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Nicole Gill

@nicolegill.bsky.social
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Current: Founder & Executive Director, Accountable Tech Former: Campaigns & comms at The Hub, Tax March, SKDK, etc. Always: Celine Dion superfan

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/04/2025
but her emails
politico.com
Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world
It’s a more extensive use of the app than previously reported and sheds new light on how commonly the Trump administration’s national security team relies on Signal.
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Nicole Gill @nicolegill.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
“They’re just like us!” National security accidentally including a reporter on their signal chat, edition: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
theatlantic.com
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
talkingpointsmemo.com
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
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Nicole Gill @nicolegill.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Without independent federal oversight, the Davids are left to fight the Goliaths on their own. Statement from me and @accountabletech.bsky.social ⤵️
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 10/03/2025
Tesla shares are on track for their steepest drop since 2020 as Wall Street analysts begin to slash their estimates for vehicle deliveries
bloomberg.com
Tesla Shares Plummet as Wall Street Rethinks Sales Projections
Tesla Inc. shares plunged the most since 2020 on growing concerns across Wall Street about the electric-car maker’s deliveries.
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Nicole Gill @nicolegill.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
this is peak Boston
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Accountable Tech @accountabletech.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
So the guys with access to our personal data don't want us to have access to their conversations. Sure. www.404media.co/email/dc4f2f...
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DOGE Employees Ordered to Stop Using Slack While Agency Transitions to Records System That Is Not Subject to FOIA
Employees at Elon Musk's agency have been told: "OMB is asking us to stop generating new slack messages starting now."
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Nicole Gill @nicolegill.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
master negotiator at work obviously
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renee betterson @renee-betterson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
@accountabletech.bsky.social’s @nicolegill.bsky.social: “NetChoice’s continued assault on tech safety makes it abundantly clear that tech companies would sooner pour millions into legal fees than protect young people from the dangers of their profit-driven algorithms.”
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Tech Oversight Project @techoversight.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
🎯 @nicolegill.bsky.social from @accountabletech.bsky.social‬ : “The marriage of MAGA and Big Tech is an existential threat to democracy – one that will only grow." buff.ly/3EkdUKf
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Big Tech Chose a Side. Here’s What’s Next. | TechPolicy.Press
The marriage of MAGA and Big Tech is an existential threat to democracy, writes Accountable Tech co-founder and executive director Nicole Gill.
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Nicole Gill @nicolegill.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
CDC "HIV Testing" website right now
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 30/01/2025
If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out
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loreleikelly @loreleikelly.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We must build news anew. "For MAGA Republicans, disinformation isn’t just a byproduct of unregulated tech. It’s the goal" @nicolegill.bsky.social broligarchy explainer www.techpolicy.press/big-tech-cho... Dems step up & highlight the dangers of a MAGA-aligned surveillance state! Protect our data!
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Big Tech Chose a Side. Here’s What’s Next. | TechPolicy.Press
The marriage of MAGA and Big Tech is an existential threat to democracy, writes Accountable Tech co-founder and executive director Nicole Gill.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The marriage of MAGA and Big Tech is an existential threat to democracy, writes Accountable Tech co-founder and executive director Nicole Gill.
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Big Tech Chose a Side. Here’s What’s Next. | TechPolicy.Press
The marriage of MAGA and Big Tech is an existential threat to democracy, writes Accountable Tech co-founder and executive director Nicole Gill.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Something that I think we can all agree on is that the current generation of Democratic leadership is simply not optimized for the Attention Age. Not really their fault! And honestly, they may be better people for it, but it's a pretty pressing political problem.
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Nicole Gill @nicolegill.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Trump and his his billionaire friends are making Americans less safe in order to further line their pockets.
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Accountable Tech @accountabletech.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
As our Co-founder @nicolegill.bsky.social said: "Meta has gone out of its way to show fealty to Trump...This settlement is the latest example of that — a signal that Meta is willing to do whatever it takes to appease this administration.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Meta will pay $25 million to settle Trump lawsuit alleging censorship
Brought by Trump in 2021, the lawsuit alleged Meta improperly suspended his social media accounts following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
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Nicole Gill @nicolegill.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
“In the weeks following the 2024 election, Meta has gone out of its way to show fealty to Trump and join his far-right clique. This settlement is the latest example of that — a signal that Meta is willing to do whatever it takes to appease this administration.”
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Jeff Horwitz @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Would love to get Meta to explain why paying to settle Trump's suit alleging he was wrongfully booted after J6 isn't a precedent to settling cases from other users aggrieved about content moderation calls. (I've asked this one.)
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Accountable Tech @accountabletech.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Accountable Tech Statement on Meta’s $25 Million January 6th Settlement. accountabletech.org/statements/a...
Image of Accountable Tech Statement on Meta’s $25 Million January 6th Settlement that says:
 
