Disinfo Docket 19 August
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— Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (@BKCHarvard) August 18, 2024
- Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation (OpenAI, 16 August)
- Election Deniers Secretly Pushed Rule That Would Make It Easier to Delay Certification of Georgia’s Election Results (ProPublica, 18 August)
1. Platforms & Technology
- Elon Musk said he’d eliminate bots from X. Instead, election influence campaigns are running wild (Rest of World, 16 August)
- Can We Finally Stop Pretending Elon Musk Is A “Free Speech Absolutist”? He’s Not (Tech Dirt, 16 August)
- X says it’s closing operations in Brazil (Tech Crunch, 17 August)
- ‘Threads is just deathly dull’: have Twitter quitters found what they are looking for on other networks? (Guardian, 18 August)
- Documents reveal Meta’s bias in moderating Arabic content over Hebrew (New Arab, 17 August)
- Meta draws fresh questions from EU over its CrowdTangle shut-down (Tech Crunch, 16 August)
2. Russia & Ukraine
- Russian propagandists are still targeting Americans in influence operations, Meta says (NBC, 15 August)