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Audrey Tang: A.I. should serve communities, not control them As Taiwan’s first digital minister, Tang pioneered a model of AI governance built on civic participation, transparency and “broad listening."

No one actually wants an all-seeing AI that disempowers humans, Aubrey Tang told @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social at #MozFest. Yet in Silicon Valley, both AI doomers & accelerators assume that future is inevitable. Audrey Tang has a word for this: hyperstition.

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A.I. labs want more of your time. That's a problem. Healthy disengagement — not stickiness — should become a core safety feature within AI chatbots.

If AI companies truly cared about “healthy engagement,” they’d design for healthy disengagement. Most aren’t, write @mluria.bsky.social and Amy Winecoff from @cdt.org.

Meta victory reveals cracks in antitrust enforcement If Meta’s not a monopoly, the ruling gives every other tech giant a green light to become one.

"If competition from TikTok and YouTube are enough to suggest that Meta’s products aren’t monopolistic, it says more about the limits of antitrust laws than it does Meta’s monopolistic nature," writes @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social.

UNESCO’s fight for relevance The United Nations cultural agency must prove multilateralism still matters in the age of AI.

Relevance was a key theme for #UNGA. For UNESCO it's even more pressing, writes @estherpaniagua.bsky.social. "The next director-general must ... preserve UNESCO’s relevance and navigate a world where faith in multilateral institutions is waning."
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Great reporting from @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social that reveals a troubling trend among police departments beginning to use AI that connects to body cameras.

My dear friend and distance cycling partner @natematias.bsky.social is riding the equivalent of Mt. Everest this weekend, as a fundraiser for @globalvoices.org, my online home for over 16 years. Please support Nathan and Global Voices! globalvoices.org/2025/07/24/f...

We’re planning something very cool during UNGA with @theodoraskeadas.bsky.social @meowtree.bsky.social @authormala.bsky.social @ruchowdh.bsky.social and more. Save this date and follow @compiler.news for more details coming soon.

How to harness A.I. in the fight for democracy Autocratic regimes are using artificial intelligence to attack democracies, stirring concern from Romania to Rhode Island. But the technology could also become a powerful tool to safeguard elections i...

Russia’s AI-powered interference in Romania’s election is a serious warning sign, writes @isabelalinzer.bsky.social of @cdt.org. The threat from AI is growing—but with the right tools, attention and resources, it can help defend democracy, not just endanger it.
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I am thrilled share that I'm joining the @freeourfeeds.com team as interim director. Since leaving @globalvoices.org I've been focused on the incentives that influence how we talk to each other in public spaces and online. Free Our Feeds tackles this head on at the level of infrastructure.

What American really feel about A.I. The Trump administration's AI Action Plan received more than 10,000 comments. We analyzed all of them to find out how Americans feel about artificial intelligence and its impact on jobs, human rights,...

We analyzed 10,066 comments to Trump's AI Action Plan to understand who sent feedback, what they said & how they felt. The results show an engaged public "aware of how AI may benefit or harm their lives," writes @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social.

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Kenyan lawsuit against Meta will test Big Tech accountability A Kenyan court will hear a $1.6 billion lawsuit that alleges Facebook helped incite genocide in Ethiopia. The case could be a model for those looking to hold platforms responsible for online hate and ...

The Kenyan case against Meta is one of the only measures of accountability the company faces for how its platform has been weaponized by military and paramilitary groups to destabilize nations and target ethnic minorities, writes @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social.

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Kenyan lawsuit against Meta will test Big Tech accountability A Kenyan court will hear a $1.6 billion lawsuit that alleges Facebook helped incite genocide in Ethiopia. The case could be a model for those looking to hold platforms responsible for online hate and ...

@amnesty.org, @hrw.org & other groups accused the Ethiopian military of engaging in ethnic cleansing & war crimes against ethnic Tigrayans. A lawsuit alleging Meta played a role could set a global precedent by holding Big Tech accountable for real-world harms.

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Kenyan lawsuit against Meta will test Big Tech accountability A Kenyan court will hear a $1.6 billion lawsuit that alleges Facebook helped incite genocide in Ethiopia. The case could be a model for those looking to hold platforms responsible for online hate and ...

The $1.6B suit against Meta brought by @marthadark.bsky.social & Foxglove Legal alleges Meta played a key role in fueling Ethiopia’s civil war by amplifying hate speech & failing to remove threats. If the case succeeds, it will set a global precedent.

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Kenyan lawsuit against Meta will test Big Tech accountability A Kenyan court will hear a $1.6 billion lawsuit that alleges Facebook helped incite genocide in Ethiopia. The case could be a model for those looking to hold platforms responsible for online hate and ...

In a $1.6B lawsuit, Meta is accused of helping incite ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia. If the case succeeds, writes @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social, it could open the door to real accountability for platform-enabled violence worldwide.

