Disinfo Docket 11 November

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Highlights
New memo from me:
— Adam Kovacevich (@adamkovac) November 6, 2024
5 Takeaways on what Trump means for tech & innovation policy:
1. The "Trump Welfare Standard"
2. Content Moderation Under Fire
3. Lefty Tech Critics Pivot to Blue States
4. Antagonizing China & Europe
5. Republican Reversals of Agency Aggression
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- The curious case of the Election Day follower exodus (Conspirator Norteño, 8 November)
- State Department Division That Battles Foreign Disinformation Faces Closure (WSJ, 10 November)
- Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa on the US election, the decline of democracy and how we must all hold the line (Tatler, 8 November)
- Our Response to the Government of Canada's order to Shut-Down TikTok Canada (TikTok, 6 November)
- Canada Shuts Down TikTok Office Over National Security Risks (Forbes, 9 November)
1. Platforms & Technology
“ISD found that [X] users were misidentifying [AI-generated] content in 52% of cases, often claiming authentic content was AI-generated and justifying their assessments with flawed OSINT strategies or unreliable online tools.”https://t.co/uxVOQxlAil
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) November 9, 2024
- How Tech Created a ‘Recipe for Loneliness’ (NYT, 10 November)
- She Was a Child Instagram Influencer. Her Fans Were Grown Men. (NYT, 10 November)
- AI didn’t sway the election, but it deepened the partisan divide (Washington Post, 9 November)
- French minister to Musk: Don’t break democracy like you did Twitter (Politico, 10 November)
- Large Behavior Models Surpass Large Language Models To Create AI That Walks And Talks (Forbes, 10 November)
- LISTEN: Viral "Organ harvesting" myth prompts concern about social media use (ABC, 10 November)
2. Russia & Ukraine
🇺🇸🇲🇩 Russian actors deployed similar tactics against Moldova's two elections and the US election.
— Alliance for Securing Democracy (@SecureDemocracy) November 9, 2024
ASD's @doroshishka and Bret Schafer lay out why the Moldovan and US examples could signal a new page in the Kremlin's election interference playbook. ⤵️https://t.co/RJtLTe4nsF