Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 22hYour periodic reminder that "the company ignored employees' warnings" very often just means "people discussed what to do and not everyone agreed." Having these conversations is good. Fearing that open discussion will lead to gotcha headlines is bad. 2328
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Well shoot. Will someone please make a real SCOTUSblog now. 2103
Reposted by Daphne KellerKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We all complain about the media’s failures but organizations like @propublica.org and @texastribune.org are doing the work and deserve our financial support 111048270
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Bad drama with Meta over at GIFCT www.wired.com/story/indepe...wired.comMeta-Led Anti-Terrorism Group Faces Mass Resignation of Expert AdvisersMeta and other tech giants are pushing through structural changes at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism that outside researchers allege will weaken oversight of an already embattled consor... 355
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My favorite part so far in the EDPB scraping guidance is a list of scraped sources ending with "and personal websites (‘blogs’)." That kind of thing used to happen because drafters were old. Now maybe it's because drafters are young. @gateklons.eurosky.socialedpb.europa.eu 170
Reposted by Daphne KellerKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776122095
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Damages here are TBD but theoretically could reach the $ hundreds of BILLIONS. I hope all those sucker AGs who just settled their Cambridge Analytica claims for $460 million spread across fifty-ish states and territories are having uncomfortable conversations rn.reuters.com 14816
Reposted by Daphne KellerDaphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The EU DSA heard you liked box-checking exercises, so it put a box-checking exercise on your... well, you know. Out of court dispute processes for content moderation under Art 21 aren't censorship. But they're not looking like a great use of resources, either. www.techpolicy.press/the-overlook...techpolicy.pressThe Overlooked Issue Undercutting EU’s Out-of-Court Dispute SystemDavid Sullivan, Jonny Shipp, and Farzaneh Badiei examine the EU’s DSA dispute system and how fee structures may affect content moderation appeals. 365
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The EU DSA heard you liked box-checking exercises, so it put a box-checking exercise on your... well, you know. Out of court dispute processes for content moderation under Art 21 aren't censorship. But they're not looking like a great use of resources, either. www.techpolicy.press/the-overlook...techpolicy.pressThe Overlooked Issue Undercutting EU’s Out-of-Court Dispute SystemDavid Sullivan, Jonny Shipp, and Farzaneh Badiei examine the EU’s DSA dispute system and how fee structures may affect content moderation appeals. 365
Reposted by Daphne KellerRiana @riana.bsky.social · 22/09/2026NEW RESEARCH PAPER! With Cyndie Demeocq at U of Edinburgh, today I’m releasing a paper analyzing 71 federal criminal cases, filed around the US from 2022-2025, that somehow involve AI-generated or -morphed CSAM or child obscenity. Here's the SSRN link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comYes, It's Already Illegal: Federal Criminal Prosecutions for AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material, 2022-2025<div> Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is now capable of creating realistic-looking images and videos with just a text prompt. This capacity has been mi 48136
Reposted by Daphne KellerRiana @riana.bsky.social · 21/09/2026another problem with having millennarian cultists influencing the policy choices of a wrecker government is that they have zero interest in the near-term, human-lifespan future - the former think in millennia, the latter don't think pas 1/20/29 - and so there's just... no plan, and thus no planning 2152
Reposted by Daphne KellerJennifer Graham @jennrgraham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Every intro to sociology class I teach gets this image. 101400308
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I tend to refer to @ericgoldman.bsky.social's wonderful and essential Technology & Marketing Law Blog as "Eric's blog." TIL that Westlaw does, too. blog.ericgoldman.org 160
Reposted by Daphne KellerGateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026Seeing Like a Nanny State @daphnek.bsky.social 396
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026(1) This is amazing 👏 (2) The better automated content moderation gets, the more reasonable it is for govts to mandate automated censorship 🤐 (2) Having smaller/cheaper/more customizable como means there’s less reason to have centralized speech controls in the first place 🤓 074
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Postal Service law is the original platform regulation.nytimes.comSupreme Court Rejects Trump’s Restrictions on Mail-In Ballots: Live UpdatesThe ruling is a major loss for the Trump administration, which wanted to dramatically change how Americans vote by mail in the midterm elections. 13510
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I was in line to buy a bagel when the first tower collapsed on TV. The kid in front of me got on his knees and started praying, while I stood there thinking about foreign policy chickens coming home to roost. I think a lot about how much better his reaction was. 182
