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Marvin Milatz

@milatz.bsky.social
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I work on digital methods in journalism | #OSINT and digital forensics researcher at DER SPIEGEL Dokumentation

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Ann-Katrin Müller @akm0803.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Nazis bei der AfD? Ja! Beispielsweise gestern in Zeitz bei Ulrich Siegmunds Wahlkampftermin. Danke an @franziskaklemenz.eurosky.social für das Video des Hitlergru, ich stand daneben, filmte aber zu dem Zeitpunkt nicht. Folgt ihr mal! Rest der Fotos und Videos von mir.
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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 17/08/2026
Ranking friendly-looking medieval animals by how much we'd trust them. #MedievalMonday
A medieval illustration of Taurus the Bull from an ancient manuscript. Text on the image reads: "Friendly-looking medieval animals! Ranked by how much we’d trust them."
About:
Taurus the Bull
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Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 614
Date Statement:
12th century, middle
Place of Origin:
England
Description:
Copies a prototype of 11th century, probably London, B.L., Cotton MS. Tiberius B. V.
Language:
Latin
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
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Martin Stabe @martinstabe.ft.com · 11/07/2026
Absolutely essential reading about the impact of vibe coding on open source and the practice of software development generally, by @samlearner.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/cec8...
ft.com
Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers
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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
No surprise, but my father fell for ANOTHER AI-powered scam targeting the elderly. He saw an ad for something on IG. He ended up purchasing the snake oil they are selling. They made an AI manipulated video of Laura Ingram and Elon Musk. Folks, it's not even a good video.
Screenshot of a webpage for 'healthycaresenior.com" made to look like a Fox News article "Fox Exclusive: Elon Musk is in trouble for revealing a "secret formula for reversing agin" PS Big Pharma offered $10,000,000 so you wouldn't see this"AI video of Laura Ingram and Elon Musk as if it is a segment on him. Text says "This isn't medicine - It's engineering: Musk destroys the aging industry"
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Marvin Milatz @milatz.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Also true for my Digital archaeology approach to web archives 😆
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Marvin Milatz @milatz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
More than some truth in this. In the end it’s just stats. Highly complex, but still statistics. Has anyone coined the term ‘Statistical responsibility’ yet?
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 25/05/2026
i was reminded that i made a helpful tool if you're somebody who files FOIA requests for email logs (as a spreadsheet) upload them to GraphEmails.com and you can generate network graphs of who's emailing each other, which you can style and filter (or use to filter the log)
screenshot of GraphEmails.com shows a network graph of email recipients as colorful dots, with a list of domains on the right side and a sidebar on the left with options to filter, style, and analyze the graph
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Marvin Milatz @milatz.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Un-mythosising Anthropic‘s Mythos - this cyber frontier dispatch from Cloudflare helps to put hype into context. blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-fronti...
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Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
In recent weeks, we pointed Mythos and other security-focused LLMs at live code across critical parts of our infrastructure. We share what we observed, the models’ strengths and weaknesses, and what t...
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Marvin Milatz @milatz.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Enshittification at work … „Curl’s creator Daniel Stenberg wrote in a blog post that the “never-ending slop” had taken “a serious mental toll to manage and sometimes also a long time to debunk”.“ www.ft.com/content/dbec...
ft.com
‘Never-ending’ AI slop strains corporate hacking reward schemes
‘Bug bounty’ programmes have seen a jump in spurious AI-generated submissions
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Megha Rajagopalan @meghara.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Come work with me! A really cool job just opened up on our international investigations team at The New York Times for a reporter specializing in OSINT, with lots of room for different skillsets job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...
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Open Source Intelligence Reporter
Berlin, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; London, United Kingdom; Madrid, Spain; Paris, France; Rome, Italy; Warsaw, Poland
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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Tampere University offers a 3-year fully funded PhD position on the use of open source investigation in relation to the Ukraine and Palestine conflicts. tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
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Doctoral Researcher (U-KNOW-project, focus on open-source investigation in the Ukraine or Palestine conflicts) / Väitöskirjatutkija
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Marvin Milatz @milatz.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This is worth your time. Puts in perspective the impact of fakes on our society. podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/e...
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1. Fake it. Make it. Podcast it.
Podcast-Folge · Everything Is Fake · S2 F1 · 29 Min.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 10/05/2026
Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved. Today, some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk. Tell publishers: don’t block the #WaybackMachine. Sign the petition ➡️ www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/
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Tell New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep the crucial work of journalists in the Wayback Machine!
