Good morning from New York City! Looking forward to congratulating outstanding journalists tonight at the Overseas Press Club. Central to reaching citizens who need information they can trust is how we reclaim our rights on the Internet! #ReclaimOurRights #GlobalDigitalCompact

The global rules-based order is under assault.

Powerful governments cast humanity into an era devoid of effective international rule of law, with civilians in conflicts paying the highest price

Amnesty International State of the World’s Human Rights’ report is out now 👇

Being back Columbia Journalism it is a very present reminder that we are in the midst of a global, targeted , manipulative and too often successful campaign against freedom of the press, freedom of thought, and freedom of expression. It is everywhere. Including the US

Meta switched this year to using AI/no human in the loop reports for child abuse material to save $ - meaning the govt. can no longer legally use them without a warrant. Side benefit for Meta - fewer child abuse cases link back to them, at the cost of children’s safety.

Classical music, avocado toast, heat :) Hello, NYC!

Extremely important research.

It's not possible to understand the state of BigTech, or its pathologies at the moment, without understanding these companies' transformation into defense contractors, in addition to their central role as surveillance providers to the state. 👇

Philippines thanks G7’s support in rejecting China’s ‘baseless, expansive claims’ in disputed sea rappler.com/philippines/g7… via Rappler

More from Maria Ressa in Perugia: “If this is happening to us it is happening you and it is going to get worse.”

Sees polarization, “dismantling of facts”, personalization feeding geopolitical power, encourages worst of human nature, “like the Matrix meet the Truman show.”

BamaB nope the root cause is focusing purely on statistics in lieu of records for individual entities, just like I said in my 2001 book.

even with maximally clean data LLMs will still hallucinate to some degree.

If all we had was ChatGPT, we could say, hmm “maybe hallucinations are just a bug”, and fantasize that they weren’t hard to fix.

If all we had was Gemini, we could say, hmm “maybe hallucinations are just a bug”.

If all we had was Mistral, we could say, hmm “maybe hallucinations

Surrounded by inspiring women - & a rather inspiring man! - journalism festival #ijf24 today: brave, brilliant client Maria Ressa; Carine Kanimba, who campaigned for the return home of her kidnapped father; Dr. Julie Posetti International Center for Journalists; Jodie Ginsberg Committee to Protect Journalists; Laurent Richard Forbidden Stories

With ed bice Vivian Schiller Ritu Kapur moderated by Maggie Farley @journa.host/@maggilista THE AI ELECTIONS #ijf24

Russian scam network circulates Maria Ressa deepfake through Facebook, Microsoft’s Bing rappler.com/technology/mar… via Rappler #ifj24

Join us at the top of the hour #ijf24 security at site

Georgia, Brazil, South Africa & the Philippines - journalists holding communities together based on facts and evidence-based reasoning #IJF24

Superb discussion #ijf24 on how leading international editors are handling disinformation & ‘information pollution’ in a pivotal year for democracy. My brilliant client Maria Ressa is speaking alongside Patricia Campos Mello natalia antelava Branko Brkic; ever-expert moderation by Dr. Julie Posetti.

📖🌹 Las 12 Recomendaciones literarias del
Club Tocqueville para este Sant Jordi.

Con obras de Maria Ressa, John Gray, Teresa Giménez Barbat, Eduardo Moga, Martin Amis, Pablo de Lora, Josep M. Lloveras, Rev. Robert Sirico, o Xavier Pla.

👉 clubtocqueville.com/12-libros-para…

Azerbaijani journalist remanded in latest move against independent media rappler.com/world/europe/a… via Rappler #IJF24