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Amy King (she/they)
@amy-king.bsky.social
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"talentless wordmangler" - someone on twitter
expert in linguistic violence online researching digital hate and misinformation
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amy-king.bsky.social
Starting soon!!! 👇👇
techpolicy.bsky.social PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · Nov 14
💥Upcoming event! 💥"The Politics of Platform Regulation"
🕒 2 Dec @ 3-4:15pm GMT

Join us in our discussion w Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca to talk about his recent book on "how governments shape online content moderation" + strategies to combat harmful content

Sign up 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...
December 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Bit late to this but it's such a clever piece of AI criticism, developing a literary critique of Sam Altman's auto-metafiction story as a way to explore the grave threats to the "intellectual infrastructure" of the humanities - and HE more broadly - posed by AI lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...
Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.
lareviewofbooks.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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corporadiscourse.bsky.social
🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal.... Please share widely! #CADS2026
Call for Papers – Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026
wp.lancs.ac.uk
September 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
amy-king.bsky.social
NEW: ChatGPT-5's "safe completions" are a misnomer, generating MORE harmful content than ChatGPT-4o and prioritising prolonged user engagement over redirection or refusing to respond to harmful prompts and reduce the risk of users' exposure to harms.

counterhate.com/wp-content/u...
October 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
*PSA EVENT* 📢 Final Call for Papers📢 'Navigating #Digital #Democracy' joint annual conference by PSA #Media & #Politics Group and #Technology, Information & #Policy Specialist Groups @psampg.bsky.social @techpolicy.bsky.social
📆 Paper Proposals by 26 September
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PSA TIP x Media and Politics - Navigating Digital Democracy | The Political Studies Association (PSA)
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September 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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leelum.bsky.social
🚨Navigating Digital Democracy Conf– 8-9 Jan, Bournemouth.

The MPG x TIP conference is going to be ace 😍 & I strongly recommend submitting an abstract.

Topics relating to the core areas of @psampg.bsky.social & @techpolicy.bsky.social are welcome.

www.bournemouth.ac.uk/navigating-d...
Navigating Digital Democracy Conference – BU’s Media School
You are warmly invited to submit papers for presentation at the joint annual conference of the Political Studies Association’s Media and Politics Group (MPG) & Technology, Information and Policy Group (TIP).
www.bournemouth.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
amy-king.bsky.social
the introduction of The Force of Nonviolence by Judith Butler (2020) is screamingly relevant today
What starts, then, as an apparently moral argument about whether to be for or against violence quickly turns into a debate about how violence is defined and who is called “violent”—and for what purposes. When a group assembles to oppose censorship or the lack of democratic freedoms, and the group is called a “mob,” or is understood as a chaotic or destructive threat to the social order, then the group is both named and figured as potentially or actually violent, at which point the state can issue a justification to defend society against this violent threat. When what follows is imprisonment, injury, or killing, the violence in the scene emerges as state violence. We can name state violence as “violent” even though it has used its own power to name and to represent the dissenting power of some group of people as “violent.” Similarly, a peaceful demonstration such as that which took place in Gezi Park in Istanbul in 2013,5 or a letter calling for peace such as the one signed by many Turkish scholars in 2016,6 can be effectively figured and represented as a “violent” act only if the state either has its own media or exercises sufficient control over the media. Under such conditions, exercising rights of assembly is called a manifestation of “terrorism,” which, in turn, calls down the state censor, clubbing and spraying by the police, termination of employment, indefinite detention, imprisonment, and exile.
September 22, 2025 at 11:24 AM
amy-king.bsky.social
I'm really looking forward to this! Get your abstracts in - deadline is next Friday (26th September)
techpolicy.bsky.social PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · Sep 19
Reminder! ⚠️ The deadline to submit your abstract and/or panel to our joint conference "Navigating Digital Democracy" with @psampg.bsky.social is fast approaching! ⌛ Full details on the CfP, with info on the topics for consideration, fees and prizes here 👉 www.bournemouth.ac.uk/navigating-d...
September 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
amy-king.bsky.social
I saw a post recently about speculative futures of generative AI - it looked brilliant but I forgot to save it for later 🫠 anyone able to help a gal out?
September 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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leyawn.bsky.social
rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat
jwherrman.bsky.social John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · Aug 19
just checking in with one of the most influential philosophers alive today
August 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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counterhate.com
Meta’s VR platforms are not safe – especially for women & minors.

