Defending our digital rights with Adele Zeynep Walton

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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’ (https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/ade...) , 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/ (http://www.adelesnotes.co.uk/)


Read (https://newint.org/issues/2025/01/06/...) NI552: Disinformation (https://newint.org/issues/2024/11/11/...)


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 (https://www.instagram.com/adele_walto...)


Further Reading from this Episode:


Entering the matrix of misinformation with Nanjala Nyabola (https://newint.org/science-and-techno...) (The World Unspun Podcast)


The issue with social media blocking apps? They’re now just as addictive (https://observer.co.uk/news/science-t...) (Adele Zeynep Walton, The Observer)


‘Meta must be held liable for Facebook abuse that killed my father’ (https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050...) (Mukanzi Musanga, Open Democracy)


How to Fix the Online Safety Act: A Rights First Approach (https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publi...) (Open Rights Group)


Disinformation and disorder: the limits of the Online Safety Act (https://www.onlinesafetyact.net/analy...) (Alexandros Antoniou, Lorna Woods and Maeve Walsh, Online Safety Act Network)


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