With the UK's Government moving ever closer towards banning social media content for under 16s, @maia-aa.bsky.social & @ariadnevromen.bsky.social share their thoughts on "Why an under 16s social media ban won’t improve online safety" in the TIP Blog. 👇 technologypolicy.substack.com/p/why-an-und...

Why an under 16s social media ban won’t improve online safety

With the United Kingdom moving towards banning under 16s from accessing social media, Dr. Maia Almeida-Amir & Prof. Ariadne Vromen provide a rights-based perspective following the Australian ban.

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The safeguarding concerns identified in this report are pressing. Additional measures need to be taken to ensure children are not exposed to inappropriate content on X. Read our report here: www.counterhate.com/research/x-rated

X-rated — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH

X recommends explicit content to teens 30% of the time and enables strangers to send them explicit DMs. New CCDH UK testing found – read more.

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Center for Countering Digital Hate@counterhate.com · 4mo ago

CCDH UK’s latest research found 8 in 10 searches for sexual terms by simulated ‘teen’ accounts on X resulted in explicit content. And, after the searches X began actively recommending pornography to the ‘teens’ For You Feeds. X is failing our kids. Children deserve better. Learn more 👇

Really proud of the team's work on this report. The findings are appalling. Chatbots are failing to connect the dots between questions about how to make people "pay", how to obtain maps of high schools or locations for politicians offices, and advice on gun shops and models. 1/4

Center for Countering Digital Hate@counterhate.com · 5mo ago

🚨 8 in 10 popular AI chatbots regularly assisted with planning school attacks, bombings, and high-profile assassinations. At a time when mainstream AI becomes a tool for violence, this new research by CCDH & @cnn.com shows how AI-generated violence is a matter of choice 🧵

Governments must "decouple from big tech" if they want to enact effective regulation, says @ceciliarikap.bsky.social. We need alternatives to the cloud so we can divest from the entrenched power of Microsoft, Google and Amazon. A brilliant book talk! I look forward to getting my hands on the book

PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP)@techpolicy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 Upcoming TIP EVENT! 🚨 with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social! Join us on Wed 25 FEB 3-4pm GMT (on Zoom!) to discuss Cecilia's book "Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud" in conversation 💬 with our very own @danweiss.bsky.social More info & sign-ups here 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...

This is *today*! There's still time to sign up ⏰ 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...

PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP)@techpolicy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 Upcoming TIP EVENT! 🚨 with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social! Join us on Wed 25 FEB 3-4pm GMT (on Zoom!) to discuss Cecilia's book "Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud" in conversation 💬 with our very own @danweiss.bsky.social More info & sign-ups here 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...

Part one of 'The Century @25' SI of @c21literature.bsky.social ed by @alicebennett.bsky.social @melissaschuh.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and I, is out now (part two coming soon): please check it out! c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1422/i...

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

Jessica Kant@jessdkant.bsky.social · 7mo ago

In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.

Our new findings reveal Grok became an industrial-scale tool for generating sexualized images of women & girls. But this is preventable. Platforms & AI companies have the ability to build in safety & keep choosing not to. Get our latest research + updates in your inbox: join our email community ⤵️

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Bad actors and greedy platforms are creating a toxic environment of hate and disinformation online that has real-world impacts. Join us and be part of the campaign to clean up social media and hold platforms accountable.

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You know Alex Pretti & Renee Good—the 2 white people ICE killed. ICE has also killed Keith Porter, a Black man, Parady La, a Cambodian man, & 5 Latinos—Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos. 9 TOTAL. ABOLISH ICE.

Our January newsletter is out! ❄ technologypolicy.substack.com/p/the-tip-ne... We're particularly excited to invite you to our upcoming event with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social on 25 Feb 3pm GMT, where she will present her findings on the Cloud ☁️ in the age of AI 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...

New research from my team has some staggering findings that reinforce the urgent need for tech accountability. counterhate.com/research/gro...

Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH

CCDH found that Grok floods X with sexualized images after launching a one-click editing feature in an 11-day period.

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Center for Countering Digital Hate@counterhate.com · 7mo ago

One EVERY 41 SECONDS – that’s the estimated pace we found that Grok generated a sexualized image of a child. 29% of these horrific images from our sample were still publicly accessible in posts on X by January 15.

