Disinfo Docket 29 January
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Highlights
In the latest episode of Moderated Content, @alexstamos and @evelyndouek are joined by @platformer’s @CaseyNewton to talk about his decision to move his newsletter off Substack, and more.
— Stanford Law School (@StanfordLaw) January 26, 2024
🎧Listen here: https://t.co/bPOKkrGm2r
- GEC Releases Special Report: More than a Century of Antisemitism: How Successive Occupants of the Kremlin Have Used Antisemitism to Spread Disinformation and Propaganda (Department of State, 26 January)
- Germany unearths pro-Russia disinformation campaign on X (Guardian, 26 January)
1. Academia & Research
A project by @IFL_Brown and its FL-based partner @wearemasfl shows disadvantaged communities are especially vulnerable to disinformation. "Our information spaces are largely not supporting the...needs of key communities,” says Professor @stef_friedhoff.https://t.co/VJX93EEVcT pic.twitter.com/b1jmHNjVrJ
— Brown University School of Public Health (@Brown_SPH) January 25, 2024
Justin Clark has developed an open-source research tool using old and new Google Analytics codes. You can utilise it to plot out disinformation networks as it identifies what sites are held under the same user/entity. Read about and find the tool here: https://t.co/r300Lpyqts
— Bellingcat (@bellingcat) January 26, 2024
- The nine thousand dollar botnet: A network of over a thousand spammy X accounts with blue checkmarks is flooding selected posts with waves of extremely similar replies (Conspirator Norteño, 28 January)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Sam Altman says OpenAI has a plan to combat election misinformation. It’s not enough (San Francisco Chronicle, 28 January)
- Midnight Blizzard: Guidance for responders on nation-state attack (Microsoft, 25 January)
- OpenAI and other tech giants will have to warn the US government when they start new AI projects (Wired, 28 January)
Meta
- Meta tool to block nude images in teens' private messages (BBC, 27 January)
- Instagram to scan under-18s’ messages to protect against ‘inappropriate images’ (Guardian, 25 January)
X (Twitter)
- X plans to create a content moderation ‘headquarters’ in Austin / The new 100-person team will focus on CSAM content. (The Verge, 28 January)
- X appears to block Taylor Swift searches... barely / Searching for Taylor Swift on X returns nothing, unless you try literally anything else. (The Verge, 27 January)