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Good write up of US abuse of the terrorist org designation process against an Italian provider of privacy-protective internet services. This should be a high priority issue for orgs in this space. It shines a light on legal and technical vulnerabilities to US pressure that will be exploited again.article19.orgUSA: Terrorism designation has global consequences for open internet and free expression - ARTICLE 19The US sanctioning of infrastructure provider Autistici/Inventati violates international freedom of expression standards and sets a dangerous precedent. 03124
Reposted by Daphne KellerHeather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The iOS update that pushed device-level AV to UK users (support.apple.com/en-us/123075...), and switches on web content filters by default if you don't play along, said nothing about that, but it said it "introduces Playlist Playground and Concerts in Apple Music and 8 new emoji".support.apple.comAbout iOS 26 Updates - Apple SupportiOS 26 brings a new design, intelligent experiences, and improvements to the apps you rely on every day. The new design with Liquid Glass brings a more expressive and seamless experience to your Lock ... 3198
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Has anyone seen data on the employee:whistleblower ratio for each platform? Or employee:ex-employee-professionally-committed-to-trashing-or-regulating-their-former-employer? You’d have to account for change over time. But we all know the winner. 051
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I did a thing in the NYT about the Meta settlement with @juliaangwin.com and others, and they put my "win for Meta" framing in the title. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/o...nytimes.comOpinion | ‘A Win for Meta’: A Debate on the Big Social Media RulingUnpacking the Meta ruling — how big is it, really? 64425
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026But don’t worry, every platform that has to do age verification will do it in a really robust, privacy-protective way. 25729
Reposted by Daphne KellerDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 31/08/2026Distributed solar power, the most potent tool available for bottom-up economic development & empowerment, is racing across Africa.ember-energy.orgThe take-off in African solar that official statistics can't yet see | EmberAfrica installs a record 17 GW of solar in 2026 - three-quarters of it is distributed solar, which is largely invisible. 6445107
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 29/08/2026A man avoids addressing his own trauma by confronting a senior manager. 210
Reposted by Daphne Kellerrahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Again, it's kinda hard to map NIST's reporting onto the requirements of the settlement because everyone is using a slightly different methodology/threshold , but by squinting a little at that most recent running NIST evaluation, I think there is ONE available algorithm that meets the threshold. 272
Reposted by Daphne Kellerrahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 28/08/2026But yeah: the current best true positive rate of all the algorithms NIST evaluates, for the 13-16 range -- so, 13-16 year olds correctly sorted as 13-16 -- is 72% and the worst is 5.9%. And false negative rate for that age range is hideous in BOTH directions, both too-old and too-young. 173
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This amount of parental supervision for teens' communications is ghastly. Drafters likely imagined kind parents helping an out-of-control kid. But the reality is that many, many kids have abusive parents. Imagine trying to reach out for help, but being trapped in the situation this describes. 37436
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 28/08/2026You know a company considers its settlement to be a bargain when it claims to be paying more than it actually will. From @techdirt.com: the judgment is capped at $16,680,647,753.21; Meta’s press release rounds it up to “approximately $18 billion”techdirt.comMeta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media PlatformBy now you've almost certainly heard the news that Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued the company in some form or another over child safety on Meta's platforms. The headlines are all covering the basics: the years-long case these states filed against Meta ends, and Meta pays somewhere... 22216
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Bertrand was smart and kind and had insane convening power and used it for good. What a loss. 193
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This is a major abuse of the terrorist designation power, and opens the door to worse ones. @eff.org @davidgreene.bsky.social please sue them! 1156
Reposted by Daphne KellerJillian C. York @jillian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026So much for Musk's "free speech" ideals www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comElon Musk’s X latest to block Saudi dissident accounts inside kingdomExclusive: More than 60 accounts on X have been made unavailable in Saudi Arabia, after similar action on Snapchat and Facebook 22210
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Part of Meta's business model (and arguably plenty of other companies') has always been "do arguably illegal stuff as long as possible, then lock in a new legal standard that prevents successors from doing it." The settlement does that to a Nobel-prize-worthy degree. 13312
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Super interesting stats in here, age assurance nerds. 054
