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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Musk still relying on conspiracy theories and lies when it comes to USAID. "USAID was the biggest funder of regime change. Also, its funding was not stopped it was moved to the State Department." "There were claims [that programs were shut down]. These claims were false, nonsense."

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026

Not just lobbying! our new paper maps 27 mechanisms of regulatory capture used by Big AI + 11 narrative framings that rationalise capture. “Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity” will be presented at #FAccT2026 next month arxiv.org/abs/2605.068... 1/

Title: Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity

abstract: Over the past decade, the AI industry has come to exert an unprecedented economic, political and societal power and influence. The well-functioning of regulatory and oversight structures and processes that govern the industry thus have paramount ramifications for everything from fostering public trust in systems marketed as AI, the credibility of scientific knowledge, educational and healthcare services and products, information ecosystems, the environment, rule of law and integrity of democratic process. In this paper, we first develop a taxonomy of mechanisms enabling capture to provide a comprehensive understanding of the problem. Grounded in design science research (DSR) methodologies and extensive scoping review of existing literature and media reports, our taxonomy of capture consists of 27 mechanisms across five categories. We then develop an annotation template incorporating our taxonomy, and manually annotate and analyse 100 news articles. The purpose behind this analysis is twofold: validate our taxonomy and provide a novel quantification of capture mechanisms and dominant narratives. Our analysis identifies 249 instances of capture mechanisms, often co-occurring with narratives that rationalise such capture. We find that the most recurring categories of mechanisms are Discourse & Epistemic Influence, concerning narrative framing, and Elusion of law, related to violations and contentious interpretations of antitrust, privacy, copyright and labour laws. We further find that Regulation stifles innovation, Red tape and National Interest are the most frequently invoked narratives used to rationalise capture. We emphasize the extent and breadth of regulatory capture by coalescing forces — Big AI and governments — as something policy makers and the public ought to treat as an emergency.

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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

“Many discussions still approach AI primarily as a digital technology, but in many of these countries, AI is becoming visible through the infrastructures that sustain it” @carineroos.bsky.social Featuring @joan1k.bsky.social @datalabelers.bsky.social & many more inspiring people around the world!

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Brazil will soon find out if its new law aimed protecting children online will stick. A copy of a draft enforcement decree obtained by Tech Policy Press offers a fuller picture of how it may be implemented, fellow Tatiana Dias reports.

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Brazil Wants to Reshape The Internet for Kids. The Hard Part Just Began.

A Brazilian law aimed at protecting children online is set to take effect this week, but significant enforcement questions remain, Tatiana Dias reports.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The expanding war in Iran brought to the fore questions about the role of technology in armed conflict, including the controversial use of new artificial intelligence technologies. Tech Policy Press invited perspectives from experts on what they are watching for as the situation unfolds.

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Key Questions on the Role of Technology in the Expanding Middle East War

Tech Policy Press asked experts working at the intersection of technology policy, security, and international affairs to share what they are watching.

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Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium @pairs.site · 14/02/2026

📢 Introducing: Carine Roos, a researcher working at the intersection of AI, democracy, & human rights. With experience across academia, civil society, & international organisations, she has contributed to global debates on digital rights, digital sovereignty, & ethical AI. (1/2)

PAIRS: Participatory Al Research &
Practice Symposium 2026
Carine Roos
is speaking at PAIRS 2026
on
Resisting Big Tech:
Countergovernance and the Making of Brazil's Digital Child
Statute
PAIRS 2026 in New Delhi, India - 18t February 2026
Find out more at www.pairs.site

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Victoria Hendrickx @victoriahendrickx.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Very excited to share the newest contribution to the Symposium on #AI and #democracy on #countergovernance by the brilliant @carineroos.bsky.social 📢👇

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Law, Ethics & Policy of AI - Blog & Summer School @kul-ai-sschool.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

How can #BigTech be resisted in the age of AI, so as to reclaim democratic imagination and better protect #collectiverights? In this contribution of the Symposium on #AI & #Democracy, @carineroos.bsky.social Read it here: www.law.kuleuven.be/ai-summer-sc...

