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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
#Meta's Llama 3.1 #AI model has memorized almost the whole first Harry Potter book and can generate large chunks of popular books. It is likely that these works have appeared frequently and in multiple forms within the model's training #data. www.404media.co/meta-ai-mode...
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Meta's AI Model 'Memorized' Huge Chunks of Books, Including 'Harry Potter' and '1984'
Researchers found Meta’s popular Llama 3.1 70B has a capacity to recite passages from 'The Sorcerer's Stone' at a rate much higher than could happen by chance.
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Jeff Bezos is getting married in Venice this June, and Italian activists are saying: enough. “Bezos can pay, he can stay—but thousands of shops in Italy have closed because of Amazon,” which is why locals in Venice are not too excited about welcoming him. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Inside the No Space for Bezos movement: ‘One man rents a city for three days? That’s obscene’
The Amazon boss, Jeff Bezos, is about to descend on Venice with his fiancee, some ex-Marines and his limitless credit card. We meet the Italian activists who are saying: enough
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Very excited to share this empathy.ai experience with the catalogue of @gutenberg.org. Enjoy our newsletter on LinkedIn to read more about the details of the experience and why it blends AI ethics with ethical commerce and the democratisation of knowledge 😌. www.linkedin.com/pulse/buildi...
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Building on the Legacy of Project Gutenberg with Empathy.ai
Do you know that you can read and download Alice in Wonderland for free online? Maybe you have heard about Project Gutenberg before, an online platform that offers over 70,000 books whose intellectual...
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
#Innovation and #Regulation 🧲 These are terms that we hear a lot in hashtag#AI and that are often presented as opposites... Why is that? 🤔 Ethical considerations do result in regulation... since when is #ethical a barrier? www.techpolicy.press/ai-regulatio...
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AI Regulation Versus AI Innovation: A Fake Dichotomy | TechPolicy.Press
The fake dichotomy between innovation and regulation obstructs tech advancement, write Fernando Filgueiras, Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça, and Virgílio Almeida.
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Mavis of Bushey is an independent shop that has been serving the Bushey community for nearly 90 years! 🌞
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
What are #PrivateLLMs? How are they more #sustainable? Enjoy this newsletter where we talk about empathy.ai following the theoretical ethical considerations of LLMs! www.linkedin.com/pulse/privat...
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PrivateLLM: Empathy.ai Case Study
In the past years, particularly in this industry, the concept of an LLM has become increasingly more relevant. A Large Language Model, as I'm sure you know, is an AI system designed to understand and ...
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
From the ECA, we love and proudly support ethical online stores like Olivia Selection, whose mission is to offer high quality toys at a competitive price while showing commitment to #sustainable and #fairCommerce. 😍
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
We love seeing ethical commerce in action! That’s why we celebrate Cowling & Wilcox for their dedicated section of ethical products. www.cowlingandwilcox.com/381-ethical
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
When it comes to AI and technology, Britain wants to seek an economic partnership with the U.S. 🤝 www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...
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UK will not change online safety law as part of US trade negotiations
Britain will not make any changes to its Online Safety Act as part of trade negotiations with the United States, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said on Wednesday.
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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The "Digital Tyranny"
Exploring how the current U.S.
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
In our latest #ECA Newsletter, we spoke about the concept of Freedom of Speech, from a philosophical perspective, going back to J.S. Mill. 🗣️ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
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Something Else for Europe and the U.S. to Disagree About: ‘Free Speech’
The two have long been divided on whether speech can be restricted, and when. Under the Trump administration, the gap is widening.
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The #UK government and #Apple are in a legal battle. The UK government wanted access to Apple's user #data for national security and law enforcement reasons. www.ft.com/content/2f65...
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UK government attempt to keep Apple challenge private rejected
Privacy rights campaigners welcome ruling by Investigatory Powers Tribunal
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Have you heard about live #shopping?🛍️ www.bbc.com/news/article...
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What is live shopping and will it take off?
Big in Asia, live shopping involves brands putting on live shows to sell direct to shoppers.
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Bigger social networks have more resources than smaller ones, making it easier for them to grow, while posing a challenge for those emerging. This is called the #network barrier. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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What's next for social media?
Start-up social media firms are looking to capitalise on dissatisfaction with the social media giants.
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Children having phones is a social norm which parents in the U.K. are challenging. 💪 Smartphone Free Childhood is a movement that started as a viral WhatsApp group of parents who want their children to have happy childhoods, without smartphones! 😄 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/w...
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The UK Government Wouldn’t Ban Smartphones in Schools. These Parents Stepped Up.
In Britain, amid growing evidence of harm to young people from extreme content online, a “Smartphone Free Childhood” campaign is going viral.
