DisinfoDocket 1 March
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* Reuters reporters' online accounts faked to approach China activists
* Canada Follows U.S., Europe With TikTok Ban on Government Devices
* Taiwan to criminalise spreading rumours
* A Tale of Two Insurrections: Lessons for Disinformation Research From the Jan. 6 and 8 Attacks
* Reuters reporters' online accounts faked to approach China activists
* Canada Follows U.S., Europe With TikTok Ban on Government Devices
* Taiwan to criminalise spreading rumours
* A Tale of Two Insurrections: Lessons for Disinformation Research From the Jan. 6 and 8 Attacks
Highlights:
- Submission by Human Rights Watch to the Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media (Human Rights Watch, 17 February)
- ChatGPT: New AI system, old bias? Here's how this powerful tech can become more accurate and inclusive. (Mashable, 27 February)
- Ukraine war: Viral conspiracy theories falsely claim the war is fake (BBC, 27 February)
- No reward without risk: Addressing the economic impacts of misinformation and other digital harms on MSMEs (CDA, February)
EVENT: OPC And IWMF Offer Psychological Safety Training For Women And Nonbinary Journalists (2 March)
EVENT: The Propagandists’ Playbook: How search engines are manipulated for political gain (Northeastern University, 2 March)
EVENT: ITLP Symposium: Platform and the Press (UCLA, 3-4 March)
JOB ALERT: Consultancy -- Next Generation Platforms -- DemTech (NDI)
1. Academia & Research
- ChatGPT – Friend or foe? (Oxford Internet Institute, 28 February)
- The challenge of platform capture: This is part of a series on platforms and the press published jointly by CJR and the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy. (Columbia Journalism Review, 27 February)
- The Future of Human Agency (Pew Research Center, 24 February)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Fundamental problems on social media platforms (Forbes, 28 February)
- Dutch warn against internet toll as EU looks to Big Tech to fund networks (Reuters, 27 February)
- Five years in a row: India is 2022’s biggest internet shutdowns offender (Access Now, 28 February)
- Twitter Lays Off Manager Who Slept on Office Floor After Musk Takeover (Vice, 27 February)
- Twitter on notice over porn, hate mail (The Australian, 27 February)
- In latest round of Twitter cuts, some see hints of its next CEO (Platformer, 28 February)
- Nature's Take: How Twitter's changes could affect science (Nature, 27 February)
- Twitter under fire for censoring Palestinian public figures (Al Jazeera, 28 February)