Defending our digital rights with Adele Zeynep Walton

In this episode we speak to Adele Zeynep Walton, a journalist, digital safety campaigner and author of the new book ‘Logging Off: The Human Cost of our Digital World’, about online harms, Big Tech accountability, and how to make the digital world safer.

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You can find out more about Adele and her work at: www.adelesnotes.co.uk/

Read NI552: Disinformation

Host: Paula Lacey

Credits: Paula Lacey (Editorial Assistant, Producer), Maxine Betteridge-Moes (Digital Editor), Amy Hall, Bethany Rielly, Conrad Landin, Nick Dowson (Co-Editors), Samuel Rafanell-Williams (Sound Design), Nazik Hamza (Audio Editor), Mari Fouz (Logo Design), Thomas Barlow, Impress (Media Consultant)

Guest: Adele Walton

Further Reading from this Episode:

Entering the matrix of misinformation with Nanjala Nyabola (The World Unspun Podcast)

The issue with social media blocking apps? They’re now just as addictive (Adele Zeynep Walton, The Observer)

‘Meta must be held liable for Facebook abuse that killed my father’ (Mukanzi Musanga, Open Democracy)

How to Fix the Online Safety Act: A Rights First Approach (Open Rights Group)

Disinformation and disorder: the limits of the Online Safety Act (Alexandros Antoniou, Lorna Woods and Maeve Walsh, Online Safety Act Network)

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