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

One Year Trump. Let the past year serve as a reminder of what a malicious, vindictive, greedy leader can do to a country in one year. And let it be a reminder that a strong opposition, strong institutions, and independent and free media are necessary guardrails in a strong democracy.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has generated a flood of sexualized images of women and minors posted to the social media platform X. Regulators around the world are responding by opening inquiries, demanding takedowns, and threatening legal action. Tech Policy Press is tracking such responses.

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Tracking Regulator Responses to the Grok 'Undressing' Controversy | TechPolicy.Press

Regulators around the world are responding by opening inquiries, demanding takedowns, and threatening legal action against Elon Musk's company.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

New year, new (job) opportunities: Full professorship in Digital Society and Democracy. What: excellent conditions, start-up and transition packages, interdisciplinary and supportive environment, wonderful colleagues. [1/2] fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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DIAS Professorship in Digital Society and Democracy

Application deadline: March 15, 2026, 11.59 PM/23.59 CET/CEST.

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Cecilia Rikap @ceciliarikap.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Today Dec 15 at 3.30pm Brazil (6.30 pm UK/7.30pm CET) I will be speaking about #digital #sovereignty at Brazil's Ministry of Management and Innovation organized by ENAP Join online: youtube.com/live/ABLeek8... This talk is part of @iipp-ucl.bsky.social 's applied learning program

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

While some elements of AI are genuinely new, the harms it enables are evolutions of those we have seen before, writes Sarah Barrington. It is time to recognize the myth of the “unprecedented” and hold tech accountable, she says.

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Generative AI is Neither Too Unprecedented Nor Too New to Regulate | TechPolicy.Press

It is time to recognize the myth of the “unprecedented” and hold tech accountable, writes Sarah Barrington.

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Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Most of the discussion around America's AI strategy abroad has focused on the AI Action Plan - but perhaps more important was the Executive Order on exporting the AI stack. 🧵

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Carine Roos @carineroos.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

This is one of the things I miss most about London. Radiohead will be performing there from November 21–25. And to think they once revolutionized the industry by releasing In Rainbows online in 2007, letting people download it and choose their own price. youtu.be/0vK0yCbVdQg?...

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Radiohead - Daydreaming @ Movistar Arena Madrid 4-NOV-2025 (4K)

YouTube video by NonanteNeuf

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

«Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore. It’s building empires.» The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social www.authoritarian-stack.info

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The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

"This week Elon Musk proudly launched his latest venture — not electric cars, not space exploration, not satellites, not tunnels, not social media, not brain implants, not the rolling back of the administrative state... but something altogether more fundamental: a new version of the truth."

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Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is a major own goal

Humans might be highly imperfect and biased but they are still better than AI at getting to the truth

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Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Today is the official UK publication day for Silicon Empires! I'm excited to have it out and hear what people think. There's an enormous amount happening every day in AI, and it's difficult to gain a stable perspective. I wrote the book to try and get some secure hold on that constant flux. 🧵

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Carine Roos @carineroos.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Always a pleasure to come back to LSE, even for a short visit

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/09/2025

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The U.S. government is using tariffs and the Magnitsky Act to seek impunity for former President Jair Bolsonaro, who orchestrated a failed coup attempt on Jan. 8, 2023, in an effort to subvert the popular will,” writes President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil.

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Opinion | Lula: Brazilian Democracy and Sovereignty Are Non-Negotiable

The president of Brazil calls U.S. tariffs on his country “not only misguided but also illogical” and defends former President Jair Bolsonaro’s conviction.

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Carine Roos @carineroos.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Raining day in London (as always). It couldn't feel more nostalgic

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 11/09/2025

"A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

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Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

Former president faces decades-long jail sentence for seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing 2022 election

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Agência Pública @apublica.org · 09/09/2025

🫳 A MÃO INVISÍVEL DAS BIG TECHS | Ao longo de nove meses, 17 organizações de jornalismo, lideradas pela Pública e pelo CLIP, fizeram reportagens sobre as estratégias de influência das Big Techs em 13 países. A primeira parte desta série acaba de ser lançada. Siga o fio!

