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Gretchen Peters

@gretchenpeters.bsky.social
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ED of Alliance to Counter Crime Online. Tech companies should have the same duties to protect users on their platforms as brick & mortar companies have to protect people on their premises.

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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Protecting the privacy of political dissidents and other people who need online anonymity doesn't have to mean you also have to protect pedophiles. It's not an either/or situation. #TOR #CSAM @cdnchildprotect.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Privacy at a cost: the dark web’s main browser helps pedophile networks flourish, experts say
The Tor network’s privacy architecture creates a safe haven for predators to share child sexual abuse material
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/07/2025
The cult vibes have escaped contain.
gizmodo.com
Mark Zuckerberg Already Knows Your Life. Now He Wants His AI to Run It
In a sweeping new plan, the Meta CEO is assembling an AI
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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
UPDATE: This has gotten worse. Blackburn struck a deal to facially exempt certain types of state AI regs, but actually included a provision that would prohibit nearly all regulation on tech companies including those that Blackburn seemed to try to get out of the law
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
This crazy provision in the OBBB will remove states’ capacity to regulate driverless vehicles, AI in aircraft, medical devices. It will gut various ongoing lawsuits. Never thought I’d see republicans denying states’ rights! www.wsj.com/politics/rep...
wsj.com
GOP Aims to Ban State AI Laws After Megabill Deal
Whether recent changes in the Senate will win over other GOP holdouts is an open question
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
This is a good start but next time add a few zeros to the fine or it won’t have teeth. www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-medi...
dataprotection.ie
Data Protection Commission
The Irish Data Protection Commission has today announced its final decision following an Inquiry into TikTok Technology Limited (“TikTok”).
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11/04/2025
There it is.
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Shocking story by @bcmerchant.bsky.social about striking mental health care professionals at #kaiser. This is what #bigtech and #bighealth have in mind for our healthcare. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/therapists...
bloodinthemachine.com
Therapists went on a hunger strike to protest 'assembly line' conditions and the automation of mental healthcare
Kaiser mental health workers have been striking for more time with patients, better pay, and to fight algorithmic triage—healthcare automation that puts patients at risk.
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Incredible report shared by @counteringcrime.bsky.social's @kenyadan.bsky.social about chimps smuggled from DRC to Indian for a billionaire's zoo. africageographic.com/stories/how-...
africageographic.com
How DRC's endangered chimpanzees end up in a billionaire’s Indian zoo - Africa Geographic
Controversy erupts over wild chimpanzees trafficked from DRC to India’s Vantara Zoo using suspect CITES permits. NGOs demand global action
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The incredible work of @counteringcrime.bsky.social members @atharproject.bsky.social are now being featured in a documentary. Archeologists go undercover to save antiquities stolen by ISIS and sold on...wait for it...FACEBOOK. Check out the trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sngc...
youtube.com
Artifact War: Official Trailer (2024)
YouTube video by IGN
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/03/2025
“A new survey of the six leading publicly available AI voice cloning tools found that five have easily bypassable safeguards, making it simple to clone a person’s voice without their consent.” 4 of the services only require checking a box saying the person whose voice is used gave authorization.
nbcnews.com
AI voice cloning software has flimsy guardrails, report finds
It’s easy to bypass steps that voice cloning services have taken to prevent nonconsensual voice cloning, according to the report.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Social media feeds shape what we see—but how do they actually work? Cybersecurity for Democracy Project co-director Laura Edelson details a new framework that breaks down algorithmic feeds into four key dimensions, helping users & researchers understand their impact.
techpolicy.press
A New Framework for Understanding Algorithmic Feeds and How to Fix Them | TechPolicy.Press
Laura Edelson details a new framework for more useful public conversations about social media feeds and better research into user safety.
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
What could possibly go wrong, chapter 11 M 46868837 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/t...
nytimes.com
Lila Sciences Uses A.I. to Turbocharge Scientific Discovery
An ambitious start-up embodies new optimism that artificial intelligence can turbocharge scientific discovery.
