Disinfo Docket 15 July

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Highlights

1. Ending Suspension of Trump’s Accounts With New Guardrails to Deter Repeat Offenses (Meta, 12 July)
2. Misinformation spreads swiftly in hours after Trump rally shooting (Washington Post, 14 July)

1. Academia & Research

1. More fun with Community Notes data: Use of X's crowdsourced fact-checking system has steadily grown over time, but so has the practice of using other X posts as sources for notes (Conspirator Norteño, 14 July)
2. Online manipulation expert Renée DiResta: ‘Conspiracy theories shape our politics in extremely mainstream ways’ (Guardian, 14 July)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. Meta Is Getting Rid of CrowdTangle—and Its Replacement Isn’t as Transparent or Accessible (CJR, 9 July)
2. OpenAI promised to make its AI safe. Employees say it ‘failed’ its first test. (Washington Post, 12 July)
   1. OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say (Washington Post, 13 July)
3. Training AI requires more data than we have — generating synthetic data could help solve this challenge (Conversation, 14 July)
4. Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales warns of addictive nature of social media (Nikkei Asia, 14 July)

Meta

1. Meta remove restrictions on Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts (Independent, 13 July)

X (Twitter)

1. EU charges Elon Musk’s X for letting disinfo run wild (Politico, 12 July)
   1. EU threatens Musk’s X with a fine of up to 6% of global turnover (The Record, 12 July)
2. How effective were Community Notes on X during elections in India and the U.K.? (Logically, 9 July)