We are talking about extremely harmful, violent & in many cases, illegal material shared on well-known platforms. THIS CAN STOP. We need gov'ts to regulate online platforms. Until it is legislated, tech will not prioritize the safety of survivors & children.

🧵New work from Laura Edelson, Damon McCoy & me Cybersecurity For Democracy w/ stark finding: "Illegal activity in Ads on Meta Apps linking to Telegram." A simple search found MORE than 1/2 the Telegram-linked ads violated policies, including illegal activity. But there's a simple fix! 1/4

Free Afghan Women’s 🇦🇫 Famous female singer, Sonita Alizadeh, has singing for the freedom of and basic rights of Afghan women’s and girls they banned from education, freedom, and from speaking in public in Afghanistan.

Appalling decision. Facebook and Instagram are awash with harmful content, which will now get baked in to Meta’s AI products. History repeats and replicates, seemingly with regulatory consent

Meta is pleased to announce that they are done pretending, and are going to unapologetically exploit you even further, with thanks to your governments’ inaction.

I wrote a book chapter on the cynical appropriation of social justice rhetoric by the tech sector, who claim that regulation is to the detriment of a myriad of vulnerable communities - sex workers, LGBTIQ people, child abuse victims. academia.edu/resource/work/…

Great thread here on the Taliban/AFG - Gretchen Peters knows👇🏼

How ironic that Meta decides to implement basic safeguards during a European Commission inquiry and a markup of the #kidsonlinesafetyact in the House. We see your BS Mark Zuckerberg Nick Clegg!! nytimes.com/2024/09/17/tec…

Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, acknowledges that putting safety first will be bad for business, effectively admitting that Meta put profits over child safety for years. Accountable Tech Tech Policy Press Real Facebook Oversight Board Michael Salter wsj.com/tech/personal-…

Focused deterrence works. David M. Kennedy