Disinfo Docket 31 January

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Highlights

Join the conversation on digital safety! The new Coalition Against Online Violence (@TheCAOV) Mapping Report is out, providing solutions for online abuse faced by women journalists and building safer online spaces.
Read the report: https://t.co/eb9u8yhmsM

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1. OpenAI's ChatGPT breaches privacy rules, says Italian watchdog (Reuters, 30 January)
2. 3 predictions for media in 2024 (IJNet, 30 January)
3. There’s So Much Data Even Spies Are Struggling to Find Secrets (Bloomberg, 29 January)
4. Pakistan: Authorities summon 47 journalists (IFJ, 30 January)
5. From India to Russia, no country for bad news (Coda Story, 26 January)

1. Academia & Research

1. Here’s how right-wing media are attacking America’s education system (Media Matters for America, 29 January)
2. How to depolarize your students (Nature, 29 January)
3. Honesty Project Reveals New Truths About Misinformation (Psychology Today, 30 January)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. AI Companies Will Be Required to Report Safety Tests to U.S. Government (TIME, 29 January)
2. Google Update Reveals AI Will Read All Your Private Messages (Forbes, 28 January)
3. AI will increase global ransomware threat, UK cyber security chiefs warn (The Independent, 29 January)
4. "Terrifying": Expert outlines "endless" ways AI could "further fracture" elections and our democracy (Salon, 29 January)

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

Meta

1. Facebook users in the UK have more privacy protections than in the U.S. Here's why. (Mashable, 29 January)