DisinfoDocket 21 June

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Highlights:

1. Encrypted Messaging Applications and Political Messaging: How They Work and Why Understanding Them is Important for Combating Global Disinformation (Center for Media Engagement, 19 June)
2. Judge to Decide if U.S. Government Improperly Censored Social-Media Users (The Wall Street Journal, 18 June)
3. Updating the DISARM Red Framework — Goals (DISARM, 19 June)
4. Conspiracy theories aren’t on the rise – we need to stop panicking (The Conversation, 19 June)
5. Georgian journalists incorporate game-based learning amid press freedom interference (IJNet, 20 June)

1. Academia & Research

1. Online behaviour, life stressors and profit-motivated cybercrime victimisation (Australian Institute of Criminology, 20 June)
2. Encrypted Messaging Applications and Political Messaging: How They Work and Why Understanding Them is Important for Combating Global Disinformation (Center for Media Engagement, 19 June)
3. Research identifies factors that make correcting misinformation about science more successful (Phys.org, 20 June)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. The surprising truth about disinformation (NZ Herald, 19 June)
2. Government officials concerned about ‘disinformation’ from foreign states influencing security forum (The Irish Times, 21 June)
3. Exclusive: OpenAI Lobbied the E.U. to Water Down AI Regulation (TIME, 20 June)

Twitter

1. After Elon Musk, Joe Rogan vaccine Twitter brawl, scientists say ‘vile rhetoric & misinformation’ is forcing them off the platform (Fortune, 20 June)
2. Twitter claims advertisers are returning — but the advertisers being publicly cited either never left or still haven’t come back (Media Matters for America, 20 June)
3. Twitter will respect EU laws to combat disinformation, Elon Musk says (Euronews, 20 June)

Meta

"Meta... has been making repeated concessions to Vietnam’s authoritarian government, routinely censoring dissent and allowing those seen as threats by the government to be forced off the platform..."@rebtanhs @washingtonpost https://t.co/GShZZ8TyJm

— Real Facebook Oversight Board (@FBoversight) June 20, 2023

1. The slow decline of Meta’s Trusted Partner program (Rest of World, 15 June)
2. Health experts worry as Meta rolls back some COVID misinformation policies (ABC, 19 June)