Marie Lamensch

Hidden cameras capture explicit videos of women in China Women in China urge Beijing to act after exploitative videos and photos, many taken in secret, are shared on Telegram channels.

Women in China call for action over exploitative content on Telegram channels

Good luck with that. Telegram is one of the worst platforms for content moderation. Kids and women are not protected

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

The Most Nihilistic Conflict on Earth Sudan’s devastating civil war shows what will replace the liberal order: anarchy and greed.

“Statistics are sometimes used to express the scale of the destruction in Sudan. About 14 million people have been displaced by years of fighting, more than in Ukraine and Gaza combined.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

AI chatbots often advise women to ask for lower pay than men: new study AI chatbots often suggest significantly lower salaries to women and some ethnic minorities, a new study has found.

AI is biased example 1000x

womensagenda.com.au/tech/ai-chat...

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

Of course.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Putin Widens Effort to Control Russia’s Internet

The Kremlin is building out a domestic ecosystem of easily monitored and censored Russian alternatives to Western tech products
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/w... #digitalauthoritarianism

El Salvador Ends Term Limits, Letting Bukele Seek Re-Election Indefinitely

for those who still doubt that he is a dictator

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/w...

Russia: Internet Blocking, Disruptions and Increasing Isolation Russian authorities have doubled down on censorship online, internet disruptions, and surveillance since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Human Rights Watch said ...

Russian authorities are doubling down on censorship online, internet disruptions, and surveillance

www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

Despite more than a decade of sanctions, Western tech is still powering Russia’s deadliest weapons linked to deliberate strikes on Ukrainian civilians

united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

ChatGPT Gave Instructions for Murder, Self-Mutilation, and Devil Worship OpenAI’s chatbot also said “Hail Satan.”

ChatGPT Gave Instructions for Murder, Self-Mutilation, and Devil Worship
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Is the U.S. Ready for the Next War? With global conflicts increasingly shaped by drones and A.I., the American military risks losing its dominance.

« Ukraine devised a futuristic take on hit-and-run guerrilla operations. Now when a Russian column tries to advance it is met by a swarm of buzzing bombs. »

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

UK border officials to use AI to verify ages of child asylum seekers Trial of technology comes as official report warns existing system has been failing for at least a decade

mmhhh

UK border officials plan to use AI to assess child asylum seekers

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

AI-generated news channels spread election fraud and separatist narratives in Canada Highly partisan AI-generated news reached millions before being removed by YouTube.

AI-generated news channels spread election fraud and separatist narratives in Canada
dfrlab.org/2025/07/17/a...

Why tech billionaires want a dictatorship Guest host Jon Fortt and The Nerd Reich author Gil Duran on the rise of tech authoritarianism.

Why tech billionaires want a ‘corporate dictatorship’

"We see this Dunning-Kruger approach with everyone from Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos going into businesses where they have no experience and making a mess of things."

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Vidéo. « On meurt devant le monde entier » : un journaliste palestinien raconte au « Monde » la famine quotidienne à Gaza Vidéo - Rami Abou Jamous, journaliste gazaoui francophone, a envoyé au « Monde » un message vocal. Il raconte l’enfer pour se nourrir et boire de l’eau, alors qu’Israël restreint fortement l’accès à l...

« On a dépassé le Hunger Games. Là, on est vraiment dans la famine » www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Rwanda Classified: The Kagame regime has maintained its disinformation habit - Forbidden Stories As violence escalates in the DRC, Paul Kagame’s disinformation networks remain quite active.

Rwanda Classified: The Kagame regime has maintained its disinformation habit

"“He can’t say his troops are there, and he can’t say they aren’t anymore because that would put him in a lying position, so he just says ‘I don’t know'”."

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Sino-Russian Convergence in Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference: A Global Threat to the US and Its Allies Russian and Chinese foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) operations impact democratic processes and national security.

Sino-Russian Convergence in Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference: A Global Threat to the US and Its Allies
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Les jeunes sont-ils prêts pour la dictature ? ARCHIVE // Plus encore que les autres générations, les jeunes se détournent de la démocratie. Une proportion importante d'entre eux envisage même d'un œil favorable des alternatives autoritaires, selo...

« On fait face à ce qu’on appelle une déconsolidation démocratique » usbeketrica.com/fr/article/l...

