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...
A London bus stop that says "who the fuck would want to use social media with a built in child abuse tool"?
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
C'est effrayant. Qu'est-ce qui peut être fait pour éviter que Bolloré ne rachète et détruise tout ?
Protestors in Brussels call for the EU to Break Up Google
👀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...
Face aux explications pointues et sourcées de @monsieurphi.bsky.social, François Sorel a choisi son camp : celui du copinage, de l’argument d’autorité, de l’entre-soi complaisant. Ce n’est même pas du journalisme cette séquence. Elle est révélatrice d’un mal profond touchant les médias audiovisuels.
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.
Yikes
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.
A crowd at Budapest Pride parade 2015 is shown with pixelated faces, holding rainbow flags and umbrellas. A large surveillance camera graphic hovers over the scene, with a white targeting frame around a person in the crowd. Text in the center reads: '#PrideWithPrid: Ban biometric identification in public places!' followed by the link: 'algorithmwatch.org/sign'.
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