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/08/2025

Western leaders have appeased Donald Trump since he returned to power, only to be hit with new demands after every concession. On Tuesday, Trump declared economic war on countries that regulate its tech companies. It’s time for the world to break from the US and aggressively target Silicon Valley.

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World leaders must stop appeasing Donald Trump

Conceding to Trump’s demands only guarantees new threats. It’s time to reject the US and its tech companies.

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The Economist @economist.com · 28/08/2025

Brazil offers a lesson in democracy to an America that is becoming more corrupt, protectionist and authoritarian econ.st/4peBqLR

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Carine Roos @carineroos.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

One of the sharpest critiques I’ve read of the “techno-feudalism” hype is this essay by @evgenymorozov.bsky.social in Le Monde diplomatique. Well worth the read: mondediplo.com/2025/08/02te...

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What the techno-feudalism prophets get wrong

Subscribers // by Evgeny Morozov (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, August 2025)

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Carine Roos @carineroos.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Loved this interview with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social on @techwontsave.us. A sharp and timely analysis of digital sovereignty and how countries can resist Big Tech dependence. Must-listen! techwontsave.us/episode/290_...

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Why Countries Must Fight For Digital Sovereignty w/ Cecilia Rikap - Tech Won’t Save Us

A left-wing podcast for better technology and a better world.

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Carine Roos @carineroos.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Powerful analysis by @beccalew.bsky.social in @theguardian.com what looks like a recent backlash against diversity on digital platforms is in fact rooted in the 1990s, when masculinity, entrepreneurship & deregulation fused into a high-tech civilizational project www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

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‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

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Carine Roos @carineroos.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

"Do Trump and his advisors really think they can use tariffs to bully a nation of + 200 million people into dropping its efforts to defend democracy, when it sells 88 % of its exports to countries other than the United States?" Love it @pkrugman.bsky.social paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumpbrazi...

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Trump/Brazil: Delusions of Grandeur Go South

Trump thinks he can rule the world, but he doesn’t have the juice

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Kait Richardson 🥔 @thryse.com · 24/02/2025

IBM (1979)

A COMPUTER
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER
MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

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Carine Roos @carineroos.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Professor Virgílio Almeida discussing platforms as institutions, using Brazil as a case study at the Digital Humanism Conference @dighum.wien, including the case where Elon Musk’s X challenged Brazil’s Supreme Court authority. #dighum2025

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Tech billionaires not only shape public debate, but also define the very boundaries of who can occupy that space with legitimacy and safety, writes Carine Roos. www.techpolicy.press/gendered-dis...

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Gendered Disinformation as Infrastructure: How Tech Billionaires Shape Political Power | TechPolicy.Press

Tech billionaires not only shape public debate, but also define the very boundaries of who can occupy that space, writes Carine Roos.

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Carine Roos @carineroos.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Quotes from the screening of Eno: An Ever-Changing Portrait of a Musical Visionary: 1. Art is how we synchronize our feelings 2. Honor your mistakes, they often carry hidden intentions 3. We live in complex systems, but treat them as linear 4. Surrender is an active verb Thanks @dighum.wien 💖

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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social · 13/04/2025

How to fix social media? While we still work hard to understand the exact problems we are facing, many people are also already working on solutions. I wanted to highlight some directions that I was lucky enough to be involved in (thread):

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 15/04/2025

Very good thread. Nothing is inevitable but anything can happen in the absence of resistance.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 09/04/2025

For @thebulwark.bsky.social, I wrote about why I decided to testify before Congress on the censorship lie. This hearing had everything: -sexism -references to Goebbels -posthumous rehabilitation of McCarthy In other words, another day in today’s GOP 🫠 www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...

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Republicans Are Obsessed with a Censorship Lie

They’re even eager to namedrop Goebbels—but they blithely ignore the urgent First Amendment threats posed by Trump.

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Carine Roos @carineroos.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

O avanço da censura e das políticas excludentes nos EUA não é isolado, faz parte de uma estratégia global. No @nexojornal.bsky.social, analiso como isso amplia as desigualdades e afeta a democracia no Brasil. www.nexojornal.com.br/redes-sociai...

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets. www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

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Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas"

The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...

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