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How Algorithms Make Everything the Same - Substack Live on 9th May
Join us for a Substack Live with author of Filterworld @KyleChayka, founder of Metalabel @ystrickler and Orwell-prize winning journalist @CaroleCadwalladr.
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Pension Funds Have Had It With Tesla’s Board And Musk
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A federal spending bill would impose a 10-year ban on all state and local AI regulation in the US
Oppose this now!
@DesignItForUs @accountabletech
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📑 New report 📑
Our new report - Escalate: Social Media War During the India–Pakistan Conflict, explores how platforms like Facebook and X (formerly Twitter) failed to curb the spread of hate speech and disinformation during the recent conflict.
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🚨 21 May 1 PM EST/6 PM BST/10 AM PST on Substack Live
In this “fireside chat”, we’ll talk with scholar, writer and activist Shoshana Zuboff about surveillance capitalism and how she sees the “fight for a human future” today.
Prepare your questions!
dispatch.the-citizens.com/tr…
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Google and Meta, the owner of Facebook, accounted for at least half of the £43bn spent on advertising in the UK last year, according to new research thetimes.com/uk/technology-u…
🚨WED 30th April, 9 AM PST / 12 PM EST / 5 PM BST
Join @carolecadwalla @YaelEisenstat @Moonalice @zamaan_qureshi @JGo4Justice and more for 100 Days of the Broligarchy - an urgent conversation
Subscribe to get the zoom link
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🚨 100 Days of the Broligarchy
In this emergency session of the Big Tech Oversight Board, we look at Trump’s first 100 days through the lens of Big Tech - the good, the bad and the Broligarchy.
Join us Wed 30th April, 9AM PST/12pm EST/ 5PM BST - on ZOOM
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The full session is available here
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I think the Theo Von / Zuckerberg podcast episode is best summarized in the first 20 seconds…
Meta’s AI bots are empowered to engage in “romantic role-play.” The chats can turn explicit, even when the users are children. wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-chat… via @WSJ
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🚨 100 Days of the Broligarchy
In this emergency session of the Big Tech Oversight Board, we look at Trump’s first 100 days through the lens of Big Tech - the good, the bad and the Broligarchy.
Join us Wed 30th April, 9AM PST/12pm EST/ 5PM BST - on ZOOM
citizensreunited.substack.co…
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I never would have read *Careless People*, Sarah Wynn-Williams's tell-all memoir about her years running global policy for Facebook, but then Meta's lawyer tried to get the book suppressed and secured an injunction to prevent her from promoting it:
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ALT The Crown Books cover for Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People.'
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Statement below on the second landmark decision v Google in favor of the United States of America. On a personal note, I'm thrilled. This has been a decade in the making, and I believe history will prove it cost publishers globally more billions than one can count.
When you think you are above the law
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Seriously. Seriously. Meta/Facebook/Instagram wrote this in a press release today,
“It’s absurd that the FTC is trying to break up a great American company.” This is a company competing for worst reputation among the top 100 brands (Axios Harris 100).
The landmark antitrust case against Meta resumes in Washington today.
The US competition and consumer watchdog alleges that Meta, which already owned Facebook, bought Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 to eliminate competition, effectively giving itself a monopoly.
Landmark antitrust trial could force Zuckerberg to sell Instagram bbc.in/4jaZQ5m
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Six years ago, I walked into the lair of the tech gods - TED - to warn them democracy may not survive technology.
In fact, I was the one who almost didn’t survive.
This year I returned & called them data rapists.
Complicit in a coup.
Collaborators.
What is emerging from Meta whistleblowers is just shocking.
Pretty stunning testimony here from Sarah Wynn-Williams, the latest Meta whistleblower to come forward, to Sen. @MarshaBlackburn:
"Facebook was targeting 13-17-year-olds. It could identify when they were feeling worthless, or helpless... and share it with advertisers."
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🚨 Our latest Dispatch: Musk and Meta, it all comes tumbling down.
Highlights: @TanyaOCarroll's win over Meta, @MarietjeSchaake's pivotal The Tech Coup, and our weekly call to action.
dispatch.the-citizens.com/yo…
