iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Lê Nguyên Hoang @science4all.org · 28/07/2026

Hugging Face est parvenu à se donner l'image d'une organisation "AI Ethics". Mais le dernier rapport de @aiforensics.org par @paulbouchaud.com montre que l'entreprise étatsunienne dealeuse d'IA profite du cyberharcèlement massif des femmes par pornographie #deepfake. aiforensics.org/uploads/NCII...

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esme harrington @esmeharrington.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I had a great conversation with Paul Bouchaud at @aiforensics.org about their research tracking the proliferation of Grok-generated deepfakes across the internet, which disproportionately impacted women. Check it out in the most recent of AWO's newsletter here!

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Katia Roux @katiaroux.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Avec l’adoption définitive de la loi JOP 2030, l’expérimentation de la vidéosurveillance algorithmique est officiellement reconduite jusqu'en 2027. #VSA Un technosolutionnisme assumé malgré les risques en matière de droits humains. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEEO...

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Dans leurs yeux : la France à l'heure de la reconnaissance faciale

YouTube video by AmnestyFrance

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Flef @flefgraph.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Une étude faite par @aiforensics.org de comment Grok est utilisé. Chiffrée, et assez cool niveau méthodo. "Petite fille en bikini, déguisé en SS, jambes écartées..." C'est compliqué de faire pire quand même. www.linkedin.com/posts/flef_g...

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Grok AI Images | Florent Lefebvre

Papier étudiant comment des gens ont utilisé Grok pour transformer des petites filles en "SS en bikini, jambes écartés...". Et surtout qu'on ne me parle pas de détournement ou de hack des protections...

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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 17/12/2025

PornHub confirms that more than 200 million records were exposed, including email addresses and keyword searches. That’s bad. Imagine how much worse it would be if that data set also included government IDs. www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

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Porn Hack—Has Your Pornhub Search And View History Leaked?

Pornhub user data now in criminal hands — are you affected and what happens next?

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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · 25/11/2025

Meta's new computer vision model was trained on three times more military equipment than sports and medical combined, but don't worry—their license says you can't use it for military purposes.

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AI Forensics @aiforensics.org · 28/10/2025

Europe is rapidly rolling out age-verification — in the name of “child safety.” 🚷 But is it actually working? Our first audit found AgeGO’s selfie feature streamed biometric data straight to Amazon. 🪪 Our new report examines AgeVerif: What we found raises serious concerns. 👇

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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · 02/09/2025

Last week, 5 major porn sites rolled out “age verification” in France to comply with regulators. 3 of them — xvideos, xnxx, tnaflix — use AgeGO. AgeGO: • Collects the exact video URL before consent • Sends webcam streams directly to Amazon • Forces users to give an email via an unskippable step

Diagram of AgeGO's age verification system.

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

They are trying to erase trans people and doing it in the open....

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Amaury @al.intheopen.eu · 31/07/2025

I don't even have the words ....

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Antton Rouget @anttonrouget.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

En 2024 et 2025, une agence pro-Orbán a mené une campagne numérique occulte en faveur du Rassemblement national. Des dizaines de contenus ont été diffusés sur X sur la base d’un ciblage politique (ce qui est interdit), selon des données de l’ONG @aiforensics.org partagées avec @mediapart.fr. 👇

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Une agence pro-Orbán a mené une campagne numérique occulte pour le RN en France

Des contenus ont été diffusés sur le réseau social X en ciblant les internautes sur la base de critères politiques, ce qui est interdit par les réglementations françaises et européennes.

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Sleeping Giants FR @slpng-giants-fr.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

#BudapestPride Tout notre soutien aux participants de la #Pride interdite de Budapest ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍 "Another Hungary is Possible" de Laika (artiste hongrois) 2025

"Another Hungary is Possible" de Laika (artiste hongrois)
2025, dessin sur un mur de Budapest, Orban, habillé en femme (jupe et blazer rose, hauts talons, rouge à lèvres) il porte une cravate aux couleurs trans et tient dans sa main droite un drapeau arc-en-ciel

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/06/2025

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature

An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.

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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · 19/06/2025

Wanna check if you've been targeted by ads based on sensitive data? Just drop your X portability archive to find out haveibeentargeted.online

Screenshot of the website haveibeentargeted.online displaying the result of the analysis. We observe that the user was served ads based on their inferred similarity with political accounts.