Our research found abuse in the metaverse every 7 minutes, including graphic sexual content & threats of violence.

Who would feel safe in a space like that?

Our research in Marie Claire ⤵️
www.marieclaire.com.au/news/ai-miso...
The Dark Side of AI: Where Women Can’t Say No
When Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, decided to investigate the world of artificial intelligence, she was shocked to find that generative AI is helping create a world where misogy...
www.marieclaire.com.au
August 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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mmitchell.bsky.social
🤖 What many already knew. Helpful proof, reporting, documentation from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social: Meta allowing sensual roleplay with kids, promoting discrimination, giving false medical info. But listen, there's a tech PR trick I need to draw your attention to here. 🧵
www.reuters.com/investigates...
Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with children
An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.
www.reuters.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
amy-king.bsky.social
The results of this report are incredibly sobering.

We really need to be talking more about the dark side of ChatGPT and its kin - the corporations' desire for "relatable" chatbots is leading to incredibly harmful outputs framed as "non-judgemental" or even helpful and well-sourced.
counterhate.com Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · Aug 6
TW: Suicide, self-harm, substance abuse & eating disorders

Our new report shows that ChatGPT is exploiting teens' vulnerabilities & betraying them - with potentially deadly consequences.

AI companies must take safety seriously. More in ABC News⤵️
abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...
August 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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techpolicy.bsky.social
⚡ Big news! ⚡ We're thrilled to announce that are teaming up with @psampg.bsky.social to host our *first* joint conference on "Navigating Digital Democracy" 📩 at Bournemouth University on 8-9 Jan, with an online pre-conf session on the 7 Jan - submission deadline is the 26 Sep more details in 🧵
July 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New from 404 Media: a second data breach at Tea has exposed more than a million direct messages between users that we obtained. Discussions of abortions, cheating. The other data was older. This is as recent as *last week*. Hard to overstate how sensitive this data is www.404media.co/a-second-tea...
A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating
The more than one million messages obtained by 404 Media are as recent as last week, discuss incredibly sensitive topics, and make it trivial to unmask some anonymous Tea users.
www.404media.co
July 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
amy-king.bsky.social
Really really delighted to share that I passed my viva yesterday with minor corrections!!!!!!

I celebrated last night surrounded by dear friends and my parents. It truly takes a village to raise a doctor, but this pair gave me a solid foundation to build that village on.
July 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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counterhate.com
🚨NEW: We found that YouTube continues to enable & profit from videos featuring Andrew Tate’s extreme misogyny, despite having banned his YouTube account.

We analyzed 100 of the most-viewed videos on YouTube featuring Tate’s misogyny.

Here’s what we found 🧵 www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
YouTube ‘still profits from Andrew Tate misogyny’ after ban
The influencer’s videos have amassed nearly 54 million views and adverts from big brands appearing with his content
www.thetimes.com
June 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
amy-king.bsky.social
Anyone read Ofcom's new report "Experiences of engaging with the manosphere"? Just starting to pick through it now but would love to know people's thoughts

www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/experiences-of-engaging-with-the-manosphere
www.ofcom.org.uk
June 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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rebekahtromble.bsky.social
The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone.

So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment.

It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/

expertvoicestogether.org
May 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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counterhate.com
💊 Incels' toxic ideology can radicalize young men & lead to real-world violence.

Our newest findings show that the world’s largest incel forum has nearly DOUBLED since our 2022 report on the Incelosphere.

It’s time for policymakers to intervene.

Learn more ⤵️
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The world's largest incel forum reacts to Netflix’s Adolescence with hate and conspiracies
CCDH's new research shows that the world's largest incel forum responded to Netflix's 'Adolescence' with misogyny, racism, and antisemitism.
buff.ly
May 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
amy-king.bsky.social
I kinda forgot this account exists BUT I submitted my PhD thesis last month! and my viva date was confirmed this morning! it's happening!!!!
May 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
amy-king.bsky.social
This afternoon I presented my PhD thesis to Napier's Centre for Arts, Media and Culture at a seminar generously and expertly chaired by @keeblearin.bsky.social

It's getting ever so real now, but the event was full of supportive comments and engaging questions. Now to finish redrafts!
January 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM