Andy Burrows
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CEO @mollyroseorg / tech accountability / good trouble / ‘launcher of PDF missiles’ (Playbook)
London, UK
Joined January 2018
Today, @mollyroseorg urges the next Govt to commit to five transformative policies that can reset the relationship between tech firms and child safety. It’s time for a new #OnlineSafetyAct & a bold new tech accountability framework. Read here: https://t.co/1w8bkT3fBM
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Tech accountability, 2025 edition
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This is a superb explainer ahead of tomorrow - the clearest explanation I’ve seen of why the UK’s productivity gap is a chokehold on our finances
📽️What on earth is "fiscal drag"? Why will it form the centrepiece of @RachelReevesMP's efforts to raise money this week? Why are Budgets getting ever more complex? And could this one backfire like @George_Osborne's omnishambles? All this and more in my 11m(!) primer👇
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“It's so disheartening that politicians seem unable to learn the lessons from a decade of social media." - Our CEO @_andyburrows
'A predator in your home': Mothers say chatbots encouraged their sons to kill themselves
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UPDATE: @Ofcom now digging themselves further in knots, saying they acted on ‘new evidence’ that, if they were monitoring the forum properly, they’d have known was being bragged about on the forum all along. This is now raising serious questions about their competency.
On @SkyNews our CEO @_andyburrows says Ofcom must now use all the tools at their disposal to crack down on a pro-suicide forum. It comes after families said they were appalled and dismayed at Ofcom's handling of its investigation.
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On @SkyNews our CEO @_andyburrows says Ofcom must now use all the tools at their disposal to crack down on a pro-suicide forum. It comes after families said they were appalled and dismayed at Ofcom's handling of its investigation.
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Internal data shows that Meta expected to generate 10% of its overall revenue from scam ads. This company is out of control and is a threat to economic growth
reuters.com
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods.
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Over 800 people joined our @mollyroseorg campaign to push for a public inquiry yesterday. Join them here:
Online forums promoting suicide are still running despite being responsible for more than 130 deaths, survivors and bereaved families have told @Keir_Starmer @_andyburrows @mollyroseorg @PeterWanless @leicesterliz @PoliceInspForum @DannyShawNews
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Is this being done before or after the two-thirds of existing Teen Accounts features that fundamentally don’t work get fixed, Andy? Asking for tens of millions of parents.
As @instagram's Adam @mosseri said, "we've revamped all of our all of guidelines about what teens can and cannot see on Instagram in a way that is guided by the PG-13 rating that was pioneered by the movie industry."
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In the context of this, remember that: - Ofcom delayed the adoption of measures to detect known terror content - Peter Kyle signed off on small but high harm sites not being regulated to the standard for which Parliament allowed, despite the clear calls by antisemitism groups
NEW: Bloomberg Saturday read — Counter-terrorism police and the security services are confronting what they fear is an increased long-term terror threat in Britain inspired by the conflict in Gaza, as well as rising antisemitism and greater operational difficulties in stopping
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Appalling revelations from @jeffhorwitz that Meta pushed out Teen Accounts promising protection from harmful content such as self-harm, despite internal warnings that its automated detection systems weren’t capable of delivering this @mollyroseorg @Ofcom
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Hey @andymstone, thanks so much for sharing our report with your followers! In case you haven't read it yet, we provide full results of the testing done by one of your ex-employees & the academic research center @cyber4democracy. Look forward to you similarly showing your work,
fairplayforkids.org
This is an opinion, it is not a fact. It is a highly subjective, misleading assessment that repeatedly misrepresents our efforts and misstates how our safety tools work and how many millions of parents and teens are using them today.
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Meta’s spinner in chief rejects research produced by a consortium of civil society groups, academics and former senior Meta staff, relying on unspecified and unpublished internal data. Classic.
This is an opinion, it is not a fact. It is a highly subjective, misleading assessment that repeatedly misrepresents our efforts and misstates how our safety tools work and how many millions of parents and teens are using them today.
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JUST OUT: new analysis from @mollyroseorg @fairplayforkids @cyber4democracy & whistleblower Arturo Bejar finds systemic failings in Meta’s Teen Accounts, with major shortcomings in 2/3 of its safety tools. Read the report here: https://t.co/iVKKKarX3m
#MetaFailsTeens
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Didn’t have a Trump Administration pivot from the First Amendment to European human rights jurisprudence on my bingo card.
Attorney General Pam Bondi: "There's free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society...We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."
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Tune in at 2:15pm tomorrow for our session with @NSPCC, @mollyroseorg and Baroness Kidron. We will be examining Ofcom's proposals for additional safety measures under the Online Safety Act. More information here:
committees.parliament.uk
14:00 - Room 3, Palace of Westminster
📝 In committees, the @LordsCommsCom hears from Baroness Kidron and the @NSPCC about the Online Safety Act. In addition, the @LordsJHACom speaks to Lord Timpson, Minister of State for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending. ➡️ See full schedule
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A timely post after my Twitter feed repeatedly played graphic close-ups of Charlie Kirk being fatally shot. (And something that might’ve been avoided if certain politicians who watered down the #OnlineSafetyAct knew the difference between content moderation & safety-by-design.)
Here’s how to disable video autoplay on social media platforms like X, Facebook, and YouTube. Others, like Instagram and TikTok, aren’t as easy.
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Frances Haugen. Arturo Bejar. Sarah Wynn-Williams. Jason Sattizahn. Cayce Savage. All blew the whistle against Meta for putting profits over people’s safety. Profiles in courage.
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Meta whistleblower Cayce Savage at hearing: "Meta has failed to prioritize child safety until they are scrutinized by outside regulators. Then they scramble to develop features they know are inefficient and largely unused and advertise this as proof of their responsibility."
Senate @JudiciaryDems @senjudiciarygop hearing on Meta and Child Safety Research – LIVE online here: https://t.co/qnO1d4XBBN
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