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
What could possibly go wrong, version 1585826364868573737 @hypervisible.bsky.social @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
"We can’t have solutions that swap in one obstacle for families with another... it just won’t work if we remove Section 230 immunity, but replace it with the requirement that a plaintiff must plead the platform had actual knowledge" of CSAM or trafficking crimes. 🙌👏 @cagoldberglaw.bsky.social
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Tech Transparency Project @ttp-updates.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Match Group made a show of hiring trust & safety workers to assure users it platform was safe. When negative media attention and congressional scrutiny died down, the company laid off its core safety team and outsourced their jobs. Read more from @eedugdale.bsky.social & Hanisha Harjani:
theguardian.com
Rape under wraps: how Tinder, Hinge and their corporate owner chose profits over safety
Match Group has known for years about abusive users on its dozen dating apps, but leaves millions of people in the dark
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I applaud #tinasmith for retiring at an appropriate age and wish every US Senator her age and older would follow her lead. #termlimits www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...
nytimes.com
Senator Tina Smith Won’t Run in 2026 as Democrats Face a Brutal Map
The Minnesota Democrat will leave her party defending another open seat as it confronts an uphill battle to retake the Senate. The move could also prompt a run from Gov. Tim Walz.
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I recommend @techpolicypress.bsky.social for balanced (ie not tech funded) analysis of tech policy.
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tobymc.bsky.social @tobymc.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Are social media companies doing enough to combat illegal wildlife trafficking? Numbers from new report suggest they are blocking fewer postings. Read more: wp.me/p9BenY-1Q3 @gretchenpeters.bsky.social @sarahdurant.bsky.social‬‬ @alexverbeek.bsky.social @bigearthdata.bsky.social
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Social Media Companies Removing Fewer Posts by Traffickers in Illegal Wildlife · Eye on Global Transparency
By Toby McIntosh Social media companies may have slowed down in the fight against illegal wildlife trafficking online, according to a numerical hint dropped by…
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
disinformation is organized crime. www.aspistrategist.org.au/to-fight-dis...
aspistrategist.org.au
To fight disinformation, treat it as organised crime | The Strategist
The Australian government’s regulatory approach to tackling disinformation misses the mark by focusing on content moderation and controlling access to platforms. This focus on symptoms is like fightin...
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I did it years ago. I got back tons of time and my mental health improved.
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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Fact checking is free speech.
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Translation: We still quietly take money from Meta so we will applaud their bullshit moves but frame it as a good faith effort while pretending to be guardians of personal freedom when we are actually tech industry puppets.
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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
From @anntelnaes.bsky.social: "As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. So I have decided to leave the Post." anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
#Meta takes down too much harmless stuff, and leaves up too much bad stuff, so you're really failing on both ends @nickclegg. www.theverge.com/2024/12/3/24...
theverge.com
Meta says it’s mistakenly moderating too much
A top exec says the company is working to bring down its moderation “error rates.”
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Huge news in the tech litigation space!! Snap's petition in the CA Appeals Court has been denied. Neville v Snap now moves into discovery.
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A victory in the fight against online harms as #Telegram agrees to join the #InternetWatchFoundation. Many who track the online spread of #CSAM believe #TG is world's largest repository of child sex abuse content, and a place where offenders share and trade it. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Telegram U-turns and joins global child safety scheme
It is the latest in a series of changes announced by the platform since its founder Pavel Durov was arrested.
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Laura Edelson @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The FTC has again posted a list of research questions they are interested in (and there's some real bangers in here from supply chain to data privacy), so let's do a quick overview/highlights 🧵 www.ftc.gov/policy/advoc...
ftc.gov
Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem? Not quite, but here are more research questions from the Office of Technology
Earlier this year, the Office of Technology (OT) published a list of
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Keep forgetting to post, @counteringcrime.bsky.social was on @nbcnews.com last week about our new report on #DeepFakes being used to scam people. Warning: there is a tsunami of fraud coming our way. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news...
nbcnews.com
New warnings about A.I.-generated video deep fakes
Scams involving video deep fakes are on the rise, officials say, as scammers increasingly turn to artificial intelligence to create video calls aimed at duping people. NBC News' Kate Snow reports.
