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Xavier Brandao @xavierbrandao.bsky.social · 20d

C'est effrayant. Qu'est-ce qui peut être fait pour éviter que Bolloré ne rachète et détruise tout ?

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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social · 20d

👀Is that EU competition chief @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu taking a hammer to break up Google??

Today we're sending a loud message to @ec.europa.eu to dismantle Google's toxic advertising monopoly! #BreakUpBigTech. Great work @lobbyctrl-tech.bsky.social bsky.social @rebalance-now.bsky.social 👏👏👏

Protestors in Brussels call for the EU to Break Up Google

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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social · Sep 5

Google's monopoly power rips off consumers, pollutes our information environment, and destroys the news media.

Today's €2.95 billion fine is a start, but won't touch Google's toxic ad-tech monopoly. The EU @ec.europa.eu must hold firm and now break up Google. www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

EU slaps Google with €2.95B fine despite Trump trade threat

Brussels hammers U.S. search giant after internal Commission feud.

www.politico.eu

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Xavier Brandao @xavierbrandao.bsky.social · Sep 4

Face aux explications pointues et sourcées de @monsieurphi.bsky.social, François Sorel a choisi son camp : celui du copinage, de l’argument d’autorité, de l’entre-soi complaisant. Ce n’est même pas du journalisme cette séquence. Elle est révélatrice d’un mal profond touchant les médias audiovisuels.

Xavier Brandao @xavierbrandao.bsky.social · Sep 4

Cette séquence est un naufrage. C’est le naufrage de Luc Julia d’abord, empêtré dans ses justifications hasardeuses, et c’est surtout le naufrage journalistique et déontologique de BFMTV.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKeF...

Luc Julia face à Monsieur Phi - Tech&Co la quotidienne du 01/09/2025

YouTube video by Tech & Co

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Xavier Brandao @xavierbrandao.bsky.social · Aug 26

Comme le dit @johnnyryan.bsky.social, l'Europe doit résister, ou périr. Chaque renoncement face à Trump serait un clou dans notre cercueil. Le Digital Services Act est l'une des lois pouvant défendre nos démocraties européennes. Protégeons-la et employons-la.

Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · Aug 26

The EU must use the anti coercion instrument now, or be humiliated. Europe must be free to enforce its own law on its own soil.

Xavier Brandao @xavierbrandao.bsky.social · Aug 20

This is spot on. This AI frenzy and madness gives such an eerie feeling. AI is forced upon us at every opportunity as big tech companies try to bag as many billions as possible from venture capital before the music stops. But the environmental and societal damage will be massive and long-lasting.

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

www.theatlantic.com

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Kobi Hackenburg @kobihackenburg.bsky.social · Jul 21

Today (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19  LLMs, 707 political issues.

We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more!

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Jul 21

this is the very technology orgs like the UN is adopting to "solve" gender inequity

Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · Jul 20

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds

A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

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Xavier Brandao @xavierbrandao.bsky.social · Jul 10

This is outrageous. Full support to @abeba.bsky.social. Dr Birhane's speech “AI for social good: the new face of technosolutionism” was apparently too grounded in reality in this tide of technosolutionism at the "AI for good" summit, which frankly looked like a tech fair.

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Jul 10

thebulletin.org/2025/07/ai-f...

AI for good, with caveats: How a keynote speaker was censored during an international artificial intelligence summit

Q&A with Abeba Birhane on how she was censored during the AI for good summit and how the industry can do better.

thebulletin.org

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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · Jul 3

New poll shows huge majorities of Europeans--74% of Von Der Leyen's own CDU--want a tough stance on Big Tech.

This is no time to roll over. Tech is vital infrastructure, and it can be ours again--with a three-part play:

Break, build, enforce.

w/ @robin.berjon.com: www.politico.eu/article/digi...

Digital sovereignty can’t be bargained away

The European Commission has tools, public support and a mandate to act on Big Tech. Trading that away for short-term calm would be a costly mistake.

www.politico.eu

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Xavier Brandao @xavierbrandao.bsky.social · Jul 3

La majorité des citoyens Français, Allemands, et Espagnols souhaite que les géants de la tech soient davantage régulés, avec deux fois plus de personnes qui sont pour leur démantèlement que de personnes contre, d'après un nouveau sondage YouGov commandé par @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social.

People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social · Jul 3

🚨 NEW POLL: roughly TWICE as many people in France, Germany & Spain want the EU to break up Big Tech giants, as those who don't.

@ec.europa.eu will soon decide whether to dismantle Google's toxic adtech monopoly. Will it listen to EU citizens and #BreakUpBigTech?

peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...

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Xavier Brandao @xavierbrandao.bsky.social · Jun 26

Yikes

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European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) @efjeurope.bsky.social · Jun 26

In this letter, EFJ, @cdteu.bsky.social and other civil society organisations express their grave concerns about the continued unchecked use of #spyware within the European Union. We call for urgent and coordinated EU action to ensure the protection of the rule of law and fundamental rights.