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Amaury @al.intheopen.eu · 18/06/2025

@paulbouchaud.com uncovered some bizarre targeting options on #X that let advertisers do pretty much whatever they want. Want to exclude #LGBT users or target only #Christians? Apparently, it’s possible and done. Have you been targeted like this? 👉 aiforensics.org/work/sensiti...

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Have I been Targeted?

Have I Been Targeted? is a tool built by AI Forensics that lets you see whether you have been targeted based on your sensitive characteristics on X

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

...he says to Signal's president

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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · 18/06/2025

How X enables major brands to target your most sensitive personal data - from health conditions to political beliefs - check out our new report! aiforensics.org/work/sensiti...

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Katy's Shit Cartoons @cartoons.katymontgomerie.com · 07/06/2025

Sorry everyone, but these are the rules* *That cis people made up

Chart: Gender critical guide on when to come out as trans

Age line along the bottom from 0 - 100. 18 and 25 are highlighted.

From 0-25 is labelled: no one this young can know. Social contagion

From 18-100 and beyond is labelled: if you didn't come out before now you must not be serious. Transtrender/pervert

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Xavier Brandao @xavierbrandao.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

J’ai déposé une plainte contre Facebook auprès de l’Arcom hier, pour manquement à ses obligations liées au Digital Services Act (DSA). La raison : une modération aux abonnés absents, impliquant un potentiel risque systémique.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

"“The alleged underenforcement of Meta’s monitoring policies cannot give rise to liability,” the co wrote last year in a motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging negligence in removing crypto scams, adding it “does not owe a duty to users” to address fraud on its platforms. www.wsj.com/tech/meta-fr...

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Meta Battles an ‘Epidemic of Scams’ as Criminals Flood Instagram and Facebook

Fake puppies and phony offers of mouthwatering bargains are often seeded by overseas crime networks; employees say company is reluctant to impede its advertising juggernaut

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

NEW: A secretive surveillance company is building "AI persona" bots for cops intended to gather evidence on people. Personas include "college protesters," "radicalized" divorced moms, children. We have docs that shows how it works and what cops can do with it: www.404media.co/this-college...

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This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”

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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · 14/04/2025

"This is a highly adversarial space, we are investing a lot in our detection systems..." Meanwhile, our latest report at @aiforensics.org found Meta reviewed, approved, and displayed fake medicine advertisements over 292 million times to EU users since the DSA took effect.

Meta's Failing Ad Moderation: Health Scams Targeting EU Users

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Tanya O'Carroll @tanya.eurosky.social · 22/03/2025

Case closed! 🤩💥🚀. In settling my case, Meta has agreed to stop processing my personal data for direct marketing purposes. In non-legalese, that means I will no longer be shown surveillance-ads on Facebook. www.thetimes.com/article/ae70...

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One mother’s win over Meta will change social media for everyone

Britons will be able to opt out of targeted advertising after Tanya O’Carroll’s David-and-Goliath battle with Meta

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Anaïs Meunier @principedebase.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Ah si. L’info du jour c’est ça : les travaux de Paul Bouchaud montrent que Meta ne modère pas les publicités politiques (d’où les nombreuses pub de Doppelganger qui sont restées sur Facebook pendant des mois). Mais par contre ça, ils ont modéré… Ccl : le modèle économique de Meta c’est caca.

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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · 17/01/2025

By cross-referencing thousands of Doppelgänger advertisements and leaked assets, we document with @checkfirst.network and Reset.Tech the sustained access of the "Social Design Agency" to Meta's advertising ecosystem, despite being under US and EU sanctions. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/b...

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Russian Disinformation Campaigns Eluded Meta’s Efforts to Block Them

A new report details how a covert influence operation linked to the Kremlin continued to place ads on Facebook despite U.S. and E.U. prohibitions on doing business with the organization.

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CheckFirst @checkfirst.network · 17/01/2025

Despite international sanctions, #Meta is accepting payments from Russian propagandists. Our latest report with @aiforensics.org & Reset underscore how Meta has failed to moderate over 8,000 political ads from the Kremlin-linked Social Design Agency (SDA). #SDALeak

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Influence by Design: How Meta Accepted Russian Propaganda Payments Despite Sanctions - CheckFirst

Check First, in partnership with Reset.tech and AI Forensics, unveils the extent to which Kremlin-linked entity SDA have exploited Meta platforms to disseminate propaganda.

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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Well there you have it. In his Rogan Interview Zuck argues that the “billions of EU fines” against US companies “basically amount to tariffs”, and “you’d expect the USG to defend its companies” abroad moving forward. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k1e...