The news isn’t getting preserved in the Wayback Machine anymore because major media outlets are blocking it.
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julianeloeffler.bsky.social @julianeloeffler.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Neu von uns: Collien Fernandes beschuldigt Christian Ulmen, sie »virtuell vergewaltigt« zu haben. Der SPIEGEL enthüllte den Fall, Ulmen ging dagegen vor. Nun hat das Landgericht Hamburg entschieden: Über die Vorwürfe zu berichten, war rechtmäßig und angemessen. www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/net...
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Fall Collien Fernandes: Christian Ulmen scheitert vor Gericht – SPIEGEL-Bericht bleibt praktisch unangetastet
Collien Fernandes beschuldigt Christian Ulmen, sie »virtuell vergewaltigt« zu haben. Der SPIEGEL enthüllte den Fall, Ulmen ging dagegen vor. Nun hat das Landgericht Hamburg entschieden: Über die Vorwü...
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Let's say you love journalism that pisses off the powerful. Let's also say, totally theoretically, you don't always love reading lots and lots of words of it. Well, you're in luck! There's a new podcast to treat that affliction: www.propublica.org/series/paper...
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Paper Trail
Investigative reporters at ProPublica chase down evidence of wrongdoing and bring it to light. Each episode, you’ll ride along as we talk to reporters and their sources, uncover hidden facts and show ...
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Ron Chan @rondanchan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Using the rules of linear perspective to combat ai slop can I get a hell yeah
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
this 2-3 year reporting fellowship for the paper in Martha's Vineyard (comes with a furnished 2-bedroom guesthouse!) looks like it ruuuules vineyardgazette.com/henry-beetle...
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Henry Beetle Hough Enterprise Fellowship Reporter
The Vineyard Gazette, an award-winning newspaper on Martha’s Vineyard with a reputation for rigorous, in-depth reporting, is seeking an experienced journalist for a newly created fellowship. Working w...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 01/05/2026
This paper was retracted from the @nejm.org because the images of bronchial branching after smoke inhalation were obviously and transparently manipulated by generative AI. Look at the ruler. I don't even know what lesson to draw from this. www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...
Crazy ruler above brachial branching
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Marvin Milatz @milatz.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
By the way, this was really great. #osint folks, check out @netpreserve.bsky.social and get in touch with the web archivists from your respective National Library. They have interesting sources to tab into. Happy to connect, feel free to reach out.
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Martin Stabe @martinstabe.ft.com · 23/04/2026
🚨Job🚨 at @data.ft.com: We're hiring a data journalist in the US, based in New York or Washington #ddj: job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
job-boards.greenhouse.io
US Data Journalist
New York; Washington DC
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Marvin Milatz @milatz.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Just about to catch a super early flight to Brussels to add some thoughts on #osint, forensics and digital archives to this expert conference. Looking forward to mingle among web archivists from all over the globe. 👋 #iipcWAC26
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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
BREAKING: You checked the weather this morning. And you just told a surveillance company where you sleep. Meet #Webloc, used by ICE, cops & foreign govs to track 500m+ phones. No warrant required. Our @citizenlab.ca investigation + how to protect yourself 🧵/1 citizenlab.ca/research/ana...
heatmaps from the report showing tracking
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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Archive Social Media Plan B
Computer screen with a massive hammer in front of it.
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Marvin Milatz @milatz.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Hey @rasmushelles.bsky.social, funny coincidence: you seem to have a German retro pic for image header. I have a retro Danish 😆 Great style Have a good one! archive.org/details/dani...
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Danish Foreign Office Journal 1960-11: Iss 35 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 15/04/2026
and here is Matt's piece on Wired:
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The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Much Worse Than You Thought
An analysis by WIRED and Indicator found nearly 90 schools and 600 students around the world impacted by AI-generated deepfake nude images—and the problem shows no signs of going away.
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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 15/04/2026
New on @indicator.media: With @mattburgess1.bsky.social at @wired.com, I built a map of the reported cases where AI was used to create nonconsensual intimate imagery within schools around the globe.
indicator.media
More than 640 students have been targeted by AI nudifiers across 28 countries
Indicator’s map of school-related incidents shows the global reach of these tools of abuse
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infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
See Also: www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04... #archives #journalists @fightforthefuture.org @archive.org
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100+ Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive’s Role In Preserving the Public Record
Rachel Maddow declares the Archive a “national treasure” as uncertainty mounts on whether today’s journalism will be preserved for future generations. Photos by Kenyatta Thomas Over 100 journalists in...