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
DeepMind has been holding back the release of its research, pushing for more bureaucracy in the #AI industry. Will this put the company in a better position in the AI race Will it delay progress for the general good? 🤔 www.ft.com/content/2ee1...
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DeepMind slows down research releases to keep competitive edge in AI race
Google’s AI arm led by Demis Hassabis makes it harder for its researchers to publish studies in major change in approach
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Don't miss our latests video summary on the "Digital Social Tyranny" Available on LinkedIn! What are your thoughts? 👇 #AI #AIEthics #EthicalAlliance #EthicalCommerceAlliance #Technology #FreeSpeech #Philosophy www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Video Summary - Explaining how the current U.S. absolutist free-speech… | Ethical Commerce Alliance
Video Summary - Explaining how the current U.S. absolutist free-speech approach challenges the very notion of individual freedom 🤔 Do you agree? Let us know…
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Sharing an advance on the video summary for our latest newsletter! - "The Digital Tyranny" 👀 #AI #AIEthics #EthicalAlliance #EthicalCommerceAlliance #EthicalAlliance
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This Friday ( 28th of March) at 10:00 CET 🕰️ : Empathy.co will host a LinkedIn Live this Friday and will show us how Empathy.ai 's Ocado meal planner, powered by #DeepSeekR1 and DataSapien's Edge-AI while keeping your #data in your hands. www.linkedin.com/events/smart...
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Smart Eating, Smarter Privacy: Your Health Data, Your Control | LinkedIn
Discover how Empathy.ai’s Ocado meal planner, powered by Deepseek R1, combines with DataSapien’s Edge-AI technology to deliver personalized healthy eating recommendations while keeping your health dat...
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Today we bring this discussion - can free speech absolutism challenge the very notion of individual freedom? Check out this article and let us know what you think! 🤔 www.linkedin.com/pulse/digita...
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The "Digital Tyranny"
Exploring how the current U.S.
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a theoretical form of AI that aims to replicate or surpass human-level cognitive abilities across different tasks. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/t...
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Powerful A.I. Is Coming. We’re Not Ready.
Three arguments for taking progress toward artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., more seriously — whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist.
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Shoshana Zuboff argued we can either have Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy, not both. 🤔 The E.U is proving to be the democracy that fights the tech oligarchy. 🇪🇺 Will it be successful? What are your thoughts? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/t...
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Risking Trump’s Ire, E.U. Accuses Apple and Google of Unfair Practices
European Union regulators said the tech giants likely violated the law by unfairly boxing out smaller competitors, adding to tensions between Europe and the United States.
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Chinese #AI models have been flooding the market. China has opted for openness, while the U.S has chosen exclusivity. As this Financial Times article states, geopolitics and business rarely go hand in hand with generosity. www.ft.com/content/13df...
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Why China is suddenly flooding the market with powerful AI models
The pace of Beijing’s open source push has been relentless
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Is AI-generated #art, real art? Can art that is made with #AI make us humans, feel something? Or does it require of human #subjectivity in its making? 🤔 In other words, is AI a tool or a Maker? We want to hear your thoughts 💭 www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Market changes trader application rules after AI complaints
The Alternative Market in Leeds will ask potential vendors to declare and describe any use of AI.
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
#Dataism is the belief that by gathering #data and accumulating information on human behavior, #algorithms can become more powerful and future decisions can be predicted. on.ft.com/41DCfCW
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Business school teaching case study: how will companies navigate the promise and threat of dataism?
Using the power of algorithms to inform decisions and create value demands new definitions of the role of management
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Will investing in #research over #revenue bring a more foundational future for #AI? Could it also be more #ethical? #AIEthics#Technology #DeepSeek #SilliconValley www.ft.com/content/fb5c...
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DeepSeek focuses on research over revenue in contrast to Silicon Valley
Chinese start-up to concentrate resources on building machines with humanlike cognitive capabilities
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
There is a positive in every negative. It seems like #Trump moving away from #green policies in #tech might be an opportunity for investors to focus on #European climate technology. 💚 Can Europe be a climate leader? 🧐 🇪🇺 #AI #AIEthics #ClimateCrisis #Technology www.ft.com/content/ff39...
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Trump policies a ‘welcome’ wake-up call for European climate tech
Some investors and accelerators see the new US president’s moves on green issues as an opportunity for the continent
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
At the ECA, we stand for #ethical commerce; this is not a capricious aspiration. In the long run, being ethical pays back, and when you are not, it hits you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/t...
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Elon Musk Says X Outages Were Caused by a Cyberattack From Ukraine
The billionaire’s social media site X suffered outages, and Tesla’s stock tanked on Monday.
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The #EU 🇪🇺 has launched an #investAI initiative to mobilise 200 billion euros for #AI investment, seeking to make #Europe an AI continent. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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EU launches InvestAI initiative to mobilise €200 billion of investment in artificial intelligence
Today, at the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit in Paris, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has launched InvestAI, an initiative to mobilise €200 billion for investment in AI, includi...
