The World Unspun 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.
To send a GDPR objection email to Meta to exercise your rights against unwanted direct marketing and data misuse, visit; https://wwwdot.org/.
You can find out more about Adele and her work at: www.adelesnotes.co.uk/
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)
No billionaires. No media moguls. No corporate ads. Just truly independent, co-operative media. To help us continue
Subscribe today and use the code THEWORLDUNSPUN for 20% off your first year of a print or digital subscription.
Sign up to Currents for dispatches from the frontlines of global progressive movements. 30 days FREE then £3/month. Learn more