Reposted by Daphne KellerBerserker Coach @berserkercoach.bsky.social · 27/08/2026doing my best to educate Reps and AGs, but it's a classic 1175
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 27/08/2026If I'm reading this right, the Meta settlement gives legal force to a rule that it it can wrongly identify users as being under 13 at the same rate that commercial vendors do. So the legal standard for sloppy overblocking is defined by age assurance vendors. 0149
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Meta has never once age-restricted content on Instagram, according to the EU's database. Which is weird because it says it has been doing that since 2024. about.fb.com/news/2024/01... 22713
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Having slept on it, I am far more troubled by this settlement. The government should not be able to use its power to bully a defendant into silencing lawful third party speech. That's what the govt did to bookstores in Bantam Books. The Court held that it violated publishers' 1st Amendment rights. 27529
Reposted by Daphne KellerDavid Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 26/08/2026In the Meta settlement, "Age Inappropriate Accounts" includes those that regularly share "Restricted Goods & Services." As we explained in our recent submission to the Meta Oversight Board, that category commonly includes information about abortion medication. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... 01417
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Age assurance is Flock cameras for the Internet. 620692
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 27/08/2026If the government is now giving force of law to Meta's Community Standards for teens, I'd like to know their history of enforcing those standards so far. Anyone know good examples of content they have suppressed *for teens or children* that clearly should not have been blocked? 3125
Reposted by Daphne KellerDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026"for all the people “celebrating” this as a win “against” Meta, you’ve been fooled. Meta just cut a deal to put itself in charge of how social media works going forward. this is Meta taking a “please regulate me Daddy” approach to the government, & getting exactly what it really has been asking for" 14612300
Reposted by Daphne KellerGateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026"We want to ensure teens benefit from this new industry standard, but we cannot do it alone" Translation: in the battle for attention (and who can violate privacy & kids' FoE rights the most), Meta doesn't want to be held back by its commitments that competitors don't have to adhere toabout.fb.comOur Agreement With Bipartisan Attorneys General: Calling on TikTok and YouTube to Join Us in Supporting TeensToday, we are announcing an agreement with a bipartisan group of 51 attorneys general across US states, territories, and the District of Columbia, building on our longstanding efforts to empower parents and support teens. 1119
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 26/08/2026This thread has my scattered takes on the Meta settlement agreement, at first skim. It covers a lot of the big pieces, despite beginning with a more tangential interest of mine about the MPA (nee MPAA). I think a settlement like this should be unconstitutional. But it's a weird new legal Q. 2227
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 26/08/2026LOL Meta's settlement with the AGs et al still uses content rules "inspired by movie ratings for ages 13+" even after the MPA told them to stop claiming to be "guided by" PG-13 ratings because it Meta "literally cannot" emulate MPA's human curation. 323567
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026This data on self-censorship among U.S. academic scientists and engineers -- not even humanities people, this is STEM -- is so disturbing. theconversation.com/self-censors... 6187114
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Driving non-lefties and people who have positive takes on AI off the platform is the kind of heedless self-own that German Communists were doing in the 30s. @masnick.com won’t let me quote post him or I’d share his far more nuanced thread. 1151
Reposted by Daphne KellerTJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 19/08/2026Motherless is a particularly horrible site, but the wider principle is that every .com can be arbitrarily shut down by the increasingly lawless US judicial system - whether or not it has any real connection to the US. 87250
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Paying to examine every detail of a business’s death spiral has kind of the same vibes as the torturer in the Princess Bride asking Westley to explain his pain in detail, for inclusion in a scientific study of pain. Or maybe Lector savoring Clarice Starling’s descriptions of childhood trauma.viewfromthewing.comGoogle Buys Spirit Airlines’ Emails, Files And Flight Records For $10 Million — So Gemini Can Learn From BankruptcyGoogle won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines’ internal data, paying $10 million for emails, Teams messages, code repositories, operating records, pricing data, maintenance history, and disrupti... 43915
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Remember how the Europeans were trying to censor us? Well, we’re doing censorship Texas style. Which is to say global and dumb af.reclaimthenet.orgTexas Locked a Foreign Company's Domain Over Missing Digital ID ChecksFourteen days after a Travis County judge signed, motherless.com dropped out of the .com zone file for every person on earth, most of whom have never heard of Travis County. 32311