Disinfo Docket 14 October
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Highlights
If you are on X, you should read this, by @noUpside: this site is now dedicated to creating an alternate, far-right reality https://t.co/yiHMv7FXzl
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) October 12, 2024
Core themes for the April Cambridge Disinformation Summit:
— Alan Jagolinzer (@jagolinzer) October 13, 2024
1) Efficacy of interventions of disinformation harms
2) Managing threats
3) Crypto influencers
4) Legislating interventions, including potential overreach https://t.co/onNlJ0cif3@CambridgeJBS @CambPsych
- EVENT: Violence, Politics, & Democracy initiative Speaker Series (Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation)
- EVENT: AI and the Environment: Sustaining the Common Good (Markkula Center, 1 November)
- The CCP's Digital Charm Offensive: How TikTok's Search Algorithm and Pro-China Influence Networks Indoctrinate GenZ Users in the United States (Network Contagion, October)
1. Academia & Research
- Misinformation is a threat to society – let’s not pretend otherwise (LSE, 12 October)
- The Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity: Shifting the Offense-Defense Balance (IST, October)
2. Platforms & Technology
- TikTok’s research reportedly acknowledges negative effects on teens (Tech Crunch, 12 October)
- Inside the TikTok documents: Stripping teens and boosting 'attractive' people (NPR, 13 October)
- TikTok can become addictive in less than 35 minutes, documents show (Times, 14 October)
- ByteDance's TikTok cuts hundreds of jobs in shift towards AI content moderation (Reuters, 11 October)
- How have social media algorithms changed the way we interact? (BBC, 13 October)
- Trump campaign worked with Musk’s X to keep leaked JD Vance file off platform (Guardian, 12 October)
- Twitter Barred Them. What Happened When Elon Musk Brought Them Back? (NYT, 12 October)
- Using ChatGPT to make fake social media posts backfires on bad actors (ArsTechnica, 10 October)
- What are digital arrests, the newest deepfake tool used by cybercriminals? (Al Jazeera, 11 October)