DisinfoDocket 13 December
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* The Rise and Fall Of Facebook’s Politics Obsession
* Seven EU member states want to legalise spying on journalists through EMFA
* Microsoft Reports Russian Disinformation Campaign Leveraging Cameo for Celebrity Videos...
Highlights:
- Advice for covering elections in the age of social media (IJNet, 12 December)
- Pro-Putin Disinformation Warriors Take War of Aggression to Reddit (CEPA, 12 December)
- Analysis | A new benchmark on the right's descent into surreality (The Washington Post, 11 December)
- A year in the life of a clinical fact checker (Full Fact, 12 December)
“What comes first, being a journalist or being a citizen?”
— Nieman Foundation (@niemanfdn) December 12, 2023
Yana Lyushnevskaya, NF '24, on the difficult dilemma Ukrainian journalists face when covering war in their own country https://t.co/Ub2R4vK7sy
1. Academia & Research
- Changing Newsrooms 2023: Media leaders struggle to embrace diversity in full and remain cautious on AI disruption (Reuters Institute, 5 December)
- Hostility has a trivial effect on persuasiveness of rebutting science denialism on social media (Nature, 11 December)
- Manosphere influencers are promoting abuse and violence against women (Media Matters for America, 11 December)
Research round-up!
— Center for Media Engagement (@EngagingNews) December 12, 2023
How an online game can bridge political divides https://t.co/Jz1HwAXO2t
Pro- & anti-abortion activists’ folk theories of platform governance & shadowbanning https://t.co/bWbIlUC5xD
The role of social media in Iraq’s Tishreen Movement https://t.co/MUB2r7i0hc
2. Platforms & Technology
- The White House’s private fears over the rise of AI in the Middle East (The Telegraph, 10 December)
- How Big Tech is buying influence in academia (Coda Story, 8 December)
X (Twitter)
- Australian government continues to advertise on X after Elon Musk’s anti-Semitic post (Crikey, 11 December)
- Elon Musk fact-checked on X by his own system - but claims it has been 'gamed by state actors' (Sky News, 11 December)
- Elon Musk's misinformation about Canada a dangerous sign (Toronto Star, 11 December)
- Musk’s X 2023 Ad Sales Projected to Slump to About $2.5 Billion (Bloomberg, 12 December)