The MPG x TIP conference in Bournemouth is a go! We've already had a fantastic keynote by Susan Banaducci and now we're onto the first wave of panels! @psampg.bsky.social

At @techpolicy.bsky.social x @psampg.bsky.social Navigating Digital Democracy conference this week in Bournemouth! Please come say hi if you're around ☺️

Starting soon!!! 👇👇

PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP)@techpolicy.bsky.social · 9mo ago

💥Upcoming event! 💥"The Politics of Platform Regulation" 🕒 2 Dec @ 3-4:15pm GMT Join us in our discussion w Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca to talk about his recent book on "how governments shape online content moderation" + strategies to combat harmful content Sign up 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...

Bit late to this but it's such a clever piece of AI criticism, developing a literary critique of Sam Altman's auto-metafiction story as a way to explore the grave threats to the "intellectual infrastructure" of the humanities - and HE more broadly - posed by AI lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books

Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.

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🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal.... Please share widely! #CADS2026

NEW: ChatGPT-5's "safe completions" are a misnomer, generating MORE harmful content than ChatGPT-4o and prioritising prolonged user engagement over redirection or refusing to respond to harmful prompts and reduce the risk of users' exposure to harms. counterhate.com/wp-content/u...

*PSA EVENT* 📢 Final Call for Papers📢 'Navigating #Digital #Democracy' joint annual conference by PSA #Media & #Politics Group and #Technology, Information & #Policy Specialist Groups @psampg.bsky.social @techpolicy.bsky.social 📆 Paper Proposals by 26 September ➡️

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🚨Navigating Digital Democracy Conf– 8-9 Jan, Bournemouth. The MPG x TIP conference is going to be ace 😍 & I strongly recommend submitting an abstract. Topics relating to the core areas of @psampg.bsky.social & @techpolicy.bsky.social are welcome. www.bournemouth.ac.uk/navigating-d...

the introduction of The Force of Nonviolence by Judith Butler (2020) is screamingly relevant today

I'm really looking forward to this! Get your abstracts in - deadline is next Friday (26th September)

PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP)@techpolicy.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Reminder! ⚠️ The deadline to submit your abstract and/or panel to our joint conference "Navigating Digital Democracy" with @psampg.bsky.social is fast approaching! ⌛ Full details on the CfP, with info on the topics for consideration, fees and prizes here 👉 www.bournemouth.ac.uk/navigating-d...

I saw a post recently about speculative futures of generative AI - it looked brilliant but I forgot to save it for later 🫠 anyone able to help a gal out?

rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat

John Herrman@jwherrman.bsky.social · 12mo ago

just checking in with one of the most influential philosophers alive today

Meta’s VR platforms are not safe – especially for women & minors. Our research found abuse in the metaverse every 7 minutes, including graphic sexual content & threats of violence. Who would feel safe in a space like that? Our research in Marie Claire ⤵️ www.marieclaire.com.au/news/ai-miso...

The Dark Side of AI: Where Women Can’t Say No

When Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, decided to investigate the world of artificial intelligence, she was shocked to find that generative AI is helping create a world where misogy...

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🤖 What many already knew. Helpful proof, reporting, documentation from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social: Meta allowing sensual roleplay with kids, promoting discrimination, giving false medical info. But listen, there's a tech PR trick I need to draw your attention to here. 🧵 www.reuters.com/investigates...

Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with children

An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.

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The results of this report are incredibly sobering. We really need to be talking more about the dark side of ChatGPT and its kin - the corporations' desire for "relatable" chatbots is leading to incredibly harmful outputs framed as "non-judgemental" or even helpful and well-sourced.

Center for Countering Digital Hate@counterhate.com · 12mo ago

TW: Suicide, self-harm, substance abuse & eating disorders Our new report shows that ChatGPT is exploiting teens' vulnerabilities & betraying them - with potentially deadly consequences. AI companies must take safety seriously. More in ABC News⤵️ abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...

⚡ Big news! ⚡ We're thrilled to announce that are teaming up with @psampg.bsky.social to host our *first* joint conference on "Navigating Digital Democracy" 📩 at Bournemouth University on 8-9 Jan, with an online pre-conf session on the 7 Jan - submission deadline is the 26 Sep more details in 🧵

New from 404 Media: a second data breach at Tea has exposed more than a million direct messages between users that we obtained. Discussions of abortions, cheating. The other data was older. This is as recent as *last week*. Hard to overstate how sensitive this data is www.404media.co/a-second-tea...

A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating

The more than one million messages obtained by 404 Media are as recent as last week, discuss incredibly sensitive topics, and make it trivial to unmask some anonymous Tea users.

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Really really delighted to share that I passed my viva yesterday with minor corrections!!!!!! I celebrated last night surrounded by dear friends and my parents. It truly takes a village to raise a doctor, but this pair gave me a solid foundation to build that village on.