Open letter: Recent spyware abuse cases require urgent EU action

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joined CDT Europe and 11 civil society and journalists organisations, all members of the Spyware ...

europeanjournalists.org

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AlgorithmWatch @algorithmwatch.org · Jun 25

Facial recognition as allowed by Hungarian laws is a form of mass surveillance⚠️

👉 Sign the petition from @algorithmwatch.org, EDRi, @ecnl.bsky.social, HCLU & @liberties.eu to support:

➡️an enforcement of existing laws &
➡️an end to face recognition in public spaces.

👉 algorithmwatch.org/sign

A crowd at Budapest Pride parade 2015 is shown with pixelated faces, holding rainbow flags and umbrellas. A large surveillance camera graphic hovers over the scene, with a white targeting frame around a person in the crowd. Text in the center reads: '#PrideWithPrid: Ban biometric identification in public places!' followed by the link: 'algorithmwatch.org/sign'.

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Xavier Brandao @xavierbrandao.bsky.social · Jun 20

Meta finance les propagandistes RT et Sputnik via ses programmes de monétisation, au mépris des sanctions européennes, d'après un rapport de @whattofix.tech

WHAT TO FIX @whattofix.tech · Jun 20

[🚨 Exclusive] Our latest investigation finds that Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. may have violated EU sanctions and channeled money to RT, Sputnik and other EU-sanctioned entities.

You read that right: Facebook *pays* some content publishers.

Read full report → www.whattofix.tech/publications... /🧵

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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social · Jun 18

🚨 Today we're sending a loud message to the EU to stand up to the tech oligarchy and #BreakUpBigTech! 📣📣

We've delivered a petition from +115,000 people calling on @ec.europa.eu @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu to break up Google, ahead of its major ruling on Google's toxic online advertising monopoly.

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Xavier Brandao @xavierbrandao.bsky.social · Jun 16

Il y a d'inquiétants conflits d'intérêts et liens avec Big Tech chez des chercheurs français... www.franceinfo.fr/societe/educ...

ENQUÊTE. Écrans et enfants : quand la recherche publique flirte avec les intérêts privés

La cellule investigation de Radio France a enquêté sur la stratégie des start-ups du numérique mais aussi des GAFAM pour faire rentrer les écrans à l’école.

www.franceinfo.fr

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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social · Jun 4

Instagram suspended @eswa-network.bsky.social without warning or explanation, on the eve of Int'l Sex Workers’ Rights Day. This was unacceptable censorship of a human rights network. Even though the account has now been reinstated, it should never have been suspended in the first place.

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · Jun 4

When it comes to LLMs, this is the only question that matters. And it’s an issue that can’t be engineered away, because LLMs’ correlation-based epistemology is fundamentally incompatible with scientific-based reasoning.
It can be ignored, however. Which has tended to be the default position.

Jax @jax225.bsky.social · Jun 3

Every time someone tells me they use AI to summarize books or articles for them I ask, how do you know it was accurate? What if it’s not? How would you know? And they seem to have not thought about this risk at all.

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Thibault Prévost @wnstnsmith.bsky.social · Jun 3

"The provision in question is styled as a 10-year moratorium on AI regulations by states. It looks like an AI lobbyist’s wish list. But it actually applies to any meaningful use of a computer in any context. The enforcement of any state civil law regarding the use of a computer will be in jeopardy."

The Big Beautiful Bill Could Decimate Legal Accountability for Tech and Anything Tech Touches | TechPolicy.Press

To understand how the so-called “AI moratorium” will destroy state laws and the internet, consider the literal meaning of its text, writes David Brody.

www.techpolicy.press

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Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · May 26

If your business cannot prosper without breaking the law, then it is not a business. It is organized crime.

Like those dependent on slavery, child labor, or wage theft, it should go out of business as soon as possible.

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Xavier Brandao @xavierbrandao.bsky.social · May 23

Un article de Next sur ma plainte contre Facebook avec le DSA
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Seulement 6,8 % de contenus haineux modérés : Xavier Brandao attaque Meta devant l’Arcom - Next

En s’appuyant sur le Digital Services Act, Xavier Brandao a porté plainte contre Meta pour défaut de modération Constatant le très faible taux de modération de contenus haineux sur Facebook, le cofond...

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Xavier Brandao @xavierbrandao.bsky.social · May 20

Il s’agit de commentaires antisémites, islamophobes, racistes, sexistes, transphobes… qui sont donc parfaitement acceptables pour Facebook.

En voici quelques exemples (trigger warning, ces commentaires peuvent être choquants).

Commentaire haineux : "Ben ya les hommes ,les femmes et les trucs maintenant"

Commentaire haineux : "Encore un mohamed"

Commentaire haineux : "ils valent mieux que tous ces bonobos"

Commentaire haineux : "un commentaire d'africain n'a aucune valeur"

Xavier Brandao @xavierbrandao.bsky.social · May 20

Facebook peut mettre des jours à réagir. Parfois, le refus arrive, automatiquement semble-t-il, dans la minute. Fidèle à son opacité habituelle, jamais Facebook ne fournit de raison à ces décisions.

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