DisinfoDocket 4 January
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Happy New Year!
This morning catch up on developments over the holdidays from -
* Major social media platforms including Twitter, TikTok, Google, YouTube and Meta
* Russian propaganda about Ukraine
* How COVID-19 disinformation has affected uptake of other vaccines
* And much more!
This morning catch up on developments over the holdidays from -
* Major social media platforms including Twitter, TikTok, Google, YouTube and Meta
* Russian propaganda about Ukraine
* How COVID-19 disinformation has affected uptake of other vaccines
* And much more!
Highlights:
- The terrible options that face social media companies (CNN, 21 December)
- Community Guidelines Enforcement Report Q3 (TikTok, 19 December)
- How YouTube supported the 2022 U.S. midterm elections (YouTube, 19 December)
- Recapping our work on the 2022 U.S. midterm elections (Google, 19 December)
- NCSC Threat Report 22nd December 2022 (NCSC, 22 December)
1. Academia & Research
- The SAGE Handbook of Digital Society (SAGE)
- OSINT Techniques: Resources for Uncovering Online Information - 10th Edition (2023) (IntelTechniques, 2023)
- Post-truth public diplomacy: a detrimental trend of cross-national communication and how open societies address it (T&F, 2 January)
- Digital identity as platform-mediated surveillance (SAGE, 3 January)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Suit accusing YouTube of tracking children is back on after appeal (Ars Technica, 29 December)
- Porn, Piracy, Fraud: What Lurks Inside Google’s Black Box Ad Empire (ProPublica, 21 December)
- Shadowbanning is real: Here’s how you end up silenced by social media (Washington Post, 27 December)
- The Ongoing Insurrection: How Trump Continues to Weaponize Social Media Post Jan. 6th (Accountable Tech, December)
- ChatGPT bot caught spreading misinformation on maritime law. Here’s how (TradeWinds, 2 January)
- Beyond ‘minimizing harms’: Algorithmic bias is still a huge problem — but where do those problems start? (Untangled, 1 January)
LISTEN: The Twitter Files and the future of the Democratic Party with Silicon Valley’s congressmen (Honestly with Bari Weiss, 16 December)
- Musk’s Frequent Twitter Polls Are at Risk of Bot Manipulation: New research shows votes can be easily purchased during Twitter polls (Bloomberg, 22 December)
- Twitter in 2022: 5 essential reads about the consequences of Elon Musk’s takeover of the microblogging platform (The Conversation, 21 December)
- What It Really Means for a Tweet to Have a Lot of Views: We looked at how great tweets stack up to great events. (Slate, 29 December)
- A French Perspective on Elon Musk’s Twitter (Lawfare, 3 January)
- Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen says if Elon Musk wants Twitter to be a public square, he should make its algorithms open source (Business Insider, 2 January)
- The influence of Twitter on journalism and politics (Niskanen Center, 27 December)
Twitter Alternatives
- Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to keep its non-profit status ‘untouchable’ (Metro, 29 December)
- How We Verified Ourselves on Mastodon — and How You Can Too (The Markup, 22 December)
- Mastodon—and the pros and cons of moving beyond Big Tech gatekeepers (Ars Technica, 2 January)
- Nostr Is The Decentralized Protocol That Might Replace Elon Musk’s Twitter (Forbes, 29 December)
- Did Elon Musk's first actions at Twitter lose the social media platform users to Mastodon and Hive Social? (Sky, 30 December)
Content Moderation
- Twitter’s Fact-Checking System Has a Major Blind Spot: Anything Divisive (Bloomberg, 19 December)
- One in four tweets about Ukraine and climate are misleading (Times, 23 December)
- Twitter Blue profiles are already a hotbed of misinformation (Fast Company, 23 December)
- Musk Has Reduced Twitter’s Ability to Spot Foreign Disinformation, a Former Data Scientist Says (Defense One, 21 December)