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Xavier Brandao
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Tech, activisme, haine et désinformation, société civile, responsabilité des grandes plateformes, droits numériques, et autres. Cofondateur de #jesuislà.
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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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corporateeurope.org
🎁 Just before the holidays, the EU Commission granted Big Tech its Christmas wish-list: an unprecedented attack on our digital rights.

Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we have mapped how the Digital Omnibus closely matches Big Tech lobby demands.

👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...
Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU’s roll-back of digital rights | Corporate Europe Observatory
In a new analysis we trace Big Tech's fingerprints on the Digital Omnibus proposals - a major deregulation of EU digital laws including the GDPR and the AI Act. They are helped in this attempt by the ...
corporateeurope.org
January 14, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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everyonehateselon.bsky.social
Elon Musk’s X is helping people create indecent images of KIDS. His response to outcry this week? He doesn’t give a f*ck.

Imagine his face if millions get the f*ck off of X though. Join millions deleting their accounts.

Link in bio to download this poster for free and spread this worldwide.
A London bus stop that says "who the fuck would want to use social media with a built in child abuse tool"?
January 13, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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katiaroux.bsky.social
L'Assemblée nationale vient d'adopter en vote solennel le projet de loi JOP 2030.

Malgré les risques pour les droits humains, le texte prévoit la reconduction du dispositif de vidéosurveillance algorithmique prévu par la loi JOP 2024 jusqu’à fin 2027.

Pour rappel 👇
www.amnesty.fr/liberte-d-ex...
JO 2024 : Pourquoi la vidéosurveillance algorithmique pose problème
À l’occasion des Jeux Olympiques de Paris, un outil de surveillance intrusif va se déployer dans nos rues : la vidéosurveillance algorithmique (VSA). Un dispositif inquiétant, rendu légal par la loi J...
www.amnesty.fr
January 13, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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science4all.org
Yesterday, an #OpenReview vulnerability led to the leak of reviewer identities of all the major academic AI conferences, including the ongoing #ICLR2026 conferences. #ICLRLeaks

This is both a huge disaster, and an opportunity to tackle the serious flaws of AI research.
eu.36kr.com/en/p/3572028...
Academic Circle in Uproar: ICLR Reviewers Reveal Identities, Low Scores Given by Friends
True Open Review: Unveiling Transparent and Authentic Evaluations
eu.36kr.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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iamhereus.bsky.social
Democracy vs authoritarian surveillance: www.salon.com/2025/11/21/h...

Standing for democracy and opposing fascism is both essential and non-partisan. So is standing up to neo-McCarthyism.
How Trump’s National Security memo targets political dissent - Salon.com
Critics say the NSPM-7 policy is a "frontal assault" on First Amendment rights
www.salon.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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whattofix.tech
X just unveiled a new feature, letting users know which country an account is being managed from.

Unsurprisingly, many large accounts (MAGA or otherwise) don't appear to match their self-description 🤔
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
xavierbrandao.bsky.social
L'Europe est à un tournant. Deux pétitions à signer pour demander à @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu de défendre les citoyens plutôt que de servir les intérêts des barons de la Tech.
@wemoveeurope.bsky.social, @avaaz.org az.org, @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social
peoplevsbig.tech/standupursula/
November 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
xavierbrandao.bsky.social
A l'heure du Digital Services Act, il est absurde que les grandes plateformes ne disent même pas quels sont leurs posts les plus viraux. Une pétition de @mozilla.org et @algorithmwatch.org demande plus de transparence.
www.mozillafoundation.org/en/campaigns...
Demand the Data: What’s Really Going Viral? | Mozilla Foundation
Social media platforms aren’t sharing what goes viral on their sites. Tell YouTube, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, and X to disclose their most-viewed content. Sign now.
www.mozillafoundation.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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politico.eu
The European Commission will unveil a “digital omnibus” package later this month to simplify many of its tech laws.

The draft document we’ve obtained shows EU officials are planning far-reaching changes to the GDPR to benefit AI developers.

🔗 www.politico.eu/article/brus... 
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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noyb.eu
🗞️ "The European Commission is apparently planning a reform of the #GDPR. Max Schrems and noyb are highly critical of the proposal. The plans would 'throw 40 years of European fundamental #rights doctrine out the window.'" 🇪🇺 (from German)

👉 Read more: netzpolitik.org/2025/trumpsc...
„Trumpsche Gesetzgebungspraktiken“: Max Schrems kritisiert Grundrechte-Kahlschlag
Die Europäische Kommission plant offenbar eine DSGVO-Reform mit der Abrissbirne. Der Datenschutzexperte Max Schrems und die Organisation noyb lassen kein gutes Haar an dem Vorschlag, den wir veröffentlichten. Die Pläne würden
netzpolitik.org
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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krisshrishak.bsky.social
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.

@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed

www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
xavierbrandao.bsky.social
How to get rid (at least temporarily) of these annoying AI overviews when doing a Google search?
Add something like -AI at the end of the search query.
www.pcmag.com/how-to/i-fig...
I Figured Out How to Limit Google's AI Overviews. You're Welcome
There's no official way to turn off Google's AI-generated search results completely, but these tricks can help you see them less often.
www.pcmag.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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corporateeurope.org
📢 As the EU's deregulation agenda rolls out the red carpet for corporate interests, our new study shows that the tech industry has ramped up its lobby power:

💰 Lobby spending hits a record €151 million
🕴 Almost 900 tech lobbyists
🤝 Big Tech has lobby 3 meetings a day

@lobbycontrol.bsky.social
Big Tech lobby budgets hit record levels | Corporate Europe Observatory
New figures show that the digital industry as a whole is now spending €151 million a year on lobbying the EU, a major increase to what was already considerable firepower.
corporateeurope.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social
👀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
September 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social
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
September 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
xavierbrandao.bsky.social
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
www.youtube.com
September 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
xavierbrandao.bsky.social
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.
johnnyryan.bsky.social 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.
August 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
xavierbrandao.bsky.social
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.
cwarzel.bsky.social 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
August 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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kobihackenburg.bsky.social
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! 

🧵:
July 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
this is the very technology orgs like the UN is adopting to "solve" gender inequity
amydiehl.bsky.social 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.
thenextweb.com
July 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
xavierbrandao.bsky.social
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.
July 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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coricrider.com
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
July 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
xavierbrandao.bsky.social
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.
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...
July 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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europeanjournalists.org
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
June 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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algorithmwatch.org
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'.
June 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM