NEWSPAPER
Between Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp, Meta is able to extract behavioural data about half of the humans living on Earth. The monopoly over our means of communication is massive.
In an age where every click, like and share is meticulously tracked, packaged and sold, the corporate-owned social media platforms we use daily have become digital panopticons — prisons of our own making.
The cost of this arrangement is staggering: the erosion of privacy, the amplification of hate, the spread of misinformation and the silencing of marginalised voices. These platforms do not serve us; they exploit us, and in doing so, they undermine the very foundations of a free and equitable society.
In today’s political climate, we have a collective responsibility not to participate in corporate-own social media, which has real-world consequences, from eroding historical realities and mass manipulation to political polarisation.
We know these platforms prioritise engagement over accuracy, allowing harmful content to proliferate farther, faster, deeper and more broadly than the truth, while censoring scientific figures, civilians journalists, dedicated activists and on-the-ground reporters.
By divesting from corporate-own social media, we boycott these systems of inequality and exploitation, and support alternatives that prioritise fairness and equity. It is time we use tools that enhance rather than undermine our capacity for connection, action and social change, where our data isn’t a commodity, where our voice isn’t manipulated by algorithms designed to keep us scrolling silently.
Author: Anaïs Nony
Mail & Guardian, February 21 to 27 2025
NEWSPAPER
The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the genocide unfolding in Gaza has revealed how AI-powered technology is causing unprecedented annihilation through killer drones, remote-controlled quadcopters, precision-guided smart bombs, programmed kill lists and targeting systems. What is unfolding in Gaza today is a culmination of decades of civilian technologies that are being repurposed for genocidal acts. The role of AI systems in unleashing this horror lies in widespread, mundane and everyday technologies developed during peacetime, such as biometric surveillance, predictive policing and algorithmic curation of social media to promote behavioural obedience.
Authors: Amrita Pande & Anaïs Nony
Mail & Guardian, July 12 to 18 2024
NEWSPAPER
The machine has no body, no emotions, such as empathy, and no duties, such as responsibility. Yet, in every machine resides a human reality that speaks to the intent of the inventor and the moral value of the team of engineers that imagined, programmed and developed the machine.
In the case of the genocide of Palestinians, the AI-programmed systems are killing in an automated fashion, revealing the human-generated intention behind the horror. Such as human intention demonstrates the long-gone ideal of the rule of international law and the much needed update of its jurisdiction.
Authors: Amrita Pande & Anaïs Nony
Mail & Guardian, June 2024
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NEWSPAPER
Artificial Intelligence has two main functions in the Israeli war on besieged Gaza: sustain propaganda and generate more targets. While debates on machine learning question the threat of AI for humanity, AI assisted bombardments reveal a new magnitude of algorithmically programmed death in times of warfare.
To understand the shift in the making of digital- driven fascist regimes, where technological advancement supports mass-manipulation and dehumanisation, we must understand the rise of algorithmic obedience and the instrumentarian power of AI. In 2024, the loosening of army protocols in the name of AI-driven accuracy serves a global economy where international laws are being highjacked in front of our eyes. As such, we (the comrades combating for freedom over the world) are the living witness of a digital regime that has drastic consequences for the future of justice, and solidarity.
Mail & Guardian, Feb. 2, 2024, p. 31.
To read a longer version of this article, please go to La Furia Umana, “The Instrumentarian Power of Artificial Intelligence in Data-Driven Fascist Regimes”.
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In this interview, I present how to restructure society via the creation of meaningful relations to new media technologies. My goal is to encourage people to dream again and to build collective tools that can reshape the collective trajectories of societies. I thank Lowell for his time and camaraderie. You can access the podcast directly on his website.