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Paul Bouchaud
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(they/them) Researcher in Algorithmic Auditing, Social Simulation & Evidenced-Based Policymaking | paulbouchaud.com | working with aiforensics.org
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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · Sep 2
Check out our technical report: aiforensics.org/work/agego-p...
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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · Sep 2
Last week, 5 major porn sites rolled out “age verification” in France to comply with regulators.
3 of them — xvideos, xnxx, tnaflix — use AgeGO.
AgeGO:
• Collects the exact video URL before consent
• Sends webcam streams directly to Amazon
• Forces users to give an email via an unskippable step
Diagram of AgeGO's age verification system.
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · Aug 27
They are trying to erase trans people and doing it in the open....
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · Aug 26
The Trump administration directs 40 states, five territories and Washington, D.C. to remove references to transgender people from their sex education programs or risk losing federal funding.
States must ax transgender references from sex ed or risk losing funds, Trump admin says
The mandate comes just days after the Trump administration terminated funding for a sex education program in California.
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Amaury @al.checkfirst.network · Jul 31
I don't even have the words ....
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Antton Rouget @anttonrouget.bsky.social · Jul 3
En 2024 et 2025, une agence pro-Orbán a mené une campagne numérique occulte en faveur du Rassemblement national.

Des dizaines de contenus ont été diffusés sur X sur la base d’un ciblage politique (ce qui est interdit), selon des données de l’ONG @aiforensics.org partagées avec @mediapart.fr. 👇
Une agence pro-Orbán a mené une campagne numérique occulte pour le RN en France
Des contenus ont été diffusés sur le réseau social X en ciblant les internautes sur la base de critères politiques, ce qui est interdit par les réglementations françaises et européennes.
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Sleeping Giants FR @slpng-giants-fr.bsky.social · Jun 28
#BudapestPride

Tout notre soutien aux participants de la #Pride interdite de Budapest ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍

"Another Hungary is Possible" de Laika (artiste hongrois)
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"Another Hungary is Possible" de Laika (artiste hongrois) 2025, dessin sur un mur de Budapest, Orban, habillé en femme (jupe et blazer rose, hauts talons, rouge à lèvres) il porte une cravate aux couleurs trans et tient dans sa main droite un drapeau arc-en-ciel
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Jun 25
New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance

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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature
An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.
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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · Jun 19
Vous pouvez aussi juste déposer les fichiers de pub et rien d'autre ! Aussi si vous mettez votre zip, la décompression se fait dans votre navigateur en local pour y extraire les fichiers de pub. [Le code de la page et ce qui est envoyé et disponible en un clic de manière transparente]
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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · Jun 19
Wanna check if you've been targeted by ads based on sensitive data? Just drop your X portability archive to find out haveibeentargeted.online
Screenshot of the website haveibeentargeted.online displaying the result of the analysis. We observe that the user was served ads based on their inferred similarity with political accounts.
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Amaury @al.checkfirst.network · Jun 18
@paulbouchaud.com uncovered some bizarre targeting options on #X that let advertisers do pretty much whatever they want. Want to exclude #LGBT users or target only #Christians? Apparently, it’s possible and done.

Have you been targeted like this?