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Joe Rogan Experience #2255 - Mark Zuckerberg

YouTube video by PowerfulJRE

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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · 09/01/2025

Instagram zealously removes non-cis-male nipples, yet Meta profits from thousands of porn-filled ads on their platforms. In our last report, we documented Meta's double standards in content moderation. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Analysis | Sexually explicit Facebook ads raise eyebrows in Europe

Researchers found thousands of graphic ads that violate Meta’s policies. EU regulators say they’re taking note.

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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 09/07/2024

MUST READ: CDT’s Gabe Nicholas pens Op-Ed for Foreign Policy about how #AI companies can share information with researchers about how people use their products so we can have better AI policy. foreignpolicy.com/20...

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Red Teaming Isn’t Enough

Researchers need far more information to understand AI’s true risks.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 09/07/2024

Pairs well with @jatucker.bsky.social + Zeve Sanderson: www.techpolicy.press/beyond-red-t...

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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · 27/06/2024

While skimming through tens of Doppelgänger propaganda ads approved by Meta, for a total reach over 200k people in France, Germany, Italy, and Poland over the past two weeks, I stumbled upon an interesting slip-up in one of their ads 👇

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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · 03/06/2024

As the EU elections are coming up this Sunday, let's take a closer look at the French political discussion on X. By pulling together reposts from politicians and activists, we see a similar structure as the one reported in 2023 by ISCPIF politoscope.org

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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · 01/06/2024

After publishing its Adversarial Threat Report on Wednesday, Meta approved new pro-Russian propaganda ads to run on Thursday, which linked to spoofed domains impersonating news media. No systemic measures appear to have been implemented to moderate political advertisements, days before the elections

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 30/05/2024

Hundreds of pro-Russian ads are still spreading on Meta’s platform Facebook barely a week before the European election and despite an ongoing EU investigation, according to new research shared exclusively with POLITICO.

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Pro-Russian Facebook ads spread to target Italy, Poland elections

Days before the European election, disinformation campaigns still abound on the Meta-owned platform.

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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · 29/05/2024

Better late than never, I guess... But moderating propaganda ads before they go live would certainly be more impactful than after they become inactive

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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · 24/05/2024

Les propagandistes pro-russes exploitent la situation en Nouvelle-Calédonie pour affaiblir le soutien français à l'Ukraine, et Meta approuve les publicités sans avertissement politique.

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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · 20/05/2024

Less than 3 weeks to the EU elections and Meta is still letting foreign interference slide on its ads platform! If we can detect these campaigns, so should Meta. Time to step up and act on the commitment to "preserve the integrity of these elections on our platforms."

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Hervé Letoqueux @herve.checkfirst.network · 09/05/2024

[job] À VIGINUM, notre mission est de détecter et caractériser les manipulations de l'information impliquant des acteurs étrangers dans le débat public français. Nous recrutons un•e dev fullstack pour renforcer le pôle technique. scraping, collecte de données mais aussi dev d'outils en interne.

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Développeur full-stack H/F - VIGINUM - CDD / Temporaire à Paris

VIGINUM recrute un(e) Développeur full-stack H/F à Paris !

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EU DisinfoLab @disinfo.eu · 30/04/2024

With only five weeks left before the EU elections, the European Commission's investigation on #Meta will have to demonstrate if the #DSA can deliver results to protect the #elections from foreign interference and #disinformation spread through online platforms. 👇 www.disinfo.eu/eu-disinfola...

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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · 30/04/2024

🚨After our recent study revealed Meta's flawed moderation of political ads, enabling massive foreign interference weeks ahead of the elections, the EU Commission is launching an investigation into potential Digital Services Act violations.

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Paul Bouchaud @paulbouchaud.com · 28/04/2024

Meta fails to apply moderation decisions across duplicated ads. Meta considers the content of this ad to be against their Advertising Standards, yet this pro-Kremlin propaganda ad has been shown to 252,528 accounts, and is still running.

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David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

For data scientists and data engineers interested in democracy, please see positions posted at Northeastern for positions at the Internet Democracy Initiative (please reshare): northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 17/04/2024

A well-known disinformation network is growing on Facebook by pushing pro-Kremlin narratives with ads purchased through fake accounts, just weeks ahead of Europe's major election in June, according to an investigation shared exclusively with POLITICO.

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Big, bold and unchecked: Russian influence operation thrives on Facebook

Pro-Kremlin network “Doppelganger” is buying Facebook ads to spread divisive content on social media site ahead of EU election.

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