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March With Us This Weekend Plus: The Botlash Is Here!

We know. You’re tired of AI. We’re tired of AI.

But what if something better could rise from the chaos? Or in other words: Is “the ‘botlash’ movement gaining momentum?

Some good thinking from @marietjeschaake.bsky.social in our latest newsletter 👇

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Abuse as the buisness model As platforms face trial and AI accelerates harm, the crisis of online exploitation is exposing deeper structural failures.

“What young people need is the government to actually hold big tech companies to account for the harm they’re perpetuating.”

@adelewalton.bsky.social speaks to us about the potential of a blanket ban on social media for under 16s 👉 citizensreunited.substack.com/p/abuse-as-t...

Abuse as the buisness model As platforms face trial and AI accelerates harm, the crisis of online exploitation is exposing deeper structural failures.

The third edition of Citizens Understand zooms out to examine how a profitable market in sexualised youth intersects with engagement-driven platform design.

AI generating sexualised images of girls, tech giants facing trial and governments scrambling to catch up.

How in the hell did we get here? 👇

We surface practical ways to turn public concern into political action every week in our newsletter.

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Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators…

👁️ Not to be paranoid or anything, but OMG IS YOUR PHONE BEING SPIED ON!? (Probably)

From @eff.org - this new tool can tell you if you’re a victim of cellular spying 👇

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Molly vs. the Machines is Coming 🤖

This is one of the most important films of the decade - as it's grounded in the belief that we can still, no matter what, fight back.

🎥 Watch the trailer now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH0b...

📩 We surface practical ways to turn public concern into political action every week.

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The Big Tech Walkout 2026 Here is the full detailed programme for the Big Tech Walkout 2026 - bookmark it so you can refer back to it over the year

Wanna break up with Big Tech ? 🔌

Rebel Tech Alliance will help you do it ethically, intentionally and without dramatically throwing your phone into a river.

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Abuse as the buisness model As platforms face trial and AI accelerates harm, the crisis of online exploitation is exposing deeper structural failures.

For two decades, child sexual exploitation online has largely been framed as a moderation problem. 

What if this is not a failure of enforcement but a feature of the system? 👉 citizensreunited.substack.com/p/abuse-as-t...

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March With Us This Weekend Plus: The Botlash Is Here!

Plans? Want to be at the first-ever AI march in the UK, so you can tell your kids about it?

🔌 With Pull the Plug, we're taking the fight right to the Big Tech giants' office.

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Abuse as the buisness model As platforms face trial and AI accelerates harm, the crisis of online exploitation is exposing deeper structural failures.

As platforms face trial and AI accelerates harm, the crisis of online exploitation is exposing deeper structural failures.

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Home - Pull The Plug We're here to pull the plug on unregulated and inhumane uses of AI. We want ordinary people to have a real say in how AI is used in our lives.

🔌 Pull the plug @pulltheplug-ai.bsky.social is taking the fight right to OpenAi and the Big Tech giants ⬇️

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March With Us This Weekend Plus: The Botlash Is Here!

🚨 Citizens IRL!

We’ll be speaking at the first-ever AI march in the UK tomorrow. Wanna join us?

Find out more here 👇

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Outstanding summary thread on the most important matter in UK politics. Unresolved, there is no UK politics. Big Media is downplaying this. We have to establish why.

As @alexsobel.co.uk MP put it: “If we don’t resist, act and legislate now, how can we ever expect to live in a legitimate democracy?”

Nothing less than an independent, statutory public inquiry will adequately bring the breadth of Russian interference into the light.

I Can Change Him, I Swear! Plus: The Big Tech Walkout

In our latest newsletter, we recommend @billyperrigo.bsky.social’s feature on Meta’s former PR hatchet man turned whistleblower turned… anti-big tech leader?

Plus: what to watch and do this week 👇

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Russian Inference, Brexit - our democratic wound And why only a full reckoning will heal it

A narrow review and a Bill that ducks the bigger issues do little to defend the UK against threats to democracy - but they do strengthen the case for a full inquiry ⬇️

Russian Inference, Brexit - our democratic wound And why only a full reckoning will heal it

If foreign influence touched the most consequential democratic decision in modern British history, then the public is entitled to know the full truth. Not fragments and assurances. The full truth.

Text reads: ChatGPT is Trump's biggest donor, and ICE uses ChatGPT. It's time to Quit.

ChatGPT? How about QuitGPT, a new global boycott.

ICYMI: ChatGPT is Trump's biggest donor, and ICE uses it.

Three ways to act from the organisers @quitgpt.bsky.social 👇

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Russian Inference, Brexit - our democratic wound And why only a full reckoning will heal it

A narrow review and a Bill that ducks the bigger issues do little to defend the UK against threats to democracy - but they do strengthen the case for a full inquiry ⬇️

citizensreunited.substack.com/p/russian-in...

“We need a proper, Mueller-style probe into what happened in 2016 and since.” @elliechowns.bsky.social

Russian Inference, Brexit - our democratic wound And why only a full reckoning will heal it

Government’s failure to take stronger action only reinforces the case for a full public inquiry.

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"If we don’t resist, act and legislate now, how can we ever expect to live in a legitimate democracy?” @alexsobel.co.uk