Elena Franklin

Campaigner @Amnesty | Digital Rights on social media
Big Tech Accountability @AmnestyTech
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BlueSky: @elenafra.bsky.social

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Ahead of Brazil’s presidential elections, we carried out a social media experiment to test @facebook's moderation of ads containing election-related disinformation. We found moderation weaknesses.

@Amnesty Head of Big Tech Accountability Alia Al Ghussain explains the findings.

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Meta reached an $18 billion settlement with US states over child safety & committed to make design changes to its social media apps.

This is a turning point not just for Meta but all social media. They must fix their harmful features to protect children.

https://t.co/4EYZDE3Yo9

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Ahead of Brazil’s presidential election @amnesty submitted @facebook ads, to test @Meta's moderation system but with no intention of publishing them. Over half of the disinformation ads were accepted, while the rest were rejected but not directly for containing disinformation.

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The fact that @Meta's moderation system failed to catch more than half of @amnesty election-related disinformation ads shows that @Meta is not doing enough to prevent its platform from being a vector of disinformation.

https://t.co/oBoRgXU4g3

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The UK Supreme Court has rejected Bahrain's bid to block a UK lawsuit brought by two activists over alleged spyware use. The ruling should serve as a signal that states may no longer be able to hide behind claims of sovereign immunity.

https://t.co/Rct3wxYmWL

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🚨NEWS: The EU's Special Panel on Child Safety Online is right to recommend further action to tackle the harmful design of social media platforms, emphasizing the need for children to participate in a safe online environment.
https://t.co/3GUaCEYbXu

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The inaugural Global Dialogue on AI is underway in Geneva as children are adopting AI technologies more than three times faster than adults, yet many of these systems were never designed with their rights and wellbeing in mind. Governments must protect children’s rights.

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New @Citizenlab findings show how @SteliosKoul’s phone was hacked with Pegasus spyware while he was serving on @Europarl_EN committee investigating spyware use in Europe. If an EU lawmaker can be brazenly targeted, then none of is safe from surveillance.

https://t.co/TPQBjh3MnR

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Yesterday @EUCouncil formally adopted amendments to EU AI Act, completing a process civil society called on lawmakers to reject. They didn’t listen.
#AIOmnibus

https://t.co/ylbg3wNMYV

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Governments are planning to introduce social media bans for children & young people.

@amnesty brought together a group of young people in Kenya to discuss their experiences online & how they feel about these proposals.

This is what they told us 👇

https://t.co/gWwN1CNy19

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UK government’s decision to ban children & young people under 16 from accessing social media is a case of the right diagnosis but the wrong prescription. The remedy to social media harms is regulation not exclusion.

https://t.co/6y4mGNYDf2

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🚨An investigation by @LHreports exposes how an algorithm introduced by the Kenyan government is causing lower-income Kenyans to systematically overpay for their healthcare.
https://t.co/xe7rV2DSQN

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RightsCon was due to start today in Lusaka, Zambia & online. It’s postponement is a clear sign of a growing & dangerous pattern of Chinese authorities abusing their power & influence over other governments to silence dissent and restrict open dialogue.

https://t.co/iaAvGdPrKs

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The @EU_Commission launched a drive to simplify existing EU laws on artificial intelligence (AI) & data protection to ostensibly “boost competitiveness” and “cut red tape.” At stake here are rules that protect us on and offline.

https://t.co/72t2wgzuaA

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🚨@Amnesty supports the latest briefing by @Medact (an organization bringing together health workers in the UK) urging hospitals to not use Palantir software, demanding that NHS (National Health Services) England cancels the contract entirely. https://t.co/5s8xHKThae

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🚨 "I have no doubt the internet killed my daughter."

The words of Ian Russell, the father of Molly, a British teenage girl who took her own life after exposure to harmful content giving a eulogy in a film about her life released today by @Channel4.

https://t.co/Je1eFWfChd

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.@Amnesty & 27 other NGOs are calling on @EU_Commission to robustly enforce existing laws #DMA #DSA #GDPR to regulate Big Tech companies rather than watering them down. Weak enforcement allows these companies to continue its damaging practices at the cost of fundamental rights

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🚨 A Greek court has convicted four people linked to spyware maker, Intellexa, for illegally accessing private communications.

This landmark ruling should signal the end of impunity in the surveillance industry.

https://t.co/rYEkkLnZW8

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🚨 "I feel naked.”

A new @Amnesty investigation has established that prominent Angolan journalist Teixeira Cândido, was targeted with Intellexa’s Predator spyware in 2024.

This is the first forensic confirmation of its use in Angola.

https://t.co/3P9wkOi1vi

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Uganda has suspended internet services ahead of tomorrow’s election on information & national security grounds. This digital darkness can be used to hide serious human rights violations against opponents. Authorities must end all internet restrictions.

https://t.co/4WXOgRrsS0