Xavier Brandao

I Figured Out How to Limit Google's AI Overviews. You're Welcome There's no official way to turn off Google's AI-generated search results completely, but these tricks can help you see them less often.

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...

Big Tech lobby budgets hit record levels | Corporate Europe Observatory New figures show that the digital industry as a whole is now spending €151 million a year on lobbying the EU, a major increase to what was already considerable firepower.

📢 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 👏👏👏

EU slaps Google with €2.95B fine despite Trump trade threat Brussels hammers U.S. search giant after internal Commission feud.

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.

YouTube video by Tech & Co Luc Julia face à Monsieur Phi - Tech&Co la quotidienne du 01/09/2025

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! 

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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.

Digital sovereignty can’t be bargained away The European Commission has tools, public support and a mandate to act on Big Tech. Trading that away for short-term calm would be a costly mistake.

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

Open letter: Recent spyware abuse cases require urgent EU action The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joined CDT Europe and 11 civil society and journalists organisations, all members of the Spyware ...

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

🚨 Today we're sending a loud message to the EU to stand up to the tech oligarchy and #BreakUpBigTech! 📣📣

We've delivered a petition from +115,000 people calling on @ec.europa.eu @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu to break up Google, ahead of its major ruling on Google's toxic online advertising monopoly.

ENQUÊTE. Écrans et enfants : quand la recherche publique flirte avec les intérêts privés La cellule investigation de Radio France a enquêté sur la stratégie des start-ups du numérique mais aussi des GAFAM pour faire rentrer les écrans à l’école.

Il y a d'inquiétants conflits d'intérêts et liens avec Big Tech chez des chercheurs français... www.franceinfo.fr/societe/educ...

Instagram suspended @eswa-network.bsky.social without warning or explanation, on the eve of Int'l Sex Workers’ Rights Day. This was unacceptable censorship of a human rights network. Even though the account has now been reinstated, it should never have been suspended in the first place.

When it comes to LLMs, this is the only question that matters. And it’s an issue that can’t be engineered away, because LLMs’ correlation-based epistemology is fundamentally incompatible with scientific-based reasoning.
It can be ignored, however. Which has tended to be the default position.

The Big Beautiful Bill Could Decimate Legal Accountability for Tech and Anything Tech Touches | TechPolicy.Press To understand how the so-called “AI moratorium” will destroy state laws and the internet, consider the literal meaning of its text, writes David Brody.

"The provision in question is styled as a 10-year moratorium on AI regulations by states. It looks like an AI lobbyist’s wish list. But it actually applies to any meaningful use of a computer in any context. The enforcement of any state civil law regarding the use of a computer will be in jeopardy."

If your business cannot prosper without breaking the law, then it is not a business. It is organized crime.

Like those dependent on slavery, child labor, or wage theft, it should go out of business as soon as possible.

Seulement 6,8 % de contenus haineux modérés : Xavier Brandao attaque Meta devant l’Arcom - Next En s’appuyant sur le Digital Services Act, Xavier Brandao a porté plainte contre Meta pour défaut de modération Constatant le très faible taux de modération de contenus haineux sur Facebook, le cofond...

Un article de Next sur ma plainte contre Facebook avec le DSA
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Commentaire haineux : "Ben ya les hommes ,les femmes et les trucs maintenant"

Commentaire haineux : "Encore un mohamed"

Commentaire haineux : "ils valent mieux que tous ces bonobos"

Commentaire haineux : "un commentaire d'africain n'a aucune valeur"

Il s’agit de commentaires antisémites, islamophobes, racistes, sexistes, transphobes… qui sont donc parfaitement acceptables pour Facebook.

En voici quelques exemples (trigger warning, ces commentaires peuvent être choquants).

Facebook peut mettre des jours à réagir. Parfois, le refus arrive, automatiquement semble-t-il, dans la minute. Fidèle à son opacité habituelle, jamais Facebook ne fournit de raison à ces décisions.

Au cours de janvier et avril 2025, j’ai fait 118 signalements de propos haineux sur la plateforme. Seuls 6,8 % d’entre eux ont été supprimés, malgré mes demandes de réexamen.

J’ai déposé une plainte contre Facebook auprès de l’Arcom hier, pour manquement à ses obligations liées au Digital Services Act (DSA). La raison : une modération aux abonnés absents, impliquant un potentiel risque systémique.

Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media

46% of 16 to 21 year olds say they would rather a world without internet, and 70% say they feel worse about themselves after using social media.

It’s long past time governments stepped in to address the consequences of leaving the internet to the private sector.