👉 aiforensics.org/work/sensiti...
Have I been Targeted?
Have I Been Targeted? is a tool built by AI Forensics that lets you see whether you have been targeted based on your sensitive characteristics on X
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Jun 17
...he says to Signal's president
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Jérémie Iordanoff @iordanoff.bsky.social · Jun 18
X fiche vos opinions politiques, religion, orientation sexuelle, données de santé, origines... Le niveau de laisser faire juste ahurissant. Il est temps de réagir !
X a permis à des annonceurs de cibler leurs publicités en fonction de critères politiques, une pratique interdite
La méthode, proscrite en Europe, sauf à de rares exceptions, par le règlement général sur la protection des données personnelles, reste utilisée, voire encouragée, sur le réseau social d’Elon Musk, ré...
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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · Jun 18
@NetflixFR ran ads excluding users interested in the French far-right party, "FN, Front National, RN"
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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · Jun 18
Similarly, @bp_Deutschland excluded users interested in "trans, transgender, gender transition" from their ads, as well as "al islam, quran, sunni, shiite, shias"
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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · Jun 18
The oil company @TotalEnergies ran over 80 ads shown 86 million times, carefully excluding all users with an interest in Green politicians (Marie Toussaint, Yannick Jadot,...) as well as those interested in "Kosher, Casher, Mahomet"
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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · Jun 18
Through the X Ads repository, mandated by the DSA, we exported the ads run by major companies, and checked their targeting criteria. What we found is concerning:
"Conversation topics" curated by X for advertisers. Among those we find "political affiliation - Rassemblement National" alongside other parties
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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · Jun 18
How X enables major brands to target your most sensitive personal data - from health conditions to political beliefs - check out our new report! aiforensics.org/work/sensiti...
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Pixels | Le Monde @pixelsfr.bsky.social · Jun 18
X a permis à des annonceurs de cibler leurs publicités en fonction de critères politiques, une pratique interdite
X a permis à des annonceurs de cibler leurs publicités en fonction de critères politiques, une pratique interdite
La méthode, proscrite en Europe, sauf rares exceptions, par le règlement général sur la protection des données personnelles, reste utilisée, voire encouragée, sur le réseau social d’Elon Musk, révèle une étude de l’ONG AI Forensics.
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Irénée Régnauld @ireneer.bsky.social · Jun 18
Pratique pour Total qui a financé une campagne de pub invisible aux écolos. Ou encore McDo qui fait sa promo tout en évitant soigneusement les syndicats.

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X a permis à des annonceurs de cibler leurs publicités en fonction de critères politiques, une pratique interdite
La méthode, proscrite en Europe, sauf rares exceptions, par le règlement général sur la protection des données personnelles, reste utilisée, voire encouragée, sur le réseau social d’Elon Musk, révèle ...
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Katy's Shit Cartoons @cartoons.katymontgomerie.com · Jun 7
Sorry everyone, but these are the rules*

*That cis people made up
Chart: Gender critical guide on when to come out as trans Age line along the bottom from 0 - 100. 18 and 25 are highlighted. From 0-25 is labelled: no one this young can know. Social contagion From 18-100 and beyond is labelled: if you didn't come out before now you must not be serious. Transtrender/pervert
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Xavier Brandao @xavierbrandao.bsky.social · May 20
J’ai déposé une plainte contre Facebook auprès de l’Arcom hier, pour manquement à ses obligations liées au Digital Services Act (DSA). La raison : une modération aux abonnés absents, impliquant un potentiel risque systémique.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · May 18
"“The alleged underenforcement of Meta’s monitoring policies cannot give rise to liability,” the co wrote last year in a motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging negligence in removing crypto scams, adding it “does not owe a duty to users” to address fraud on its platforms.

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Meta Battles an ‘Epidemic of Scams’ as Criminals Flood Instagram and Facebook
Fake puppies and phony offers of mouthwatering bargains are often seeded by overseas crime networks; employees say company is reluctant to impede its advertising juggernaut
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · Apr 17
NEW: A secretive surveillance company is building "AI persona" bots for cops intended to gather evidence on people. Personas include "college protesters," "radicalized" divorced moms, children. We have docs that shows how it works and what cops can do with it:

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This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”
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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · Apr 14
Check out our report aiforensics.org/work/meta-he...
Meta's Failing Ad Moderation: Health Scams Targeting EU Users
This report uncovers Meta's systemic failure to moderate health-related scam advertisements. We identified over 46,000 advertisements promoting unapproved drugs and making deceptive health claims that...
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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · Apr 14
"This is a highly adversarial space, we are investing a lot in our detection systems..." Meanwhile, our latest report at @aiforensics.org found Meta reviewed, approved, and displayed fake medicine advertisements over 292 million times to EU users since the DSA took effect.
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