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Adele Zeynep Walton

@adelewalton.bsky.social
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Author, online safety campaigner, journalist, hater of tech bros. www.adelesnotes.co.uk

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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
It was great to speak to @aljazeera.com about #Zuckerberg testifying in front of a jury last week, in a watershed moment for holding big tech to account. www.youtube.com/watch?si=HyU...
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Social media giants must be held accountable for youth mental health harms, analyst warns
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
MollyVsTheMachines tells the story of 14 year old Molly Russell and her dad's fight to take on Big Tech, after she died as a result of online harms. I'm honoured to be introducing the film this Sunday at Rio Cinema and Picturehouse Finsbury Park. Tickets here: mollyvsthemachines.com/cinema-tickets
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Everyone Hates Elon @everyonehateselon.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Right now billionaires are heading to Davos conference with Trump to talk about solutions to problems THEY created. 8 men own 50% of all wealth, yet they point the finger at immigrants and trans people. Billionaires: YOU’RE the problem. Just SHUT UP AND PAY YOUR TAX
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Logging Off Club has a website so you can easily start your own or find your local club 📍 🌎 Go and check it out, and join the club! www.loggingoffclub.com
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Really looking forward to speaking alongside @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social and @couldrynick.bsky.social at this event! 17 March, London 📍 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reclaiming...
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Reclaiming Our Social Lives: A Call For Solidarity Vs Big Tech.
Reclaiming Our Social Lives: A Call For Solidarity Vs Big Tech.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 04/02/2026
Read in full and subscribe to the Nerve’s twice-weekly newsletter: www.thenerve.news/p/adele-walt...
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I confronted a tech boss about my sister’s suicide. I don’t know why I bothered
Aimee died at 21 after going on a notorious self-harm forum. But when I approached a tech CEO to talk about online safety at a Davos debate, I was threatened with removal, writes Adele Walton
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 04/02/2026
Adele Walton’s sister Aimee died at 21 after going on a notorious self-harm forum. But when Adele approached a tech CEO to talk about online safety at a Davos debate, she was threatened with removal @adelewalton.bsky.social for the Nerve on why it matters when tech companies do not show humanity👇🔗
Picture of Adele Walton with the text: “I confronted a tech boss about my sister’s suicide. I don’t know why I bothered”
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The Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Take action 👇 🧵 @adelewalton.bsky.social has renewed calls for a public inquiry into a pro-suicide website responsible for 133 UK victims lives.
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🔐 Prevent Online Suicide Harms 🔐
Journalist and author Adele Walton has renewed calls for a public inquiry into a pro-suicide website responsible for 133 UK victims lives.
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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social · 10/12/2025
@crtl-alt-reclaimfr.bsky.social started out as a small bootcamp in Summer'24 - bringing together young people from around Europe who wanted to do something about the harm that social media was doing to young lives. Now it’s a pan-European movement, see Guardian: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
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‘Don’t pander to the tech giants!’ How a youth movement for digital justice is spreading across Europe
Gen Z are the first generation to have grown up with social media, they were the earliest adopters, and therefore the first to suffer its harms. Now they are fighting back
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/09/2025
Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault
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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
For those on the Right, free speech means the freedom to spread misinformation, fear, and hatred without being held to account. Read @adelewalton.bsky.social on the UK Online Safety Act.
tribunemag.co.uk
Redefining Free Speech
The UK Online Safety Act aims to protect people online. Could the legislation reinstate the principles of free speech and preserve democratic debate?
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I wrote about my thoughts on Instagram’s repost feature. It’s a smart and sinister move to keep us hooked at a time when posting on social media platforms feels too icky. loggingoffclub.substack.com/p/new-instag...
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Marlborough LitFest @marlboroughlitfest.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Don't miss some fabulous poetry and non-fiction events covering a wealth of topics this year from 25-28 September: #BrianBilston @picadorbooks.bsky.social and @adelewalton.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social and @jsthrillers.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social Tickets: bit.ly/3V3goBC #MLF2025
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
my latest for @theobserveruk.bsky.social
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Spoke at the Lush 30th anniversary this week about my book and why I became an online safety campaigner 💜
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
My idol turned mentor interviewed me for my debut book last night 🥹 @graceblakeley.substack.com
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Thank you so much!
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 07/07/2025
Very excite for this event in Bristol on Weds with the brilliant @adelewalton.bsky.social - tickets still available: www.bookhausbristol.com/events/#e127...
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:events – bookhaus:
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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Michaela Makusha @michaelamakusha.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I'm this month's guest writer in The Logging Club newsletter, discussing the yearning I have for the children to be able to log into child-centric spaces online. So much fun working with @adelewalton.bsky.social - whose book you should read if you have not!! open.substack.com/pub/loggingo...
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Hands up - who misses the old internet?
Guest newsletter by Michaela Makusha
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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · 30/06/2025
YouTube says it banned Andrew Tate. So why is his face still all over their platform? Hear from activist and book author @adelewalton.bsky.social who explains our findings. Watch. Share. Call on YouTube to stop enabling & profiting from Andrew Tate’s extreme misogyny.
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Can't wait to be in Bristol next week discussing all things Big Tech, the broligarchy and logging off with @graceblakeley.substack.com. Get your tickets here: www.bookhausbristol.com/events/#e127...
