Tactical Tech ✅ @info_activism@mastodon.cc
We are an international NGO that engages with citizens and civil-society organisations to explore the impacts of technology on society T/RT/Like ≠ endorsement
Joined Apr 2017
RT @onthinktanks@twitter.com
🎬 OTT Talks: @safanator@twitter.com from @Info_Activism@twitter.com tell us about her work on #data privacy, and #digital security.
Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpFHFm4WhJo
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/onthinktanks/status/1308039662632611840
RT @Global_Witness@twitter.com
We've got news!📍
We're combining our investigative power🕵️, our advocacy skills 📣 and our data brains 🧠 to take on the Big Tech companies profiting from spreading hate and division and ultimately harming our democratic rights.
A thread 👇
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Global_Witness/status/1305797572980805632
RT @InternetFF@twitter.com
Join us on the next Asia Monthly Meetup! 💖 Connect with other digital rights defenders next Wednesday, October 14 at Delhi 13:30 (UTC+5:30) / Taipei-Kuala Lumpur 16:00 (UTC+8) / Tokyo 17:00 (UTC+9) 🥳
👉🏽 All the details here: https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/Asia_Monthly_Meetups
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/InternetFF/status/1307970069859840000
RT @nonprofit_cat@twitter.com
▶️ 'Data Detox x Youth', an activity book to take control of technology
https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/news/data-detox-x-youth-activity-book-take-control-technology @Info_Activism@twitter.com #technology
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/nonprofit_cat/status/1307726216900653070
RT @doctorow@twitter.com
I have a favor to ask of you. I don't often ask readers for stuff, but this is maybe the most important ask of my career. It's a Kickstarter - I know, 'another crowdfunder?' - but it's:
a) Really cool;
b) Potentially transformative for publishing.
c) Anti-monopolistic
1/
Shifting smoke - How wildfires ravaging the U.S. West Coast are sending smoke between continents and up to record heights in the atmosphere. https://graphics.reuters.com/USA-WILDFIRE/POLLUTION/xlbpgjgervq/index.html
Global Energy Flows 2018/2050 http://www.sankey-diagrams.com/global-energy-flows-2018-2050-dnvgl/
Patagonia sells out of shorts with tags that read ‘Vote the Assholes Out’ https://www.fastcompany.com/90551636/patagonia-sells-out-of-shorts-with-tags-that-read-vote-the-assholes-out
RT @hipsterelectron@twitter.com
this account seems awesome — and just as a note on the difficulty of finding truly unbiased information on the situation, this is the scene that presented itself to me as i opened the article:
“facebook amplifies propaganda”
...
just below, a video:
“How to Use Instagram Reels” https://twitter.com/info_activism/status/1307323308304728064
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/hipsterelectron/status/1307346447281434624
RT @eyewitnessorg@twitter.com
Check out this must read from Tactical Tech @Info_Activism@twitter.com about gathering visual evidence. It has great tips for anyone using photos and videos to document atrocities and war crimes. #Justice #Democracy http://ow.ly/Zcmf50Bq8WL
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/eyewitnessorg/status/1306926406480416772
RT @ForensicArchi@twitter.com
7yrs ago tonight, #pavlosfyssas was murdered in Athens by a member of the neo-Nazi group Golden Dawn. Soon, the verdict in the #GDtrial will finally be delivered: we hope & expect a measure of justice will be done for Pavlos' death. Our investigation: https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/the-murder-of-pavlos-fyssas
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ForensicArchi/status/1306902552865366016
Ethical Explorer - Tools to help navigate the future impact of today’s technology https://ethicalexplorer.org/ @OmidyarNetwork@twitter.com
RT @neintara@twitter.com
If you share our curiosity about this and would like to speak, write to us at info@ad.watch
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RT @neintara@twitter.com
- to download and dig into political advertising in 98 new countries in addition to the existing 39 countries
https://counterpublics.mur.at
(3/n)
RT @neintara@twitter.com
Some ways you can use this:
- to test the effectiveness of political ads transparency as a self-regulatory or legislative framework, & its limits
- to understand massive geographic discrepancies in the application of political ads transparency on FACEBOOK Inc.
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RT @Beltrandroid@twitter.com
If you share our curiosity about this and would like to speak, write to us at info@ad.watch
(6/6)
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Beltrandroid/status/1306015570970718212
RT @Beltrandroid@twitter.com
Counterpublics has so far liberated data of over 15 million different political ads across Google, Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Youtube, Twitter, Snapchat, Reddit, AdSense, AdWords and Audience Network. Accessible both as interfaces and raw data.
(3/6)
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Beltrandroid/status/1306015564486377472
RT @Beltrandroid@twitter.com
The archive is built with the operation of *counterpublics*, a multi-tentacled infrastructure, initially presented as an installation in esc medien kunst labor, it has since found a virtual home at @murpunktat@twitter.com.
https://ad.watch/counterpublics.html
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🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Beltrandroid/status/1306015562015875073
A new country study from our Data & Politics team, based on a report by @TetyUAna@twitter.com, looks at targeted political communication in #Ukraine. Find out how personal data is used in #Ukrainian political campaigns: https://ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org/posts/overview-ukraine/ @gi_ukraine@twitter.com
RT @nadinebh_@twitter.com
There’s a load of alternative websites and apps you can use to fight back too - here’s some examples, and here’s a link to a list of them 👉🏽 https://datadetoxkit.org/en/alternative-app-centre
(and no, I’m not being paid to do this - I’m legit fucking terrified by what’s happening, we all need to fight it)
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/nadinebh_/status/1304904358933528581
We are an international NGO that engages with citizens and civil-society organisations to explore the impacts of technology on society T/RT/Like ≠ endorsement
Joined Apr 2017
