Disinfo Docket 22 April

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Highlights

1. Elon Musk’s X a ‘factory for trolls and misinformation’, assistant treasurer says amid content removal clash (Guardian, 22 April)
2. Common Cause/NY & New York Focus File Motion with NYS Supreme Court to Make Trump Trial Transcripts Public (Read Media, 19 April)
3. LWVUS Submits Statement to Senate around Hearing on AI and Deepfakes in Elections (LWV, 16 April)
4. NCA warns tech giants like Meta are blinding themselves to child abuse (Times, 21 April)

1. Platforms & Technology

1. How to deal with influence operations in the era of generative AI (Japan Times, 21 April)
2. Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down (The Verge, 19 April)
3. What happens when we train our AI on social media? (Fast Company, 19 April)
4. Australia takes aim at social media giants over graphic content, misinformation in Sydney stabbings (Straits Times, 22 April)
5. Apple pulls WhatsApp, Threads from China app store after Beijing order (Reuters, 19 April)

Meta

1. How to use Meta’s new AI chatbot that you can’t avoid (Washington Post, 20 April)

TikTok 

1. US House passes bill that could lead to total TikTok ban (Guardian, 20 April)
2. TikTok warns US ban would 'trample free speech' (BBC, 21 April)

X (Twitter)

1. Government declares Australia 'is not going to be bullied by Elon Musk' after X refuses to remove harmful Wakeley material (ABC, 20 April)
2. Musk’s X ignores Australia’s legal threats to take down ‘distressing’ stabbing content (Sydney Morning Herald, 20 April)

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. How Telegram became the hub of Russian propaganda (Coda Story, 17 April)
2. Ukrainian sentenced to 15 years in prison for spreading Russian propaganda (The Record, 19 April)