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📖 𝒔𝒍𝒖𝒅𝒈𝒆 (𝒐𝒑𝒑. 𝒏𝒖𝒅𝒈𝒆): 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑟 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒

The DSA requires user-friendly reporting of illegal content. So why the slow, burdensome forms? 🤨

👉 https://www.disinfo.eu/publications/your-report-is-important-to-us-please-overcome-some-unnecessary-barriers-to-submit-it/

Joe Feb 3, 2025

Joe Jan 31, 2025

Themenklau: German political term for stealing your opponents’ policies.
ThemenClown: Cowardly politician who, in panic, rushes to give credibility to his extremist opponents, in the belief this will be a vote winning strategy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jan/31/europe-live-germany-parliament-migration-latest-updates-news

Germany’s parliament rejects radical migration plan – as it happened

Greens and SPD earlier refused to support the Influx Limitation Act amid fierce criticism from Merkel over Merz’s cooperation with AfD

the Guardian

Joe Jan 31, 2025

Germany’s parliament rejects radical migration plan – as it happened

Greens and SPD earlier refused to support the Influx Limitation Act amid fierce criticism from Merkel over Merz’s cooperation with AfD

the Guardian

Joe Jan 20, 2025

Electronic Frontier Foundation Jan 20, 2025

The best way to prevent online ads from fueling surveillance is to ban online behavioral advertising. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/online-behavioral-ads-fuel-surveillance-industry-heres-how

Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry—Here’s How

Each time you see a targeted ad, your personal information is exposed to thousands of advertisers and data brokers through a process called “real-time bidding” (RTB). This process does more than deliver ads—it fuels government surveillance, poses national security risks, and gives data brokers easy access to your online activity. RTB might be the most privacy-invasive surveillance system that you’ve never heard of.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Joe Jan 19, 2025

heise online English Jan 19, 2025

Facebook: Meta makes money with Russian disinformation despite sanctions

A Russian propaganda organization with close ties to the Kremlin has placed over 8,000 political ads on Facebook despite European and US sanctions.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Facebook-Meta-makes-money-with-Russian-disinformation-despite-sanctions-10247978.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Facebook #FakeNews #news

Facebook: Meta makes money with Russian disinformation despite sanctions

A Russian propaganda organization with close ties to the Kremlin has placed over 8,000 political ads on Facebook despite European and US sanctions.

heise online

Joe Jan 10, 2025

EU DisinfoLab Jan 10, 2025

🚨🎥 Join us next week with Victor Ilie (freelance investigative reporter) and Madalina Botan (SNSPA & BROD) to uncover some of the organised #disinformation campaigns that targeted the Romanian social media space ahead of the presidential #elections last November. We’ll also explore how to effectively assess and respond to emerging risks related to elections.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Elections at risk? Disinformation campaigns observed in Romania and the role of the DSA in risk mitigation. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Romania made the headlines at the end of 2024 when journalists revealed multiple attempts from Russia to influence the electoral campaign. In this webinar, our guests will describe some of the organised disinformation campaigns that targeted the Romanian social media space ahead of the presidential elections in November 2024, using influencers to manipulate algorithms in favour of specific candidates. We'll also explore how policy tools like the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Code of Practice can address such systemic risks and discuss actionable steps to effectively assess and respond to emerging risks related to elections. ------------------- The opinions expressed are those of the speakers/authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of EU DisinfoLab. This webinar does not represent an endorsement by EU DisinfoLab of any organisation.

Zoom

Joe Jan 10, 2025

Referring to people, core parts of whose lives must now be lived online, as “users” (as if a realistic choice existed not to “use”) inappropriately downplays the privacy and security harms experienced

Joe Jan 10, 2025

Proto Himbo European Jan 9, 2025

Another take on AI that (at least for now) kinda nails it.

Joe Jan 10, 2025

Michael Veale Jan 9, 2025

Real time bidding and the tracking infrastructure is so toxic & illegal that the firms whose apps embed this code have to pretend to be shocked when resulting data appears in a huge leak from an actor many steps away, with a history of selling to law enforcement https://www.404media.co/candy-crush-tinder-myfitnesspal-see-the-thousands-of-apps-hijacked-to-spy-on-your-location/

Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location

A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.

404 Media

Joe Jan 9, 2025

Alternative list:
1. Paint drying
2. Forrest Gump
3. Der Untergang
4. Das Boot (Director’s cut)
5. Literally anything else
https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-germany-far-right-afd-x-party-donald-trump-eu

Musk’s date with Germany’s far-right chief: 5 things to watch

Elon Musk’s live chat with Alice Weidel of the AfD on X comes as Germany’s national election looms.

POLITICO