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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 (she/they) @amy-king.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Really looking forward to this on Wednesday!!
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PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
With the UK's Government moving ever closer towards banning social media content for under 16s, @maia-aa.bsky.social & @ariadnevromen.bsky.social share their thoughts on "Why an under 16s social media ban won’t improve online safety" in the TIP Blog. 👇 technologypolicy.substack.com/p/why-an-und...
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Why an under 16s social media ban won’t improve online safety
With the United Kingdom moving towards banning under 16s from accessing social media, Dr. Maia Almeida-Amir & Prof. Ariadne Vromen provide a rights-based perspective following the Australian ban.
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Amy King (she/they) @amy-king.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The safeguarding concerns identified in this report are pressing. Additional measures need to be taken to ensure children are not exposed to inappropriate content on X. Read our report here: www.counterhate.com/research/x-rated
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X-rated — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH
X recommends explicit content to teens 30% of the time and enables strangers to send them explicit DMs. New CCDH UK testing found – read more.
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Amy King (she/they) @amy-king.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Really proud of the team's work on this report. The findings are appalling. Chatbots are failing to connect the dots between questions about how to make people "pay", how to obtain maps of high schools or locations for politicians offices, and advice on gun shops and models. 1/4
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Amy King (she/they) @amy-king.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Governments must "decouple from big tech" if they want to enact effective regulation, says @ceciliarikap.bsky.social. We need alternatives to the cloud so we can divest from the entrenched power of Microsoft, Google and Amazon. A brilliant book talk! I look forward to getting my hands on the book
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PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This is *today*! There's still time to sign up ⏰ 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...
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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Part one of 'The Century @25' SI of @c21literature.bsky.social ed by @alicebennett.bsky.social @melissaschuh.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and I, is out now (part two coming soon): please check it out! c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1422/i...
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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings | Issue: Issue: 3(12) The Century at 25 (2026)
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
news articles about trans people based on keyword, left is cnn, right is fox. fox has  10x as many
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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · 25/01/2026
Our new findings reveal Grok became an industrial-scale tool for generating sexualized images of women & girls. But this is preventable. Platforms & AI companies have the ability to build in safety & keep choosing not to. Get our latest research + updates in your inbox: join our email community ⤵️
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Bad actors and greedy platforms are creating a toxic environment of hate and disinformation online that has real-world impacts. Join us and be part of the campaign to clean up social media and hold platforms accountable.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 26/01/2026
You know Alex Pretti & Renee Good—the 2 white people ICE killed. ICE has also killed Keith Porter, a Black man, Parady La, a Cambodian man, & 5 Latinos—Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos. 9 TOTAL. ABOLISH ICE.
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PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Our January newsletter is out! ❄ technologypolicy.substack.com/p/the-tip-ne... We're particularly excited to invite you to our upcoming event with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social on 25 Feb 3pm GMT, where she will present her findings on the Cloud ☁️ in the age of AI 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...
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Amy King (she/they) @amy-king.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
New research from my team has some staggering findings that reinforce the urgent need for tech accountability. counterhate.com/research/gro...
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Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH
CCDH found that Grok floods X with sexualized images after launching a one-click editing feature in an 11-day period.
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Daniel Weissmann @danweiss.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
On 25th of Feb Cecilia Rikap and I will discuss her upcoming book "The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud" for the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social's @techpolicy.bsky.social group with Q&A. 1500-1630 GMT (more details 👇🏼 and in reply) www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...
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PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The MPG x TIP conference in Bournemouth is a go! We've already had a fantastic keynote by Susan Banaducci and now we're onto the first wave of panels! @psampg.bsky.social
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Amy King (she/they) @amy-king.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
At @techpolicy.bsky.social x @psampg.bsky.social Navigating Digital Democracy conference this week in Bournemouth! Please come say hi if you're around ☺️
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Amy King (she/they) @amy-king.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Starting soon!!! 👇👇
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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...
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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.
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Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🚨 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
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Call for Papers – Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026
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Amy King (she/they) @amy-king.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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...
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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
*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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Dr Liam Mcloughlin ☕ @leelum.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🚨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...
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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).
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Amy King (she/they) @amy-king.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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.
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Amy King (she/they) @amy-king.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I'm really looking forward to this! Get your abstracts in - deadline is next Friday (26th September)
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Amy King (she/they) @amy-king.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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?
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat
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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · 19/08/2025
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...
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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...
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
🤖 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...
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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.
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Amy King (she/they) @amy-king.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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.
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PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
⚡ 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 🧵
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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...
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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.
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Amy King (she/they) @amy-king.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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.
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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · 18/06/2025
🚨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...
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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
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Amy King (she/they) @amy-king.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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
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Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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
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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · 20/05/2025
💊 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 ⤵️ buff.ly/PapTp5K
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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.
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Amy King (she/they) @amy-king.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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!!!!
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Amy King (she/they) @amy-king.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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!
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