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
In many ways, Bender and Hanna successfully demonstrate that AI is a con. It fails at productivity and intelligence, while the hype launders a series of transformations that harm workers, exacerbate inequality and damage the environment. Nice write-up of The AI Con by Luke Munn @theconversation.com
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Is AI a con? A new book punctures the hype and proposes some ways to resist
AI slop means faster and cheaper content, and the technical and financial logic of online platforms creates a race to the bottom.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/06/2025
Interviewing My Brother On My Podcast To Talk About How Smart He Is
uncapped with Jack Altman
Sam Altman from OpenAI
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Logging Off in Manchester! 💜
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 17/06/2025
this! don't call me a "denialist", "pessimist" or anything negative if I have all the empirical evidence and receipts while the other side shows up with "potentials", "possibilities" & other buzzword. call me an expert, a scientist or a realist
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Blackwell's Manchester @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Such a great evening listening to @adelewalton.bsky.social and @sazloureads.bsky.social discuss Adele's insightful, shocking yet hopeful book Logging Off. We've got signed copies for everyone who couldn't make the event!
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
CALL TO ACTION: email your internet provider to urge them to block access to the toxic forum responsible for at least 97 UK deaths including my sister. Template letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Logging Off listed as one of @glamour.com ‘s top June reads! 💜 blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
In @telegraphnews.bsky.social today speaking about the systemic failure to keep young people safe online. I wrote Logging Off in the hopes that no one else experience the pain that my family have, but until tech companies are hold to account, there will continue to be victims of online harm.
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Spoke on BBC Radio 4 for Start The Week with @dannydorling.bsky.social🎙️on why fighting against big tech means tackling addictive design at the root, and the need to hold MPs to account for regulating social media companies. Listen back here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
thank you!
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John ‘the importance of ideas & information’ 🦋 @wjpme.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Another excellent Start the Week - Hidden spaces and dangerous places - chaired by the indefatigable @tds153.bsky.social featuring @adelewalton.bsky.social @atossaaraxia.bsky.social @dannydorling.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #StartTheWeek #Crises #OnlineSafety #Freeports
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Start the Week - Hidden spaces and dangerous places - BBC Sounds
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Danny Dorling and Adele Zeynep Walton.
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Meeting Tony back in 2022 when he shared an ad for help with his smartphone changed my view of the digital world. His was one of the many human stories that inspired me to write Logging Off. Spoke to The Telegraph about our intergenerational friendship!
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
A dream launch for Logging Off last night at @scarlettletters.co.uk 🥹♥️
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Loved chatting to @alixdunn.com on this week’s episode of Computer Says Maybe! Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/2Z97...
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The Scarlett Letters @scarlettletters.co.uk · 06/06/2025
Thank you to everyone who came to a sold-out launch of Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World by @adelewalton.bsky.social We have a few signed copies available - get in quickly while stocks last!
A photo of the book Logging Off by Adele Walton, with "signed copy" stickers attached.
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
“It's a timely and useful record of what it means to have grown up online.” Thank you @thetimes.com for this review of Logging Off, ahead of publication day tomorrow! www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
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I lost my sister to an online forum — here’s what needs to change
Aimee Walton killed herself aged 21 after joining a suicide forum. In Logging Off, her sister Adele Zeynep Walton argues that social media platforms need to take responsibility for their content
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Thank you so much Stuart!
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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Really looking forward to reading Logging Off by @adelewalton.bsky.social It takes a long hard look at the digital world and big tech, including a bit on Amazon warehouses I even get a mention!
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Pleased to speak to @politico.com about the Labour government’s poor and performative stance on online safety for their Morning Technology Newsletter ❗️
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Spoke to Center for the Study of Organised Hate for their latest blog about how #addictivealgorithms expose users to harm, the importance of making #safetybydesign a foundational principle in tech development. Have a read: www.csohate.org/2025/05/31/s...
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Why Safety by Design Must Be the Foundation of Our Digital Future
Adele Zeynep Walton discusses how addictive algorithms expose users to harm and the importance of making safety by design a foundational principle in tech development.
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
It's publication week and today I'm in @theipaper.com speaking about Logging Off, my sister's story and what the government could do to keep other vulnerable people safe online. inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
inews.co.uk
'My 21-year-old sister died after using a suicide forum. Why is it still online?'
Adele Zeynep-Walton discovered her sister Aimee accessed a suicide forum before her death. Now she wants to know why the website is allowed to operate
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 31/05/2025
Newsletter: An OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries on men it describes as “subhuman”, and promoting misogynist ideas sourced from online incel forums. “Without surgery, you won’t mog genetically superior guys head-on,” it tells one man. www.citationneeded.news/openai-incel...
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OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men
OpenAI's featured chatbot recommends $200,000 in surgeries while promoting incel ideology
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
These people can't stop reinventing phrenology
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Really enjoyed speaking on this episode of Data and The City from @cpdpconferences.bsky.social last week 👩🏻‍💻 open.spotify.com/episode/08h2...
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Episode 8: Couture Cool-Down: Data, Dignity & CPDP
Data & The City · Episode
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Hitting the shelves in Brighton @waterstones.bsky.social 🥹♥️
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
In AMAZING company in @waterstones.bsky.social Piccadilly! 😳
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Yay! Thank u so much
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
OMG LOGGING OFF SPOTTED IN UK BOOKSHOPS FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!!!
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