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DisinfoDocket 25 September

DisinfoDocket curates influence operations-related academic research, news, events and job opportunities.
DisinfoDocket 25 September
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Good morning! Below the paywall this morning -
*Getting It Right about Russia-Friendly Voices in Africa: 3 Traps to Avoid
* COVID conspiracies return in force, just in time for 2024
* Egyptian presidential hopeful targeted by Predator spyware...

Highlights:

  1. Lachlan Murdoch’s succession leaves him alone at the helm of a global empire. Here’s why that’s troubling. (Media Matters for America, 21 September)
  2. Tech companies try to take AI image generators mainstream with better protections against misuse (AP News, 21 September)
  3. New threat intel effort to study ‘undermonitered’ regions (CyberScoop, 21 September)
  4. Misinformation research is buckling under GOP legal attacks (The Washington Post, 23 September)

1. Platforms & Technology

  1. Google Says Switching Away From Its Search Engine Is Easy. It’s Not. (The New York Times, 20 September)
  2. British government quietly sacks entire board of independent AI advisers (The Record by Recorded Future, 21 September)
  3. Poland opens privacy probe of ChatGPT following GDPR complaint (TechCrunch, 21 September)
  4. AI-focused tech firms locked in ‘race to the bottom’, warns MIT professor (The Guardian, 21 September)

X (formerly known as Twitter)

  1. Twitter ranks worst in climate change misinformation report (The Guardian, 21 September)
  2. How the ex-Twitter founders of Pebble plan to compete with their old employer (Quartz, 23 September)

Meta

  1. Meta to Push for Younger Users With New AI Chatbot Characters (The Wall Street Journal, 24 September)

TikTok

  1. TikTok's Rules Deter Researchers From Crunching Data on Users, Misinformation (Bloomberg, 21 September)
  2. UK dials up fight with Meta over encryption (Politico, 20 September)

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