Old Tricks, New Tech: How Legacy Media Capture Fuels Today’s Digital Authoritarianism | TechPolicy.Press Marius Dragomir and Minna Aslama Horowitz discuss how digital authoritarianism is rising as states and Big Tech align, threatening independent media.

“Without safeguards to press freedom online, tech platforms risk becoming the fifth column of authoritarian governments, closing off what little space remains for dissenting voices.” www.techpolicy.press/old-tricks-n... @techpolicypress.bsky.social

AI chatbot website with millions of users gives child rape advice Unmoderated AI chatbots being used to create child exploitation material is the topic of a roundtable at parliament this week.

Every day there is terrible AI chatbot news

AI chatbot website with millions of users gives child rape advice

www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/16/a...

Unnatural Disasters: The Next Front in Russia’s Hybrid War Russia could go beyond acts of sabotage in Europe this decade to secretly deploy solar geoengineering technologies, stoking disorder by destabilising the region's climate.

Russia could go beyond acts of sabotage in Europe this decade to secretly deploy solar geoengineering technologies, stoking disorder by destabilising the region's climate www.rusi.org/explore-our-...

AI chatbot ‘MechaHitler’ could be making content considered violent extremism, expert witness tells X v eSafety case Tribunal hearing comes days after Elon Musk’s xAI apologised for antisemitic comments made by its Grok bot

Why would someone still use X and Grok

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

US government announces $200 million Grok contract a week after ‘MechaHitler’ incident The Defense Department and other agencies will be able to use the AI behind Grok.

US government funds anti-semitic GenAI chatbot

Nothing to see here.

US government announces $200 million Grok contract a week after ‘MechaHitler’ incident

www.theverge.com/news/706855/...

Cyber threat bulletin: Iranian cyber threat to Canada from Israel-Iran conflict - Canadian Centre for Cyber Security Cyber threat bulletin: Iranian cyber threat to Canada from Israel-Iran conflict

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security warns of collateral damage from Iranian cyberattacks against the United States
www.cyber.gc.ca/en/guidance/...

Comment la guerre profite aux géants de l'IA De Mistral à OpenAI, les principaux acteurs de la tech profitent de la hausse des budgets militaires pour se mettre au service des armées, notamment à travers la conception d'outils d'intelligence art...

Comment la guerre profite aux géants de l’IA

usbeketrica.com/fr/article/c...

AI 'Nudify' Websites Are Raking in Millions of Dollars Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies.

Harmful AI “nudify” websites are collectively raking in up to $36 million a year while using tech services from Google, Amazon and Cloudflare
www.wired.com/story/ai-nud...

This TikTok video is fake, but every word was taken from a real creator TikTok researchers and users say there is yet another type of deception to look out for on the hit video app: deepfake videos that copy the exact words of a real creator but in a different voice.

A look at how a TikTok account whose person and voice appears to be AI-generated went viral by copying videos from human creators and perpetuating a conspiracy theory that incinerators were being set up at "Alligator Alcatraz". www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...

Fed up with ChatGPT, Latin America is building its own Dozens of organizations in the region have partnered to develop a large language model that better understands Latin America’s cultural and linguistic nuances.

Fed up with ChatGPT, Latin America is building its own

"The Latam-GPT project is building AI in Latin America, for Latin Americans."

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Israel enforcing Gaza evacuations with grenade-firing drones Israeli soldiers tell +972 they deliberately target Palestinian civilians with drone strikes so others will ‘learn’ not to return.

The Israeli army is weaponizing Chinese-made drones to police expulsion orders across Gaza, with soldiers saying they deliberately target civilians so others will ‘learn’ not to return
www.972mag.com/drones-grena...

xAI apologized for Grok's 'horrific' rant, and blamed its new instructions and 'extremist' X user posts Elon Musk's xAI said Grok's behavior was due to an update that caused it to prioritize engagement, even if posts contained "controversial opinions."

xAI apologized for Grok's 'horrific' rant, and blamed the chatbot's new instructions and 'extremist' X user posts
www.businessinsider.com/xai-grok-ant...

France launches criminal investigation into Musk’s X over algorithm manipulation The probe is based on complaints from a lawmaker and an unnamed senior civil servant.

French prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into X over allegations that the company owned by billionaire Elon Musk manipulated its algorithms for the purposes of “foreign interference www.politico.eu/article/fran...