DisinfoDocket 12 June
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Good morning! Don't miss -
* The Light: Inside the UK’s conspiracy theory newspaper that shares violence and hate
* What languages dominate the internet?
* Weaponizing public records: Like climate scientists and election officials before, disinformation researchers are under attack for their work
* The Light: Inside the UK’s conspiracy theory newspaper that shares violence and hate
* What languages dominate the internet?
* Weaponizing public records: Like climate scientists and election officials before, disinformation researchers are under attack for their work
Highlights
- What the chaos at Twitter means for the future of social movements (CNN, 11 June)
- ’Conspiracy theories have become normalised in the UK’, says BBC disinformation correspondent Marianna Spring (iNews, 9 June)
Check out @mdeverna2 interviewed by WISH-TV about our latest tool, Top FIBers:https://t.co/q9Uc88QTP5
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1. Platforms & Technology
- ‘Fundamentally dangerous’: reversal of social media guardrails could prove disastrous for 2024 elections (Guardian, 10 June)
- What languages dominate the internet? (Rest of World, 7 June)
- Reddit CEO Says Keeping Explicit Content on the Site Is a ‘Constant Fight’ (Vice, 9 June)
- Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: ‘These are the people who could actually pause AI if they wanted to’ (Guardian, 11 June)
- From “Heavy Purchasers” of Pregnancy Tests to the Depression-Prone: We Found 650,000 Ways Advertisers Label You (The Markup, 8 June)
Meta
- Meta to appeal court ruling declaring content moderators as its employees (TechCrunch, 9 June)
- Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen warns of algorithmic dangers (Washington Post, 8 June)
- The Meta whistleblower: ‘Fix social media or millions will die’ (Times, 11 June)
- Facebook owner Meta plans to create Twitter rival (BBC, 10 June)
- Oversight Board announces “United States posts discussing abortion” cases (Oversight Board, June)
- Mark Zuckerberg: AI will be built into all of Meta’s products (AI News, 9 June)
- What we know so far about Instagram's Twitter rival (Mashable, 9 June)
- Musk Promised Transparency, Then Hid Twitter Data (Washington Post, 9 June)
- Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment (TechDirt, 9 June)
- Twitter is a troll’s playground — and Elon Musk wants to make life even easier for them (Independent, 10 June)
- Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills, Platformer reports (Reuters, 11 June)
- Twitter to pay verified creators for ads in replies, Musk says (Reuters, 10 June)
- Musk on path to turn Twitter into the next MySpace or Yahoo, co-founder suggests (Ars Technica, 9 June)