It’s also time that platforms offer researchers meaningful access to algorithmic data to study amplification and monetization — both still opaque, and in need of greater scrutiny.

Read the full report: tinyurl.com/yf53jhn6

These findings reinforce what we already know: dis- and misinformation are profitable commodities for platforms built around engagement. While YouTube must adopt a policy to tackle climate disinfo, TikTok must do more to enforce its existing one. 👇

Beyond accuracy + fairness:

• AgeVerif shares a director with tukif and reference-sexe
• The system can be bypassed by simply adding a cookie 🙃

If a VPN or cookie can defeat it in seconds, are we really protecting kids — or are we expanding biometric risk at scale?

Key findings on AgeVerif:

• Only ~7% minors in the training data → ~1 in 10 minors still get through
• Black representation is extremely low (~6%) → higher misclassification for darker-skinned minors
• Age thresholds shift arbitrarily: 20 🇫🇷 / 25 🇩🇪 / 23 elsewhere
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⚠️ As TikTok becomes a key space for political engagement, users should know which narratives are amplified—and which might be downplayed.

🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/rbfjkfmu

Full report: aiforensics.org/work/gen-ai-...

Platforms acknowledge AI as DSA risk but aren't acting on it.

www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/ai-...

@cdt.org , Entropy, European Digital Rights (Edri), @freiheitsrechte.org @globalwitness.org @panoptykon.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social @voxpublic.bsky.social

💡 Silver lining: X's transparency exposed what other platforms may hide. We're calling on Instagram, TikTok, and others to match this level of disclosure.

📊 The scale is massive: These ads generated hundreds of millions of impressions across the EU, creating a system where your most personal characteristics determine what information you see.

It's algorithmic discrimination at industrial scale.

🌍 DISCRIMINATORY TARGETING: Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund excluded users based on:
• Ethnicity (#Blacks, #Niger)
• Sexual orientation (#gay, #lesbian)
• Faith (#Jewish, #Jews)

🏛️ Even worse: EU institutions violated their own rules. The European Commission illegally targeted citizens using political data—confirmed by the European Data Protection Supervisor after a complaint by @noybeu.bsky.social

💊 HEALTH TARGETING: Dell Technologies targeted users with specific medication names like "Sertraline," "Diazepam," and "Gabapentine".

McDonald's excluded users based on mental health terms like "suicidal" and "depressed."

Your medical data = their marketing advantage.

🗳️ Political Targeting: from TotalEnergies excluding users interested in Green politicians and environmental activists to Netflix or Société Générale that excludes those interested in French far-right party.

Compared to Meta, X is more transparent in the targeting parameters used for advertisings, and such disclosure, mandated by the DSA, reveals how the platform actively enables discriminatory advertisings.

We analyzed X's Ads Repository and discovered that **X's allowed widespread targeting of users over "sensitive categories" protected under EU law.