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"Optimizing for engagement" is tech-industry shorthand for increasing the time people spend scrolling, swiping or chatting with bots. It's bad enough with old-school social media, but harms are compounded with AI-powered friends, girlfriends, and therapists.
“It’s just exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology,” says one AI researcher.
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New Open MIC newsletter hitting inboxes coast to coast: get the latest on shareholder proposals, AGI hype, ESG pressure, and AI in the military. mailchi.mp/openmic/april-202…
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Shout out to our comrades: @commtechny, @Media2070, @openmicmedia, @LaColectiVA703, @BXEAction, @CoalFreeCurtis, @TeamUpturn, and IndivisibleMoCoWoMen, who are joining us in our #eXit TODAY and helping rebuild our movement base on BlueSky!
Open MIC is joining @mediajustice and others in the Twitter #eXit.
X increasingly limits our ability to connect with people we want to reach, while its owner, @elonmusk, undermines openness, privacy, freedom of expression, and other human rights principles that guide our work.
We'll continue to post on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, with a focus on BlueSky. Please connect with us there: loom.ly/F4aQL48
With corporations around the country rolling over to comply with Trump's anti-DEI crusade, it's refreshing to see a major company buck the trend. @Apple, you're not perfect, but you did the right thing here 👏
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Apple made a strong case to its shareholders to vote against an anti-DEI proposal in its recent AGM. Over 97% of shareholders voted the proposal down.
More via @ESGdive: loom.ly/w_uT-OY
"It’s a relatively small change, but privacy experts worry it could have ripple effects for data privacy around the world."
@Apple removed its "Advanced Data Protection" feature in the UK in response to the government's demand for a security master key.
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Meta's "MAGA Makeover" may not look so attractive to advertisers.
The company is deliberately targeting the LGBTQ community through weaponized language, and employees as well as brands are rightly not OK with that.
"While some of Meta’s advertisers may look the other way and ignore such blatant targeting of the LGBTQ community, I feel confident that many (hopefully most) will not."
More from @JenniOlsonSF of @GLAAD: loom.ly/cGpyiEs
This is the story of how the Episcopal Church leveraged shareholder engagement at @GM to help end South African apartheid.
So much of this still resonates today, not least that corporations do better when they uphold human rights.
✍️ @RyonHarms: loom.ly/BeMvjKs
"We do not invest in companies that do not meet our criteria."
ABP, the pension fund for government workers in the Netherlands, valued at well over $500B, announced that it has fully divested from Tesla, Meta and Alphabet.
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New SEC guidelines imposed at the height of proxy season create a serious roadblock for investor advocates.
@ICCROnline, the Shareholder Rights Group, and @AsYouSow sent a letter to the SEC requesting that they withdraw the changes, at least until after the 2025 proxy season. 🧵
The changes would create a number of challenges:
🔸 Limit ability of shareholders to raise issues of long-term risk for companies
🔸 Unfairly restrict investors' ability to engage with companies
🔸 Further insulate boards and management from different perspectives 🧵
📄 Read the letter here: loom.ly/j3vQg7c
AI tools "were not originally developed to help decide who lives and who dies."
Yet Big Tech is playing a major role in Israel's recent wars, with AI involved in everything from translation to targeting. loom.ly/H2shoVA
There are so many ways that AI and other emerging tech affects workers – especially low-wage workers. Investors need to know the risks their companies are creating, and taking on, by continuing to push harmful tech tools.
💡More in our investor brief: loom.ly/miv9uM4
Even after calling EU rule "censorship" in January, Meta still pledged to do its part to fight disinformation on its platforms. So did over 40 other tech companies, with the notable exception of X.
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