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infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The Internet's Most Powerful #Archiving Tool Is in Peril (via @wired.com) www.wired.com/story/the-in... #archives #webarchives #digipres #publishers @archive.org
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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
OpenAI: don’t visit publisher’s websites!! let our chatbot summarize the reviews to help you shop!! ChatGPT: i frew up
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Marvin Milatz @milatz.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Der Stand der Dinge - von @julianeloeffler.bsky.social, @maxhoppenstedt.bsky.social und Lukas Eberle. www.spiegel.de/panorama/ges...
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(S+) Collien Fernandes: Die wichtigsten Fragen zum Fall und den Vorwürfen
Fakeprofile, mutmaßliche Gewalt, Ermittlungen in zwei Ländern: Die Vorwürfe von Collien Fernandes gegen Christian Ulmen sind vielschichtig – und ständig gibt es neue Entwicklungen. Der Überblick.
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DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · 31/03/2026
Gefälschte Nacktfotos von realen Frauen: Unter der dubiosen KI-App Clothoff leiden vor allem junge Mädchen. Hier packt ein Whistleblower über das skrupellose Geschäft aus.
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Deepfakes: Perfides Geschäft mit künstlicher Intelligenz
Gefälschte Nacktfotos von realen Frauen: Unter der dubiosen KI-App Clothoff leiden vor allem junge Mädchen. Hier packt ein Whistleblower über das skrupellose Geschäft aus.
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Marvin Milatz @milatz.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The open web is dying .. little by little
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Anne Will @annewill.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Sehr, sehr viele von euch haben sie schon gehört. Eine unserer bestgehörten Folgen ever. Freut mich. Wichtiges Thema, das endlich die gebührende Aufmerksamkeit bekommt, - auch unabhängig von der konkreten Recherche. Dafür ein Shoutout an @julianeloeffler.bsky.social @maxhoppenstedt.bsky.social. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
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DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · 27/03/2026
Die SPIEGEL-Recherchen über den Fall Collien Fernandes haben in Deutschland Ermittlungen ins Rollen gebracht. Die Staatsanwaltschaft Itzehoe nimmt ein Verfahren wieder auf, im Fokus steht Christian Ulmen.
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Collien Fernandes: Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt gegen Christian Ulmen
Die SPIEGEL-Recherchen über den Fall Collien Fernandes haben in Deutschland Ermittlungen ins Rollen gebracht. Die Staatsanwaltschaft Itzehoe nimmt ein Verfahren wieder auf, im Fokus steht Christian Ulmen.
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DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · 26/03/2026
Eine Petition gegen die geplante Neufassung des Medizinal-Cannabisgesetzes bekommt breite Unterstützung. Deren Initiator stellt sich dabei als Patientenvertreter dar. Aber sein Arbeitgeber profitiert vom bestehenden Gesetz.
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Medizin: Cannabislobby kapert Bundestag - als Patientenvertreter getarnt
Eine Petition gegen die geplante Neufassung des Medizinal-Cannabisgesetzes bekommt breite Unterstützung. Deren Initiator stellt sich dabei als Patientenvertreter dar. Aber sein Arbeitgeber profitiert vom bestehenden Gesetz.
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Michael Trammer @michaeltrammer.de · 25/03/2026
Letzten Sommer ging ein #OnlyFans Coaching von damaligen Nazis rum. Wir haben uns gefragt: Was steckt dahinter? Sind Rechtsextreme wirklich auf OF aktiv? Sexten da Nazi-Männer (als Frauen) mit anderen Typen? Kurz gesagt: Ja! Mehr jetzt in unserem Beitrag: www.youtube.com/watch?v=glbi...
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Undercover auf OnlyFans: Wenn ein Nazi mit dir schreibt
YouTube video by Cooked
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julianeloeffler.bsky.social @julianeloeffler.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Ich bin schon lange ein Riesenfan von Anne Will und ihrem Podcast. Insofern wars mir eine ganz besondere Ehre und Freude, bei ihr zu Gast zu sein. Danke für die Einladung!
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Anne Will @annewill.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Ist zwar noch nicht Donnerstag, aber: neue #Folge! Mit @julianeloeffler.bsky.social und @maxhoppenstedt.bsky.social zu ihren Recherchen für den @spiegel.de zu #Fernandes, #Ulmen, #SexualisierteGewalt, #DigitaleGewalt. open.spotify.com/episode/32Z6...