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Nina (@ninajankowicz.com) did a fantastic job testifying in the latest of the "censorship industrial complex" hearings, noting how the elaborate conspiracy theories from Taibbi & others emerge from profound misunderstandings — and intentional mischaracterizations — of how any number of things work.

Great piece by @compiler.news tying together AI powered surveillance, its effect on online speech, and how tools designed for stopping online abuse can potentially be exploited. My caveat is that many tools are more basic than AI, like keyword matches and basic ML

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The chilling effects of using A.I. to hunt ‘pro-Hamas’ activists The State Department is attempting to use artificial intelligence to target visa holders in the United States who express views counter to U.S. foreign policy. Is the real goal legitimizing a politica...

Good reminder here: Immigration authorities in the U.S. have been collecting social media data since Trump 1.0. Now they're using it to justify their "catch and revoke" scheme.

Important reporting and analysis by @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social

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Grateful for the excellent edits from @elleryrb.bsky.social. Read my latest on the consequences of using AI to "catch and revoke" the visas of non-citizens protesting against the war in Gaza and those deemed by the government to have "pro-hamas" views.

The chilling effects of using A.I. to hunt ‘pro-Hamas’ activists The State Department is attempting to use artificial intelligence to target visa holders in the United States who express views counter to U.S. foreign policy. Is the real goal legitimizing a politica...

Models that fuel AI systems have historically been biased against minorities, says @alexhanna.bsky.social. These biases are exacerbated when asking models to work in a language like Arabic. “It’s going to do a bad job.”
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The chilling effects of using A.I. to hunt ‘pro-Hamas’ activists The State Department is attempting to use artificial intelligence to target visa holders in the United States who express views counter to U.S. foreign policy. Is the real goal legitimizing a politica...

The Trump administration’s access to potentially hazardous AI tools gives it far greater strength to execute what political experts and international observers worry is a quick slide into tech-fueled authoritarianism, writes @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social.
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The chilling effects of using A.I. to hunt ‘pro-Hamas’ activists The State Department is attempting to use artificial intelligence to target visa holders in the United States who express views counter to U.S. foreign policy. Is the real goal legitimizing a politica...

“We've talked to non-citizen students and faculty around the country—and people are terrified,” says @alexabdo.bsky.social. Students and faculty are already self-censoring in fear of deportation, removing social media posts or taking down past scholarship.
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How to resist climate disinformation during Trump 2.0 An assault on facts started as soon as Trump took office, but scientists, climate activists and the international community must fight back against lies, distortions and a dangerous withdrawal from th...

There were a good amount of environmental policy distortions in Trump's speech to Congress last night. @bryangiemza.com breaks down how to deal with climate disinformation during Tump 2.0.

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How to resist climate disinformation during Trump 2.0 An assault on facts started as soon as Trump took office, but scientists, climate activists and the international community must fight back against lies, distortions and a dangerous withdrawal from th...

Smart, provacative & #solution oriented #opinion piece from @bryangiemza.com in @compiler.news about the threat of #climate disinformation during the #Trump administration. Take a look and share with anyone concerned about environmental info disorder.
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How to resist climate disinformation during Trump 2.0 An assault on facts started as soon as Trump took office, but scientists, climate activists and the international community must fight back against lies, distortions and a dangerous withdrawal from th...

Bringing people together, addressing information disorder, and confronting climate change--these things are related. Delighted to see my oped out with Compiler today, and grateful to Mike Farrell for his vision and excellent editorial eye:
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‘AI for Good’ shouldn’t become the new innovation arbitrage If technology is being tested more aggressively in poorer communities, it's worth asking why.

If technology is being tested more aggressively in poorer communities, it's worth asking why www.compiler.news/ai-for-good-... @ruchowdh.bsky.social

Incredibly proud to see my amazing friend Paola Galvez Callirgos share her perspectives along such wonderful women. Women in the Global Majority fighting for a fair AI. Our voices are needed 🫡

Tech's new AI cold war The fight for artificial intelligence dominance is pushing global cooperation to the brink, and the consequences could be catastrophic.

"There’s a pressing need to shift the [AI] conversation from competition to collaboration—failing to do so could come at a critical cost not only to global economies but the safety of people everywhere," writes @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social.

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‘AI for Good’ shouldn’t become the new innovation arbitrage If technology is being tested more aggressively in poorer communities, it's worth asking why.

"Deployed poorly, so-called 'AI for Good' ... can serve as a convenient test environment for these tools in a less visible or legally restrictive environment, with local populations as collateral damage," says @ruchowdh.bsky.social of @humaneintelligence.bsky.social
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The AI Action Summit Edition A special edition of Compiler highlighting Global Majority issues typically left out of major tech summits like the Paris AI Action Forum.

Our AI Action Summit Edition highlights Global Majority perspectives often left out of international summits such as last week's in Paris. Big ideas from @ruchowdh.bsky.social, @camilleesq.bsky.social, @chinasa.bsky.social, @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social and more!

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