I spoke to OkayAfrica about the landmark Kenya lawsuit in which a judge recently rule the court has jurisdiction to hear a case against #Meta for its contribution to violence in #Ethiopia about the avenues this opens up for community accountability
Read more here: www.okayafrica.com/kenya-ethiop...
A real pleasure to speak to Evelyn for the IRLI podcast on why we need to rein in Big Tech. We discussed Meta's recent changes to fact-checking & policy & much more.
Listen here: www.irishruleoflaw.ie/_why_we_need...
The idea that countries outside of the #US and #Europe are simply markets where profits can be made in the absence of accountability must be challenged & this decision brings us a step closer to that.
The decision is a very positive step towards holding Big Tech companies accountable for contributing to human rights abuses & offers hope that marginalized groups can access justice no matter where they are in the world.
In a highly significant victory, yesterday Kenya's High Court ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear & consider the merits of case in which #Meta is accused of promoting content that led to ethnic violence & killings in #Ethiopia.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
We conclude that (unsurprisingly) Big Tech companies are failing to adequately assess and address harms and foreseeable negative impacts of their functionality on human rights.
The first self-risk assessments of online platforms and search engines were submitted in November 2024. The civil society feedback is aimed at identifying key trends, useful practices and gaps to improve fundamental rights.
Risk Assessments Reports offer insights into how major tech platforms identify and assess systemic risks stemming from their services such as spreading of harmful content and outline steps they’ve taken to address the risks.
Today @amnesty.org & the DSA Civil Society Coordination Group published its analysis of the Risk Assessments Reports under the Digital Services Act (#DSA). It focuses on the reports of Google, Meta, TikTok and X.
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Session is at 3.15pm Taipei time!
If you're planning to attend RightsCon (or are in a Taipei-friendly time zone), please feel free to stop by the session on Tuesday, 25th February at Room 201F, or online. Or DM if you'd like to chat all things Big Tech at some point 🙂
This is an absolutely crucial topic, especially in light of the shocking policy changes made by #Meta earlier this year. Progressive, human rights-centered digital regulation is more crucial now than ever before.
I will be in #Taipei next week for #RightsCon 2025 and absolutely thrilled to be participating in a roundtable arranged by AI Taiwan on "Taiwan's next step: how to end online discrimination & hate speech without compromising civic space?"
With over 230 organisations, we are demanding our government immediately halt all arms transfers to Israel, including F-35 fighter jets which the UK produces 15% of.
Recent policy developments by Meta increase the risk of contributing to mass violence & gross human rights abuses - just like it did in Myanmar in 2017.
A timely op-ed by @patdebrun.bsky.social & Rohingya survivor Maung Sawyeddollah 👇
www.techpolicy.press/metas-new-co...
Amnesty, OSJI and VAI supported the submission, which provides information on Meta's alleged role in the atrocities against the Rohingya. It highlights how the company misled the SEC and its own public investors.
A Rohingya survivor, Maung Sawyeddollah, has filed a whistleblower complaint with the SEC, asking the agency to investigate Meta for possibly violating securities law by not disclosing its contributions to the 2017 atrocities against the #Rohingya in Myanmar.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
US President Donald Trump has made his government's plans clear - prioritising the profits of big corporations over the needs of people & our planet.
These policies are a manifestation of a far-right political agenda of racism & bigotry, and we must stand against it.
Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its #algorithms - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... yes: johnny ryan is right, and knows what he is talking about...
“You could say the dominoes are falling, and they’re falling on, of course, the poorest people in the world”.
Our Executive Director, Asad Rehman, spoke to Middle East Eye about how global heating breaching the 1.5°C target is magnifying global inequalities. www.middleeasteye.net/news/algeria...
And another view on this from the @financialtimes.com
"If Meta and X were confident in heading off the regulatory impositions of the EU, Brazil and elsewhere, they would not need to swing behind Trump and the new administration."
www.ft.com/content/917c...
“The fact that Zuckerberg openly said that he is enlisting Trump’s help to pressure global regulators to not enforce their own laws in their own countries should concern anyone who cares about global democracy.” www.thebulwark.com/p/zuckerberg...
oversimplification of human cognition while overinflating the capacity of computers is not the clever and logical argument you think it is. it only serves as a pr for big tech and their shareholders
Saying "AI is just a tool" does not mean you get to absolve yourself of thinking critically about the labor implications, or how LLMs trained on stolen work, or the water and power needs of the sector.
#ChatGPT search tool vulnerable to manipulation and deception, tests show - www.theguardian.com/technology/2... " testing reveals AI-powered search tools can return false or malicious results if webpages contain hidden text" hardly news... #genai
The thing I keep thinking about with this Blake Lively situation is how well-resourced this woman is. I want people to think about the bot army and the structured takedown, and how eager people were to participate, and how this is doubtlessly done to activists and thinkers without consequence.
One of the degrading inanities of 45/47 is that he sees everything as a real estate deal or a grift. Except for stuff he sees as golf course management, for ex: to prevent forest fires you just need to rake the forest floor. Greenland is not for sale.
🚨We're hiring for a short term consultancy!🚨
Amnesty Tech are looking for a consultant to work on Competition Law and Human Rights Policy Research - with a focus on Big Tech.
More details here: careers.amnesty.org/jobs/vacancy...
If there's one thing the NYPD is good at, it's...art history?
Not comparing Luigi Mangione to Jesus Christ, but I am comparing composition to composition.
Following @amnesty.org 's report on genocide in #Gaza, Human Rights Watch now makes the same finding.
The consensus amongst human rights organisations is growing. This is genocide. And no one can say they did not know.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