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Warum tut Deutschland nicht deutlich mehr gegen digitale Gewalt? Mit Juliane Löffler und Max Hoppenstedt Heinrichs
Spotify video
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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 25/03/2026
Today on @indicator.media: I uncovered a coordinated network of AI "models" repeatedly promoting the gambling website 1win on Instagram.
indicator.media
This network of AI thirst traps repeatedly promoted a gambling website
But was it a paid promotion or something else altogether?
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ICIJ @icij.org · 24/03/2026
Join ICIJ and @opencorporates.bsky.social on March 26 for a session that bridges the gap between digital anonymity and physical accountability, revealing the "brick and mortar" reality of the global crypto economy. Register now: buff.ly/yzCffyK #Crypto #AML #InvestigativeJournalism
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
SCOOP: Someone has found new samples of the iPhone spyware DarkSword and published them on GitHub, putting millions of iOS users at risk. A cybersecurity researcher told us that the leaked spyware is "way too easy to repurpose" and "we need to expect criminals and others to start deploying this."
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Someone has publicly leaked an exploit kit that can hack millions of iPhones | TechCrunch
Leaked "DarkSword" exploits published to GitHub allow hackers and cybercriminals to target iPhone users running old versions of iOS with spyware, according to cybersecurity researchers.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
A wave of AI-generated images and video has emerged from the Iran war. But a new phenomenon is also observable, write shirin anlen and Mahsa Alimardani from WITNESS: the spread of technical-looking analyses used to discredit authentic evidence.
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How AI Content Detection is Being Weaponized in the Iran War
When trust in evidence collapses, the greatest casualty is accountability for real-world harm, write shirin anlen and Mahsa Alimardani from WITNESS.
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Jonathan Sachse @jsachse.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Gerne teilen: Wir vom RND würden gerne verstehen, wie oft Frauen von pornografischer Deepfakes betroffen sind und besonders, an welche Grenzen sie gestoßen sind, beim Aufklären, Stoppen und Ermittlungen dagegen. Hier können Sie uns für Hinweise erreichen: www.rnd.de/kontakt/hinw...
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RND.de - Aktuelle Nachrichten und Kommentare - RND
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DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · 21/03/2026
Spanien hat schon vor vielen Jahren die Weichen gestellt, um Gewalt gegen Frauen juristisch zu bekämpfen. Hier erklärt Strafrechtsprofessor Manuel Cancio Meliá Unterschiede zum deutschen Recht.
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Spanien: Wie das Land Frauen besser vor Gewalt schützt
Spanien hat schon vor vielen Jahren die Weichen gestellt, um Gewalt gegen Frauen juristisch zu bekämpfen. Hier erklärt Strafrechtsprofessor Manuel Cancio Meliá Unterschiede zum deutschen Recht.
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Ann-Katrin Müller @akm0803.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Das solltet ihr alle lesen: Collien Fernandes hat Christian Ulmen angezeigt, wirft ihm psychische und physische Gewalt vor, analog wie digital. Starke Recherche von @julianeloeffler.bsky.social, @romanhoefner.bsky.social, @maxhoppenstedt.bsky.social, @milatz.bsky.social & Lukas
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(S+) Collien Fernandes zeigt Ex-Mann Christian Ulmen an: »Du hast mich virtuell vergewaltigt«
Schauspielerin Collien Fernandes kämpft gegen Online-Missbrauch: Sie sucht seit Jahren diejenigen, die Fake-Pornografie von ihr verschicken. Nun hat sie Anzeige gegen ihren Ex-Mann erstattet, den Mode...
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Max Hoppenstedt @maxhoppenstedt.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Die Schauspielerin Collien Fernandes kämpft seit Jahren gegen Fake-Pornografie im Internet. Jetzt hat sie ihren Ex-Mann Christian Ulmen angezeigt. Unsere Titelgeschichte zu einem strukturellen Problem, über das in Deutschland noch immer zu wenig gesprochen wird: digitale sexualisierte Gewalt.
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Signal @signal.org · 03/10/2025
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 03/10/2025
"Hundreds of AI-generated Bollywood videos with 16 million views have been deleted from Google's YouTube after Reuters reported they were similar to those at the centre of a legal challenge filed by a celebrity couple to protect their rights."
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Scores of Bollywood AI videos vanish from YouTube after Reuters story
Hundreds of AI-generated Bollywood videos with 16 million views have been deleted from Google's YouTube after Reuters reported they were similar to those at the centre of a legal challenge filed by a celebrity couple to protect their rights.
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