Good news: According to Department of Education officials, new Title IX regulations 'could address the disturbing trend of pornographic deepfake images circulating in schools' as a form of sex discrimination. 19thnews.org/2024/04/biden-… Cyber Civil Rights Initiative

columbia students have literally been sprayed with chemical weapons, arrested, charged, evicted, suspended, and threatened with almost every other kind of discipline and retaliation by a highly punitive/hostile institution....this escalation is so brave!

YouTube hosted more than 100 ads and tutorials for AI 'nudifier' apps, some reportedly used by high school students. After Forbes reached out, the video streaming giant took them down. Brilliant story by Thomas Brewster

This is brilliant. Academics can provide sponsorship, share resources, and offer virtual classrooms for students from Gaza. There's a form you can fill out to indicate how you can contribute 👇

This report is super useful for those of us studying misogyny on TikTok.

Congrats on your brilliant work Professor Debbie Ging Dr Catherine R. Baker Maja Brandt Andreasen 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Starting tomorrow! asc.upenn.edu/news-events/ev… Annenberg School Center on Digital Culture and Society Sociology at Penn arseli Jun Liu Anne Kaun Elisabetta Ferrari Jinsook Kim Zoe Zhao 夕岸 Joe Yizhou Xu, PhD

Young Muslims are too afraid to speak out due to Prevent - nadeine 🇵🇸 on the damaging impact of the counter-terrorism programme on schoolchildren hyphenonline.com/2024/04/17/you…

The new law is based on the perpetrator's intent to cause harm, rather than the victim's consent.

We've seen with other offences how difficult intent is to evidence - enabling perpetrators to evade justice.

We call on government to close this loophole ‼️
endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk/government-cri…

This is a historic tech action.

A long proud tradition. From Polaroid workers rejecting their work contributing to S Africa's passbooks, to the MIT research strike where scientists refused to work for warfare; to Geoff Hinton relocating to Canada to avoid building US weapons.

USC announced that valedictorian Asna Tabassum’s commencement speech has been canceled, stating it was “necessary to maintain the safety of our campus and students”

‘I am surprised that my own university has abandoned me,’ Tabassum said in a statement

uscannenbergmedia.com/2024/04/15/pro…

I'm writing about the 8-hour sleep norm, based on a century of men as a research subjects, and women's multigenerational exhaustion. Clinical trials, for example, almost always excluded women, esp of reproductive age. Please share any research sources/experts!

'He wanted a girlfriend and he's got no social skills...' says the father man who killed 5 women and a man in Sydney. 'Mental illness' will inevitably be cited , but when do we honestly deal with the intersections of violent misogyny & mental illness? bbc.com/news/world-688…

Professor Ruha Benjamin (Ruha Benjamin) using her honorary degree address at Spelman to denounce Atlanta’s Cop City, the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and the repression of student activists 💜

1) Ashley James did an absolutely beautiful job of putting this to bed and she deserves props

2) Black and Brown people have been saying this forever and it speaks *volumes* that a powerful white woman saying it gets their respect and this level of response online

Scholarships, fellowships, and other initiatives to support Palestinian students and academics

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

.Dr. Mary Anne Franks begins by challenging broad interpretations of Section 230, arguing that the “Good Samaritan” provision has bestowed immunity on bad actors.

Congress must fix the law, she says, “before the 26 words that created the internet destroy everything else.”

After doing everything possible to break me, my rapist’s lawyer told the jury that I was “the strong one”. Well, I wasn’t broken, my rapist was convicted, and now after a successful complaint, that same lawyer is facing disciplinary action. So yeah… I AM the strong one! 💪🏽⚖️

London Tonight ♥️🇵🇸

Since 2018, 18 women have died, after they reported their domestic violence to West Yorkshire Police.

Kulsuma Akter is the 19th.

West Yorkshire Police calls her predictable, preventable murder a 'tragic incident'.
Sounds nicer than 'police failure'.
bbc.com/news/uk-englan…

I hope people read all the way to the end of this Lorena O'Neil piece in Rolling Stone that highlights Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's experiences with #deepfake attacks: 'I'm not going anywhere. Deal with it.' rollingstone.com/culture/cultur… Cyber Civil Rights Initiative