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
In #OZ, #Meta is now requiring #financial-advertisers to be verified, which is a big change from what happens in the #US, #CA, and the #EU where financial scams ABOUND on their shitty platforms. But I have to wonder, why stop there? 1/ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Meta to force financial advertisers to be verified in bid to prevent celebrity scam ads targeting Australians
Exclusive: Businesses to require financial services licence number to post Facebook ads while individuals will need government-issued ID
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Michael Salter @mike-salter.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
"Long-term investment in trauma-informed preventative work with boys and young men would help the government achieve its mission to halve VAWG, though this needs to be done in the context of wider public debate about men’s behaviour at home, in public spaces and in the workplace." 👏👏👏
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
As a former date rape counselor I’m amazed by this request. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/p...
nytimes.com
What’s the Worst Date You’ve Ever Been On? We Want to Hear About It.
Tell us about your experience, and you may be featured on the Modern Love podcast.
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This tweet by @tante.cc encapsulates how I have felt all week working to get Section 2255A deleted from the #STOPCSAM Act, before it gets tacked onto the back of one of the end of year bills moving through Congress, like my soul wants to leave my body. 1/
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Yes. It's still all scams. A socially destructive set of technologies and attached belief systems.
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Sorry to report that #BigTech is up to its usual antics, this time at the expense of #CSAM victims. Language in section 2255A of the otherwise excellent #STOPCSAM bill would block victims' path to justice. for #techmedia, I thought you would be interested 1/ youtu.be/-G-hC6zCwKc
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Sign this letter to save lives!
YouTube video by Scrolling 2 Death
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Nathalie Van Raemdonck @nathalievanraemdonck.com · 18/11/2024
I am BEGGING everyone with elders in your life to talk to them about scams and how professionalized the cybercrime industry is 😮‍💨 Yes, a "financial advisor" who was recommended by "your bank" can have fancy websites tracking "your stock", and have employees that call to "advise" you on your stock.
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
You know what I really like is the notion that, sure, Section 230 should protect user-generated content but algorithmic distribution is the platform’s speech so it’s not 230 protected. Think about it.
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hey US Congress: instead of passing STOP CSAM with language (section 2255a) that actually PROTECTS #Bigtech why don’t you follow #scotland’s lead?
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Childlight Global Child Safety Institute @childlightgcsi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
crimestoppers-uk.org/fearless/pro...
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I'm late to the game on this, but I've recently discovered that the #STOPCSAM act, which we @counteringcrime.bsky.social otherwise support, now has provisions that would make it near impossible for #CSAM survivors to sue tech companies in civil court. I wonder whose lobbyists got them added? Hmm! 🤔
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15/11/2024
“Other companies could still potentially scrape your Bluesky posts for training. Bluesky’s robots.txt doesn’t exclude crawlers from Google, OpenAI, or others, meaning those companies may crawl Bluesky data. ‘Bluesky is an open and public social network, much like websites on the Internet itself…’”
theverge.com
Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts
It does use AI to power other parts of the platform, though.
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
What the Hack this week speaks to Dick Gephardt on #Section230, mirroring what I said last week. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
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Dick Gephardt Wants a Safer Internet
Podcast Episode · What the Hack with Adam Levin · 11/12/2024 · 44m
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Last week I was on What the Hack with Adam Levin podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
podcasts.apple.com
Gretchen Peters Fights the Digital Underworld in Congress
Podcast Episode · What the Hack with Adam Levin · 10/22/2024 · 52m
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I've been on a dystopian journey into the world of deep fake fraud, and I'm here to say some scary-ass shit is coming our way. static1.squarespace.com/static/6451b...
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Illicit actors are weaponizing #AI and #deepfake technologies to defraud and predate innocent people under a failed legal regime that effectively subsidizes the tech industry, writes @gretchenpeters.bsky.social of the Alliance to Counter Crime Online:
techpolicy.press
Time to Act on Harmful Deepfakes & Algorithms | TechPolicy.Press
Gretchen Peters of the Alliance to Counter Crime Online writes that the current legal regime massively subsidizes the tech industry.
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
Simply put, yes. But you must do the original form. #romana #pilates www.nytimes.com/2022/07/22/w...
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Gretchen Peters @gretchenpeters.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
About a decade ago I testified in a trial in BC related to a #Sikh extremist. There was a similar blend of drug trafficking & extremism, with spooks from #Pakistan (and #India) in the background on that case. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/n...
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