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leeam332.bsky.social
research & advocacy consultant & doctoral student at Rutgers SC&I. previously Oxfam / Norwegian Refugee Council / HRW, now mostly human rights & tech in the global south
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submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

So there’s a protest tomorrow in front of the US district court in manhattan to express support for Sassoon’s courage and call on Hochul to remove Adams, right… right?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

My compilation of what you can do to fight the Trump agenda www.headsupnews.org/p/what-you-c...

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election. She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”

submitted 18 days ago • 207 comments

When I worked for Oxfam in South Sudan, we used Fewsnet data all the time to understand and explain the food security situation in the country. This is devastating.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

submitted 24 days ago • 58 comments

Someone should write about how tech people became (or acquiesced to) anti-science

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

From my reading list 👀 "Platforms that removed only content that could be made illegal would rapidly become unusable, mired in spam, porn, harassment, and other graphic but not unlawful speech." Evelyn Douek in 2022

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

I took a shot at decoding Peter Thiel’s strange conspiratorial rankings for @techpolicypress.bsky.social. Short version: the tech billionaires are getting pumped to deploy the U.S. government to stop any *other* government regulating tech companies. www.techpolicy.press/peter-thiel-...

submitted 36 days ago • 13 comments

With the repeal of the AI exec order, the Trump admin has rescinded an effort to regulate new tech for the public good, protect Americans against violations of their rights & liberties when AI is in use, and build the governmental muscle to ensure that AI serves all Americans. 1/4

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Community Notes needs Journalism. Here's some scientific evidence for it @andyzhao.bsky.social and I provided last year in the Journal of Online Trust & Safety where we looked at the dynamics of Cofacts, the Taiwanese crowdsourced fact-checked community: www.tsjournal.org/index.php/jo...

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

submitted 45 days ago • 900 comments

Content moderation on private platforms is imperfect, but the reflexive use of “censorship” in this Zuck statement — a word rendered meaningless by a right-wing propaganda campaign that saw moderating as disadvantaging them — is a purely political statement.

submitted 46 days ago • 14 comments

Important thing that is not discussed enough ⬇️ the significant funding FB was giving to fact checking organizations, including in the global south. Community notes are made possible by free labor. Platforms continue to shirk any responsibility for the harm resulting from the algorithms they design.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

One of the things we all really need from platform T&S teams — honest, authentic, human conversations about the impossible tradeoffs involved in this work — is made effectively impossible by the deranged ways a small number of people treat platform staff when they speak publicly. Ask me how I know.

submitted 74 days ago • 32 comments

While I have FOMO missing this year's #NCA2024 conference, you can catch many of my brilliant colleagues at #NCA over the next few days There are too many to name them all, but here's a short list of Rutgers students and faculty presenting on **top panels**. You won't want to miss these!

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

My last tweet was posted on December 3, 2022, when it became clear that Elon was letting the Nazis run rampant. Just sayin'...

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments