has an internet radicalization problem. He spends his time online responding to and interacting with white supremacist talking points and amplifying their messages.
This has been happening out in the open for months. It's time to start covering him as such.
wrote a shoddy Washington Post column using as a foil the headline of my piece yesterday assessing how the Durham inquiry fell flat after years of political hype. (He didn’t engage with its substance, of course.) A dissection follows. /1
"The election is now going into a runoff, and it’s a safe bet that the #government will continue to demand the sanctioning of accounts belonging to journalists, human rights activists, and others who oppose it" https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/turkey-elections-twitter-free-speech.html…#ethics#law#contentmoderation#socialmedia
Gonzalez and Taamneh were *extremely weak* cases for the plaintiffs. They do not demonstrate that platform immunities are limitless. They demonstrate that these cases fell within some pretty obvious, common sense limits.
Louisville is facing an eviction crisis as federal COVID money dries up. Advocates/renters here say the city should invest in immediate relief to help people stay in their homes — and avoid going back to the pre-pandemic status quo. For
The emphasis on supporting #Ukraine is both right and necessary, it is also crucial that it does not translate, including inadvertently, into a loss of focus on ensuring respect for human rights in all our
At Reykjavik #CouncilOfEuropeSummit, I stressed the need to pursue justice and accountability for the violations committed in the context of Russia’s war against #Ukraine and to address #humanrights backsliding and the erosion of democracy and the rule of law in member states.
I've read hundreds of pages of his diaries, looked at the hate symbols illustrations he drew, looked at the lists & links he posted to social media, and I can say that the evidence for his white supremacist beliefs is overwhelming.
Elon Musk has no expertise in extremism.
Musk doubles down on his claims that there's no evidence the Allen, Texas mall shooter had white supremacist beliefs, and that @bellingcat "does psy-ops" professionally.
I am seeking a comment in response to a lawsuit filed in CA today against Twitter by the family of an imprisoned Saudi dissident, Abdulrahman Al-Sadhan, whose identity was revealed by the Saudi spies who were employed by the company.
twitter under musk really brings it: grade school versions of free speech, quisling in the face of government demands, soros-baiting antisemitism, 2nd amendment extremism -- and that's just his account.
twitter under musk really brings it: grade school versions of free speech, quisling in the face of government demands, soros-baiting antisemitism, 2nd amendment extremism -- and that's just his account.
a simple, superficial and ultimately brief thread on this last day of my mandate as @UN special rapporteur on freedom of opinion & expression. pls read this first, the touchstone for the mandate #Article19#ICCPRhttps://treaties.un.org/doc/publication/unts/volume%20999/volume-999-i-14668-english.pdf…
The US Government's assessment of NSO Group bestowed upon it a rare twofer:
National security harm AND human rights harm.
Yet American lawyers & lobbyists keep taking handsome sums to help NSO keep the #spyware abuse train on the tracks.
NSO Group's #Pegasus is in the cross-hairs for clear reasons: it's a profoundly intrusive #spyware whose unaccountable customers, hidden from any transparency, use it lawlessly. the audacity of them proposing 'rules of responsible conduct' is something else. twitter.com/jsrailton/stat…
NSO Group's #Pegasus is in the cross-hairs for clear reasons: it's a profoundly intrusive #spyware whose unaccountable customers, hidden from any transparency, use it lawlessly. the audacity of them proposing 'rules of responsible conduct' is something else.
3/ As the fox, NSO says they are uniquely positioned to get all the hens together to craft regulation.
In case @ABAesq folks are wondering, these stakeholders:
- won't take NSO's meetings (most of congress)
- have sanctioned them (USG)
- have sued them (Industry, civil society)
NEW: notorious spyware firm #NSO Group, maker of #Pegasus has spent millions on foreign agents & lobbying operations in the US.
Their most recent target? The American Bar Association
I never thought reading a book about Rosa Parks would draw the wrath of the MAGA movement. But it did.
I wrote about my commitment to stand against book bans & fight for our children to think, learn & read what they want.
My op-ed in
There's a lot I'm trying to parse through, but this line stood out too: "will continue to object in court, as we have done with all requests." Have they been challenging all of Turkey's requests? It appears they've largely been granting them since October