Accountable Tech Co-Founder and Executive Director Nicole Gill issued the following statement on Meta’s latest gift to Trump in a settlement over the platform’s decision to suspend the then-candidate for using Facebook to incite the January 6th insurrection:

“Four years ago, Donald Trump used Facebook to incite a violent, deadly insurrection against the U.S. government — it’s a well-documented fact and one that Mark Zuckerberg has personally acknowledged. In the aftermath of that day, Meta joined other tech giants in suspending Trump from their platforms to prevent more violence. It was a rare show of responsible leadership from Silicon Valley that today is revealed to be no more than an empty gesture as Meta backtracks with a multi-million dollar donation to Trump’s presidential library.

In the weeks following the 2024 election, Meta has gone out of its way to show fealty to Trump and join his far-right clique – gutting DEI programs, ending fact-checking, carving out exemptions for anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, and decrying attacks on so-called “free speech.” This settlement is the latest example of that – a signal that Meta is willing to do whatever it takes to appease this administration, even if it means abdicating their responsibility to protect users and the public from the harms facilitated by their platforms.”
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/01/2025
I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks. www.ft.com/content/a0df...
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theftOpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property.
The San-Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of ‘distillation’, a technique used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable models. This allows them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost.
OpenAI declined to comment further on details of its evidence. Its terms of service state users cannot “copy” any of its services or “use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI”.
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Accountable Tech @accountabletech.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Maybe Mark Zuckerberg doesn't need a Manhattan-sized data center?
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Nicole Gill @nicolegill.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Excellent thread putting today's news about DeepSeek in context
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/01/2025
Rep. Veronica Escobar: "We need stability, especially in neighboring countries. Tariff war, trade war -- guess what that does? It doesn't just drive up the prices for Americans consumers, but it also drives up migration."
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Nicole Gill @nicolegill.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Foreign policy by tweet, and because of two men's egos.
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Nicole Gill @nicolegill.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
There won't be a 2028 election unless Democrats start calling Trump's first week what it is: a string of broken promises. This doesn't mean responding to every action, but it does mean actually forming sentences without testing the bejesus out of them.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
The plan is to crash the economy to suppress wages.
Marc Andreessen
@pmarca
A world in which human wages crash from Al --logically, necessarily -- is a world in which productivity growth goes through the roof, and prices for goods and services crash to near zero.
Consumer cornucopia. Everything you need and want for pennies.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This is inspiring! The Declaration of Digital Rights is a youth-led initiative spearheaded by our allies with Design It for Us. @ShareMyLesson.bsky.com created this helpful resource for educators to use in the classroom. sharemylesson.com/blog/declara...
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A Declaration of Digital Rights: Guiding Students to Safer Online Choices
Explore the Declaration of Digital Rights, a youth-led initiative empowering students to navigate the digital world safely, protect privacy, and tackle Big Tech challenges.
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Nicole Gill @nicolegill.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The tech oligarchy in full view
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Nicole Gill @nicolegill.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
From me and @accountabletech.bsky.social on the SCOTUS decision to uphold TikTok sell or ban law
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Accountable Tech @accountabletech.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Hey Meta advertisers, Are you cool with your dollars going to prop up the whims of a white nationalist? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...
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Stephen Miller, Channeling Trump, Has Built More Power Than Ever
Stephen Miller was the architect of Donald J. Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda in his first term. Now he is back with fewer internal rivals and even more influence with the president.
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Nicole Gill @nicolegill.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Of course Mark Zuckerberg's 'masculine energy' includes shoving his former colleague and friend Sheryl Sandberg under the bus to none other than Stephen Miller. the MAGA-fication of Meta continues
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Nicole Gill @nicolegill.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Throws Sheryl Sandberg under the bus and sucks up to none other than Stephen Miller. Absolutely repugnant.
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Accountable Tech @accountabletech.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Our Co-founder and Executive Director @nicolegill.bsky.social gets straight to the point: “Four years ago this week, Facebook banned Donald Trump for inciting a violent insurrection that resulted in the deaths of 5 people and disrupted our democracy..." thehill.com/policy/techn...
thehill.com
Meta’s fact-checking changes stoke disinformation concerns
The end of fact-checking at Meta is raising fresh concerns its platforms will become a hotbed of disinformation as the network hands over the policing of content to users.   The move, cou…
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Accountable Tech @accountabletech.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
“These companies have flourished because of a lack of regulation, and these leaders are now making choices that can insulate them down the road,” said @nicolegill.bsky.social, our Co-founder and Executive Director. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Trump vilified tech giants. Now they’re giving him millions.
After years in which Trump called them enemies of the people, Silicon Valley executives are hoping $1 million gifts and Mar-a-Lago dinners will mend bridges with the president-elect.
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Nicole Gill @nicolegill.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Fantastic. We need more of these, asap. Congratulations @normeisen.bsky.social and @jenrubin.bsky.social!
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Nicole Gill @nicolegill.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Now feels like a good time to remind folks that in 2021 @accountabletech.bsky.social created a centralized repository of all the news made by Frances Haugen's trove of internal documents from the company then known as Facebook. Bookmark it: facebookpapers.com
facebookpapers.com
The Facebook Papers
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Nicole Gill @nicolegill.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Meta has always bent (or ignored) its own rules to further enrich themselves. I'm old enough to remember XCheck, Facebook's list of VIPs that were shielded from its content moderation policies. Of course they do the same thing for big ad spenders. www.wsj.com/articles/fac...
wsj.com
Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt.
An extensive array of research reports, online employee debates and drafts of presentations to senior management, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, offer an unparalleled look inside the social-medi...
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
In case you’re interested in the weeds of how bad this is, this is a redline version of Meta’s formerly Hateful SPEECH now Hateful CONDUCT rule.
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Nicole Gill @nicolegill.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Trump got advance notice, but not the actual fact checkers.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Today's Playbook PM is "presented by Meta." This is how it frames today's news: "Meta sends Trump a friend request."
Meta sends Trump a friend request D
POLITICO Playbook PM 

