Marlena Wisniak

DOGE Has ‘God Mode’ Access to Government Data The president’s special commission now has an unprecedented ability to view and manipulate information at many federal agencies.

NEW: Two weeks ago gov't IT experts warned us that the worst case scenario would be if DOGE got full admin access to agency systems. We can report at at least one agency DOGE has unfettered "god mode" access. Our latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Where to find ECNL at RightsCon 2025? Join us at the 13th edition of RightsCon in Taipei, the largest global summit on human rights in the digital age.

Join @ecnl.bsky.social at RightsCon in Taipei, largest global summit on human rights in the digital age with stellar colleagues leading and contributing to discussions on our brighter (digital) future @marle.bsky.social karolina iwanska, @therealfranfanu.bsky.social : ecnl.org/news/where-f...

Protesters gathered in front of a Tesla showroom on Van Ness Ave. Wednesday evening to protest Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency.

📸: Dan Hernandez/The Chronicle

We’re planning to put out some written thoughts after rightscon — will send your way!

At Alphabet, we are committed to making diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything we do and to growing a workforce that is representative of the users we serve. More information on Google’s approach to diversity can be found in our annual diversity reports, available publicly at diversity.google. The contents of our diversity reports are not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K or in any other report or document we file with the SEC.

Alphabet/Google today removed a section on diversity from its annual SEC filing. No more "we are committed to making DEI part of everything we do"

Also it broadened language on using contractors and replaced a reference to wanting "productive" employees to wanting ones who "perform at a high level"

DOGE Employees Ordered to Stop Using Slack While Agency Transitions to a Records System Not Subject to FOIA Employees at Elon Musk's agency have been told "OMB is asking us to stop generating new slack messages starting now."

New from 404 Media: Employees working at DOGE have been ordered to stop using Slack while government lawyers attempt to transition the agency to one that is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Means DOGE will be even more secretive and unaccountable www.404media.co/doge-employe...

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗

Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation. The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything

My latest.

As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.

I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.

Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

YouTube video by Indivisible We Choose to Fight Action Call

And hey, there's always a petition. sign.moveon.org/petitions/do...

The recording of the full Zoom call (a little over an hour) is on YouTube, if you want to see folks explain this all a lot better than I can. www.youtube.com/watch?v=55yf...

Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous Remember how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter by ripping apart its infrastructure without understanding it? Now imagine that same playbook applied to the federal government. It’s happening, and th…

Frustrated there's not more I can do directly, but for now I can just try to document reality. Elon is bringing his Twitter destruction playbook to the US government, and it's impossible to explain just how serious and bad this is.

www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...

In What’s in an Algorithm? Empowering Users Through Nutrition Labels for Social Media Recommender Systems, Luca Belli & @marle.bsky.social propose introducing labels for recommender systems that enable transparency, mitigate harm, and promote users' rights.
knightcolumbia.org/content/what...

Signal president Meredith Whittaker rejects ‘mass surveillance’ U.K. law Whittaker said Signal would not abide by the proposed law, and highlighted concerns about privacy and the need for tech leaders to take a stand against socially accepted surveillance.

Signal president @meredithmeredith.bsky.social says the company will not comply with the proposed U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ law requiring mandatory message scanning before

https://fortune.com/2023/07/13/signal-president-mass-surveillance-uk-law/

Apple finally joins the fight against the scanning provisions UK's Online Safety Bill.

As noted encryption policy expert Lizzo would say: it's about damn time.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66028773

At ECNL we’re grateful to be part of the convo on civic freedoms & risk assessments re 🇪🇺Digital Services Act (DSA). Stay tuned for new work w/@accessnow

Let’s keep the engagement going,centering & elevating marginalized voices like racialized persons, women & LGBTQI! ✊✊🏾🏳️‍🌈

Happy birthday dear! Sending you some fellow Taurus love 💕🌈

Turkey’s Control of the Internet Threatens Election Voters in Turkey will head to the polls in a high-stakes election on May 14, 2023, amid concern that the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will exert considerable control over the digital ecosystem in an effort to undermine the outcome of the election.

On Sunday Turkey votes in what is probably one of the most important election of the year. Together with Article19 we documented how Turkey‘s control over the internet threatens the election - and how social media platforms are simply not doing a good enough job 👇🏻
https://t.co/Bvx7MA222V