Mathias Vermeulen

‘Massive Legal Siege’ Against Social Media Companies Looms Thousands of plaintiffs’ complaints, millions of pages of internal documents and transcripts of countless hours of depositions are about to land in US courtrooms, threatening the future of the biggest...

The biggest source for any DSA investigation into addictive design features might not be platforms' risk assessments, but the more than 6 million documents that are part of the pretrial discovery process in the US www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’ Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

NIEUWS: AIVD en MIVD delen minder informatie met hun Amerikaanse partners. Dat zeggen de hoofden van de Nederlandse diensten in de Volkskrant. Peter Reesink (MIVD): ‘Dat we soms ook dingen niet meer vertellen, dat is waar.’ 1/5

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The UK government must tackle resistance from those who want to return to a “mythical past” as it develops its plans for AI-led economic growth, the new UK junior minister for artificial intelligence said www.mlex.com/mlex/artific...

They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”

After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”

And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.

‘Enormous fear’: Trump’s threats against George Soros chill US non-profits Civil society groups funded by billionaire’s charitable foundation feel vulnerable to administration’s attacks

Data compiled by The Chronicle of Philanthropy suggests at least 22,000 jobs were lost in the sector in the first six months of the year on.ft.com/4nBgdu4

A/80/341: Threats to freedom of expression online in turbulent times In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression focuses on a paradigm shift in the governance of social media platforms ...

Strong report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Protection of Freedom of Expression on "the paradigm shift" in the governance of social media platforms that has "alarming consequences for freedom of expression online". www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

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Geen spreekverbod voor Mekic in zaak tegen X Het gerechtshof Amsterdam heeft het verzoek van X (het voormalige Twitter) om een spreekverbod op te leggen aan Danny Mekic afgewezen. Jurist Mekic is al geruime tijd in een strijd verwikkeld met het ...

More in Dutch here - www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/....

X must hand over a full, unredacted version of Mekic’s data from Guano Notes to the Court of Appeal. The court may use this information in the case — but Mekic himself won’t receive the data yet. (6/6)

Ahead of the appeal, X demanded that Mekic be barred from speaking publicly about the case, arguing this could reveal more about how Guano Notes works. The Court of Appeal has now ruled that Mekic is free to speak. (5/6)

X gave Mekic only limited access. Mekic sued — and won. The Amsterdam court ruled now, under penalty of a fine, that X must provide full access. X appealed that decision. The appeal hearing is set for 11 December. (4/6)

The dispute began when X made Mekic’s posts less visible after he retweeted a Dutch NOS news article containing the word “child pornography.” Mekic demanded access to his personal data and to how it was processed — which led to his account being hidden. (3/6)

The Amsterdam Court of Appeal has rejected X’s request to impose a gag order on jurist Danny Mekic. Mekic has long been in a legal battle with the company, seeking access to the personal data X holds about him and how it’s been used.(2/6)

Interesting development in the X vs. Mekic case in the Netherlands, which partly deals with "Guano Notes" - X’s internal system that tracks users’ reputation scores and labels them. Those scores can determine whether posts are blocked or accounts are hidden. Very little is know about the system(1/6)

OpenAI’s computing deals top $1tn Partners including Nvidia, AMD and Oracle have signed up to Sam Altman’s huge bet on the future of artificial intelligence

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AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? The rise of ChatGPT and its rivals is undermining the economic bargain of the internet

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The speech wars come for Wikipedia

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European officials fear Trump is preparing to blame them for Ukraine failure Poland’s Tusk warns of ‘reduced US involvement and a shift of responsibility’

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Think of the waste this involves

I can't believe this is real. Literally Thiel is saying the antichrist is anyone who wants to regulate technology.

Very happy to announce brilliant new paper on AI by the wonderful @atoosakz.bsky.social , Phillip Hacker, and er, me, on systemic risk and how it is confusingly differently interpreted through the EU AIA, the DSA and its origin, financial regulation.

Paper at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17878

EU to block Big Tech from new financial data sharing system Germany argues groups such as Apple and Meta are excluded to protect Europe’s ‘digital sovereignty’

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This white paper from @noupside.bsky.social and @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social is an extremely helpful explanation of how the media environment has irrevocably shifted away from one in which institutions could wield influence simply by speaking authoritatively.

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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

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In Charlie Kirk’s name: Trump officials signal move to limit free speech White House shifts from defending dissent to vowing crackdown on ‘hateful’ rhetoric in wake of killing

on.ft.com/3K7NYV4 In Charlie Kirk’s name: Trump officials signal move to limit free speech

"When trolls demand debates, they’re not interested in having their minds changed or genuinely testing their ideas. They want one of two outcomes: either you decline and they get to claim victory by default, or you accept and they get to use your credibility to legitimize their nonsense..."

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US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK f... Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage ...

My colleague @thejohnsimpson.bsky.social has done a terrific deep dive into the financial links between US tech billionaires and Tommy Robinson

Well worth a read

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Something Is Very Wrong Online The cycle of violence will continue as long as the medium doesn’t change.

“But it is hard not to notice that, in the aggregate, something poisonous is in the architecture of its platforms and the way that our technologies demand not just our attention, but our most heightened emotions.”
@cwarzel.bsky.social wrote in his piece here:
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EU Won’t Shy Away From Tough Antitrust Enforcement, Competition Chief Says The European Union is ready to hand hefty fines to companies that breach antitrust rules despite risks of raising tensions with the U.S. at a delicate time for trade, the bloc’s top competition enforc...

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