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Andy Burrows
@andyburrows.bsky.social
CEO, Molly Rose Foundation. Tech accountability / online safety / good trouble
Strong front pages today. It’s clear that Ofcom needs to move away from its ‘gamechanging’ PR claims and start engaging with the deep and substantive concerns being widely expressed by civil society. @mollyroseorg.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Today you’ll hear a lot of PR about @ofcom.bsky.social ’s measures to prevent children being algorithmically recommended suicide and self-harm content. In the small print, Ofcom says these apparently sweeping measures… will cost tech firms £3,000 to £20k per annum. @mollyroseorg.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 5:56 AM
If Playbook’s reporting is correct, this is an appalling sell-out of children’s safety. How many young lives are we prepared to lose to dodge Trump’s tariffs? @mollyroseorg.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Worth reading in full Peter Kyle’s comments to @lbc.co.uk earlier today. A mix of vague assurances and an acceptance he’s planning a ‘piecemeal’ approach to fixing the #OnlineSafetyAct - hardly the decisive action that Ian Russell and other bereaved parents have called for @mollyroseorg.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This little vignette from the Trump inauguration parties: ‘We’re letting a lot more stuff through. A lot’ said a member of TikTok’s DC-based policy team.
March 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM
This is truly despicable. More seriously, the decision to present this to non-US users should raise eyebrows.
February 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Two fascinating graphs showing the AI bubble in action: market capitalisation is soaring ahead of the early days of the web, but private sector R&D is lagging far behind previous comparable tech breakthroughs
February 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Hey Chat GPT, show me what delicious irony looks like
January 29, 2025 at 11:25 AM
When Nick Clegg attempts to build his post-Meta career as an elder statesman, remember this. Standing behind changes that allow people to be called ‘filth’ and LGBTQ+ people ‘mentally ill.’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
January 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
‘Appeasement is the art of being nice to a crocodile in the hope it will eat you last.’ Excoriating take from John Naughton on the Secretary of State’s flawed logic of genuflecting before tech companies
January 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Making the case for a conduct-based framework for social media platforms through the unlikely means of graffiti in Camden Town
January 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Tonight’s Playbook reports ‘people in Government were thrilled to see US tech bro’ Marc Andreeseen supporting their AI action plan.

AKA the same man whose VC firm is backing CharacterAI - the platform that hosted chatbots in the guise of Molly and Brianna Ghey @mollyroseorg.bsky.social
January 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
So Zuck has decided it’s now acceptable to refer to women as property, gay people as mentally ill, and to call people ‘primitives’ on Meta platforms. This bonfire of safety measures isn’t just shameless opportunism, it’s nothing short of disgraceful.
January 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
We know that Molly was inundated with depression-related email prompts in the months before she died. Seven years on, here’s CharacterAI sending emotionally charged prompts to re-engage with depressive teen accounts @mollyroseorg.bsky.social
January 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Yesterday’s announcement from Ofcom was a bitter disappointment and means illegal harm will continue to flourish. Here’s some early thoughts from @mollyroseorg.bsky.social on how we got here, and why the #OnlineSafetyAct needs to be fixed without delay open.substack.com/pub/andyburr...
December 17, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Important and hugely welcome move from the Secretary of State to quickly use his powers under the #OnlineSafetyAct to set Strategic Priorities for Ofcom. This will offer some course correct until new legislation can build upon and fix weaknesses in the framework @mollyroseorg.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 7:14 AM
Big Tech is moving into nuclear power stations. So that’s reassuring.
October 20, 2024 at 10:03 AM