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Perhaps you have seen Elon on the Joe Rogan Experience last week; maybe you’ve heard what he has to say about #empathy🗣️. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSOx...
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Joe Rogan Experience #2281 - Elon Musk
YouTube video by PowerfulJRE
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
One thing we know about the big, powerful men is that they are always craving power. Another thing we know about them is that they want it all for themselves. www.ft.com/content/a101...
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Meta accelerates voice-powered AI push
Social media giant is introducing improved features as it bets on the technology driving the growth of so-called AI agents
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The UK Safer Phones Bill, equivalent to the second Online Safety Act, has been modified www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...
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Safer phones bill aimed at young teens watered down after minister opposition
New proposal calls for research instead of exclusion of under-16s from algorithms and mobile phone bans in schools
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
#Ofcom has shared a plan to target misogyny in #SocialMedia in the UK. www.ft.com/content/f7dd...
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UK to name and shame social media groups in online misogyny crackdown
Regulator Ofcom to publish plan outlining ‘sensible, practical’ steps to improve online safety for women and girls
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Hugh Grant and Macron have one thing in common... 😲 Macron's response to Trump, clarifying the facts, reminded us of the Love Actually scene where the UK PM reminds the US President that relations need to be truthful and right. 🌟 Who would have imagined? 😅 edition.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...
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Macron interrupts Trump, clarifies how Europe gave money to Ukraine | CNN Politics
In a press conference at the White House, French President Emmanuel Macron politely shut down President Trump’s claim that Europe is loaning money to Ukraine, further explaining how the EU gave the mo...
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Is Silicon Valley shifting away from moral clarity? 🫣
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Tech titans stand with Donald Trump to kill off activism in Silicon Valley
Fearful employees have done little to protest against the rightward shift of leaders such as Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Will Apple ditch #OpenAI? #Apple now has access to #OpenSource models like #DeepSeek, OpenAI is therefore dispensable for #Apple Intelligence. Will Apple bend to the status quo? Tell us what you think 🤔
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Apple’s diversity policies and OpenAI deal targeted by shareholders
iPhone-maker is rare holdout in Silicon Valley against conservative efforts to force rollback on DEI issues
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Sharing an advance on our first video summary - The digital panopticon, perspective on Surveillance Capitalism 💡 Stay tuned... we will post the full video tomorrow ! ⏱️ #AI #AIGovernance #Musk #SurveillanceCapitalism #AIEthics
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Our latest newsletter takes a different approach to today's society - The Digital Panopticon Can we have both Surveillance Capitalism and Democracy? or are they incompatible? Check it out! www.linkedin.com/posts/ethica...
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Ethical Commerce Alliance on LinkedIn: The Digital Panopticon - Surveillance or Democracy?
What is your opinion? #AIEthics #SurveillanceCapitalism #AI #GenAI #ResponsibleAI #EthicalAlliance
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Enjoy today’s newsletter👀! www.linkedin.com/pulse/last-m...
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Last Moment of Harmony? Betrayal Ahead?
Men want power, is there enough for all? Allow me for a satirical note when evoking the richly symbolic Last Supper, as I understand and respect every religion. The Last Supper signifies through the b...
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Here we have it... Larry (Oracle) is back in the game! We bet that is not making Marc Benioff the happiest man at the moment, especially after Marc's cheerleading for Trump… 👀 🟥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkT4...
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Trump announces $500 billion 'Stargate' AI infrastructure project | LiveNOW from FOX
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
We hope you enjoy our weekly newsletter!👍 www.linkedin.com/posts/ethica...
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Ethical Commerce Alliance on LinkedIn: Business is Everywhere - At what Cost?
Enjoy today's newsletter ! 💪 ✨ #EthicalAlliance #AI #SocialMedia #EthicsAI #TikTok #ResponsibleAI #RegulationAI
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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Get rid of fact-checkers. Great idea. This is the same guy who a few years ago said that AI would be great at moderation. Going back to your roots? You mean scoring women in your dorm room? Symptomatic: the reference to "legacy" media. Also, is he also turning orange too? "Stay good out there"?!
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Check out our latest newsletter! 🙌🙌 www.linkedin.com/posts/ethica...
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Ethical Commerce Alliance on LinkedIn: ECA Newsletter #60 Gloves Are Off 🧤
Check out today's newsletter !! #60 ⭐ #Newsletter #Privacy #AI #EthicsAI #SocialMedia #Meta #EthicalAlliance
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Ethical Alliance @ethicalallies.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Gloves are off… 😶 about.fb.com/news/2025/01...
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More Speech and Fewer Mistakes | Meta
We're ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to a Community Notes model.
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