Jan 07, 2025
POLITICO
Playbook PM
BY ELI OKUN
Presented by
[Meta logo]
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Nicole Gill @nicolegill.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
My statement on this morning's news from Meta. the TLDR? Preemptive capitulation to Trump from Zuck and Meta
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Nicole Gill @nicolegill.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
preemptive capitulation from Facebook and Zuckerberg
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Nicole Gill @nicolegill.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
We’ve been stuck in a social media hellscape for so long that many of us forgot that browsing Twitter or Instagram used to be enjoyable. But the rapid adaptation of Bluesky is actually raising the user experience across social media platforms. Why? Competition. Read more here:
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Posting this again, from @columjournreview.bsky.social in October: "Trump’s campaign against the media has taken time to have its intended effect, but have an effect it has." We saw the trend lines clearly, but still didn't expect to be this right this much this fast: www.cjr.org/analysis/ant...
cjr.org
On anticipatory obedience and the media
Trump's campaign against the Fourth Estate has been unfolding before our eyes—far more effectively than some in the press would like to believe.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Let's do this everywhere. www.publicnotice.co/p/wisconsin-...
publicnotice.co
Searching for a ray of hope? Look at Wisconsin.
Stringing together small wins can lead to big progress.
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
It was honestly surprising how chill everyone seemed about Altman's repeated deflections on safety. Over and over he said, "well I assume smart people will figure it out." Oh also, governments will have to work together lol www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/b...
cnn.com
Sam Altman, AI’s biggest star, sure hopes someone figures out how not to destroy humanity | CNN Business
Sam Altman, the PT Barnum of the AI industry, has a message for the folks concerned about the technology he’s dedicated his life to advancing: Don’t worry, the nerds are on it.
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Accountable Tech @accountabletech.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Meta claims AI had a limited impact across their platforms this election. But a new report from @issueonereform.bsky.social finds significant use of generative AI by foreign actors to spread electoral disinformation on social media. issueone.org/articles/flo...
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Zach Praiss @zachpraiss.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
These headlines were 3 days apart.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"
thelondoneconomic.com
European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
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