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Alia Al Ghussain @aliaalghussain.bsky.social · Apr 14

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...

Can Facebook Be Held Responsible for Violence in Africa? Kenya’s Courts Say Yes | OkayAfrica

Ethiopian plaintiffs take on Meta in a landmark Kenyan lawsuit that could redefine Big Tech's accountability for fueling violence in Africa.

www.okayafrica.com

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Alia Al Ghussain @aliaalghussain.bsky.social · Apr 4

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...

Why we need to rein in Big Tech

www.irishruleoflaw.ie

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Alia Al Ghussain @aliaalghussain.bsky.social · Apr 4

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.

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Alia Al Ghussain @aliaalghussain.bsky.social · Apr 4

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.

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Alia Al Ghussain @aliaalghussain.bsky.social · Apr 4

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...

Kenya: Meta can be sued in Kenya for role in Ethiopia conflict

Kenya High Court has ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear case against Meta over its role in Ethiopia conflict.

www.amnesty.org

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Alia Al Ghussain @aliaalghussain.bsky.social · Mar 17

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.

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Alia Al Ghussain @aliaalghussain.bsky.social · Mar 17

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.

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Alia Al Ghussain @aliaalghussain.bsky.social · Mar 17

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.

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Alia Al Ghussain @aliaalghussain.bsky.social · Mar 17

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.

cdt.org/wp-content/u...

cdt.org

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Alia Al Ghussain @aliaalghussain.bsky.social · Feb 21

Session is at 3.15pm Taipei time!

Alia Al Ghussain @aliaalghussain.bsky.social · Feb 21

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 🙂

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Alia Al Ghussain @aliaalghussain.bsky.social · Feb 21

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.

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Alia Al Ghussain @aliaalghussain.bsky.social · Feb 21

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?"

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caatuk.bsky.social @caatuk.bsky.social · Feb 18

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.

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Alia Al Ghussain @aliaalghussain.bsky.social · Feb 18

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...

Meta’s New Content Policies Risk Fueling More Mass Violence And Genocide | TechPolicy.Press

Ignoring lessons from Myanmar and Ethiopia, Meta is stripping away safeguards against mass violence, write Pat de Brún and Maung Sawyeddollah.

www.techpolicy.press

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Alia Al Ghussain @aliaalghussain.bsky.social · Jan 24

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.

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Alia Al Ghussain @aliaalghussain.bsky.social · Jan 24

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...

United States: Rohingya survivor asks US regulator to investigate Meta’s potential role in Myanmar atrocities

Maung Sawyeddollah, a Rohingya human rights activist has filed a whistleblower complaint with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), asking the agency to investigate Meta for alleged violati...

www.amnesty.org

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War on Want @waronwant.bsky.social · Jan 21

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.

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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · Jan 14

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...

Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms | Johnny Ryan

The latest actions of Musk and Zuckerberg are a sign of things to come, but the EU already has the power to give people back control, says Johnny Ryan, director of Enforce, a unit of the Irish Council...

www.theguardian.com

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War on Want @waronwant.bsky.social · Jan 13

“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...

Algeria records highest temperatures in 2024 as global warming breaches 1.5C

Swathes of the Middle East and North Africa have seen more days than average of 'extreme heat stress'

www.middleeasteye.net

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Aoife White @aoifewhite.bsky.social · Jan 13

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...

Financial TimesFinancial Times

News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics

FT.com

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · Jan 10

“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...

Zuckerberg vs. Democracy

The changes he’s making to appease Donald Trump won’t fix the ways Facebook is harmful to our civic and political life.

www.thebulwark.com

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Jan 4

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

Rick Marriner @rickmarriner.com · Jan 4

A gentle reminder that humans are also pattern-matching machines—but with identity crises, biases, and the occasional existential dread. Maybe the real Turing Test is figuring out which one overthinks more.

#AI #Philosophy
#HumanVsMachine

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Jan 4

a gentle reminder that a chatbot does NOT have personality, identity, gender, volution, intentions, or feelings... it is a computer program that's extremely good at predicting the next word in a sequence based on previous words it has "seen"

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · Dec 26

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.

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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · Dec 24

#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

ChatGPT search tool vulnerable to manipulation and deception, tests show

Exclusive: Guardian testing reveals AI-powered search tools can return false or malicious results if webpages contain hidden text

www.theguardian.com

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