Adele Zeynep Walton
Author, online safety campaigner, journalist, hater of tech bros.
adelesnotes.co.uk
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- Logging Off Club has a website so you can easily start your own or find your local club 📍 🌎 Go and check it out, and join the club! www.loggingoffclub.com
- Really looking forward to speaking alongside @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social and @couldrynick.bsky.social at this event! 17 March, London 📍 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reclaiming...
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- Reposted by Adele Zeynep WaltonAdele Walton’s sister Aimee died at 21 after going on a notorious self-harm forum. But when Adele approached a tech CEO to talk about online safety at a Davos debate, she was threatened with removal @adelewalton.bsky.social for the Nerve on why it matters when tech companies do not show humanity👇🔗
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- Reposted by Adele Zeynep Walton@crtl-alt-reclaimfr.bsky.social started out as a small bootcamp in Summer'24 - bringing together young people from around Europe who wanted to do something about the harm that social media was doing to young lives. Now it’s a pan-European movement, see Guardian: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
- Reposted by Adele Zeynep WaltonIncredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault
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- I wrote about my thoughts on Instagram’s repost feature. It’s a smart and sinister move to keep us hooked at a time when posting on social media platforms feels too icky. loggingoffclub.substack.com/p/new-instag...
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- my latest for @theobserveruk.bsky.social
- Spoke at the Lush 30th anniversary this week about my book and why I became an online safety campaigner 💜
- My idol turned mentor interviewed me for my debut book last night 🥹 @graceblakeley.substack.com
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- Can't wait to be in Bristol next week discussing all things Big Tech, the broligarchy and logging off with @graceblakeley.substack.com. Get your tickets here: www.bookhausbristol.com/events/#e127...
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- Logging Off in Manchester! 💜
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- CALL TO ACTION: email your internet provider to urge them to block access to the toxic forum responsible for at least 97 UK deaths including my sister. Template letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- Logging Off listed as one of @glamour.com ‘s top June reads! 💜 blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
- In @telegraphnews.bsky.social today speaking about the systemic failure to keep young people safe online. I wrote Logging Off in the hopes that no one else experience the pain that my family have, but until tech companies are hold to account, there will continue to be victims of online harm.
- Spoke on BBC Radio 4 for Start The Week with @dannydorling.bsky.social🎙️on why fighting against big tech means tackling addictive design at the root, and the need to hold MPs to account for regulating social media companies. Listen back here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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- Meeting Tony back in 2022 when he shared an ad for help with his smartphone changed my view of the digital world. His was one of the many human stories that inspired me to write Logging Off. Spoke to The Telegraph about our intergenerational friendship!
- A dream launch for Logging Off last night at @scarlettletters.co.uk 🥹♥️
- Loved chatting to @alixdunn.com on this week’s episode of Computer Says Maybe! Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/2Z97...
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- “It's a timely and useful record of what it means to have grown up online.” Thank you @thetimes.com for this review of Logging Off, ahead of publication day tomorrow! www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
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- Pleased to speak to @politico.com about the Labour government’s poor and performative stance on online safety for their Morning Technology Newsletter ❗️
- Spoke to Center for the Study of Organised Hate for their latest blog about how #addictivealgorithms expose users to harm, the importance of making #safetybydesign a foundational principle in tech development. Have a read: www.csohate.org/2025/05/31/s...
- It's publication week and today I'm in @theipaper.com speaking about Logging Off, my sister's story and what the government could do to keep other vulnerable people safe online. inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
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- Really enjoyed speaking on this episode of Data and The City from @cpdpconferences.bsky.social last week 👩🏻💻 open.spotify.com/episode/08h2...
- OMG LOGGING OFF SPOTTED IN UK BOOKSHOPS FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!!!
- In The Guardian in print and online today speaking about the catalyst that triggered me to write Logging Off, and changed my life forever. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- Walton, 25, a journalist, pieced together that Aimee had spent time on a pro-suicide forum that the Guardian has chosen not to name. The site has been connected to at least 50 deaths in the UK, and is now being investigated by the regulator Ofcom under the Online Safety Act.
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- Really enjoyed speaking at @cpdpconferences.bsky.social as part of the AI Vulnerability and Dependency on Social Media Panel alongside @kimvsparrentak.bsky.social and other great contributors 🇪🇺
- Early copies of Logging Off are in Librebook Brussels! First time seeing my book in a bookshop🥲
- Polling shows that nine in 10 people support policies that prioritise children’s safety online, even if it means tech companies investing significantly less in the UK. @mollyroseorg.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- This Friday! Come along
- BRUSSELS BOOK TALK📍 I’ll be speaking at Librebook about Logging Off on the 23rd May, where early copies of the book will be available to buy librebook.eu/en_GB/event/...
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- "Angela Rayner approves £1bn Abbots Langley data centre" AI hype is a disaster for people and planet. www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/2515725...
- Really looking forward to speaking at Oxford @blackwells.bsky.social on 9th June about my book Logging Off, where I'll also be signing copies! 📕 Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/adele-zeyn...
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- Reposted by Adele Zeynep WaltonJune 6 @ 1 pm ET! Join authors @emilymbender.bsky.social, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and @karenhao.bsky.social as they discuss their must-read new books exposing AI hype and tech industry power with D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social. datasociety.net/events/chall...
- rare to see good news in the world of tech policy right now, but Beeban Kidron is a champion of humanity www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- our latest guest newsletter just dropped on loggingoffclub.substack.com and it's juicy - a conversation between a chronically online gf and dumbphone user partner
- Snippet from my latest substack 📧 loggingoffclub.substack.com/p/i-had-neve...
- mashallah ♥️
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- BRUSSELS BOOK TALK📍 I’ll be speaking at Librebook about Logging Off on the 23rd May, where early copies of the book will be available to buy librebook.eu/en_GB/event/...
- "What's the point of sending something we didn't write, reading a newspaper written by bots, listening to a song created by AI, or me making a bit more money by sacking my administrator who has four kids?" @zetteler.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Last few tickets left for my London book launch at The Scarlett Letters bookshop in Bethnal Green 💜 www.scarlettletters.co.uk/event-detail...
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- Reposted by Adele Zeynep Walton“I asked ChatGPT,” well I asked your mom and she said you’ve always been a disappointment
- Reposted by Adele Zeynep Waltonthe state of Twitter: you can reply to any image of a woman with a request to Grok to undress her to her underwear and it will comply and post the reply in thread: www.404media.co/elon-musks-g...
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- ban addictive design
- Reposted by Adele Zeynep Waltonhonestly kind of disappointing to see this policy approach spreading. the hard age limit is the easy path that doesn’t address the root of the problem: how the platforms are designed to work, which regulation should be used to change.
- great book for those who love gossip just as much as they dislike big tech x
- Looking forward to speaking on this panel in Brussels later this month!
- "What is new about our present moment is that the method we have chosen to alleviate boredom in the short term has negative long-term impacts on our attention spans and our ability to practice patience." www.afterbabel.com/p/on-the-dea...
