DisinfoDocket 31 October

DisinfoDocket curates influence operations-related academic research, news, events and job opportunities.

Highlights:

1. QAnon celebrates Musk takeover, pseudoscience at the Bundestag, and Chevron greenwashing (Coda Story Newsletter, 28 October)
2. Twitter and AFP announce collaboration to elevate credible information in Spanish (AFP, 27 October)
3. In disasters, people are abandoning official info for social media. Here’s how to know what to trust (The Conversation, 30 October)

WATCH: Russian disinformation is coming (EUvsDisinfo, 29 October)

LISTEN: Musk Flips the Bird (Moderated Content)

LISTEN: How Do You Know What's True?: The modern election (Evergreen, 27 October)

1. Platforms & Technology

Twitter

1. Twitter takeover: fears raised over disinformation and hate speech (Guardian, 28 October)
2. Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover has already emboldened the trolls (Engadget, 28 October)
3. Racist tweets quickly surface after Musk closes Twitter deal (Washington Post, 28 October)
4. Elon Musk declares Twitter ‘moderation council’ – as some push the platform’s limits (Guardian, 29 October)
5. Welcome to hell, Elon. You break it, you buy it. (The Verge, 28 October)
6. Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover should be ‘wake-up call’ for users: experts (Toronto Star, 28 October)
7. Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk tweets conspiracy theory about violent Pelosi attack (South China Morning Post, 30 October)
8. Twitter privacy settings to change now (Washington Post, 28 October)
9. ‘A threat to democracy and security’: 12 NGOs demand EU review of Twitter take-over (Defend Democracy, 31 October)
10. Elon Musk’s First Move Is To Fire The Person Most Responsible For Twitter’s Strong Free Speech Stance (TechDirt, 28 October)
11. Twitter could split into strands allowing users to stage rows, Elon Musk says (Guardian, 29 October)