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DisinfoDocket 5 April

DisinfoDocket curates influence operations-related academic research, news, events and job opportunities.
DisinfoDocket 5 April
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Highlights

  1. What the U.S. Can Learn From Europe on Addressing Disinformation (Tech Policy Press, 3 April)
  2. Stop Disinformation Training (Common Cause)

1. Academia & Research

  1. Anti-Taiwan influence operation shows shift in tactics (DFRLab, 30 March)
  2. Ukraine’s Total Democratic Resilience in the Shadow of Russia’s War (CEIP, 4 April)

2. Platforms & Technology

  1. ChatGPT banned in Italy over privacy concerns (BBC, 31 March)
  2. First ‘certified’ deepfake warns viewers not to trust everything they see online (Times, 4 April)
  3. It’s Way Too Easy to Get Google’s Bard Chatbot to Lie (Wired, 5 April)
  4. Social media platforms are the new battlefields (The Australian, 5 April)
  5. Don’t Be Fooled By AI-Generated Donald Trump Fakes (BuzzFeed, 4 April)
  6. Democracies must regulate AI agents of intimacy and influence (Financial Review, 4 April)

Twitter

  1. Why journalists can't quit Twitter: The media should be building alternatives. Instead, some are doubling down (Platformer, 5 April)

Verification  

  1. Elon Musk Makes It Harder to Shame Twitter Blue Subscribers (Rolling Stone, 3 April)
  2. White House won't pay for Twitter verification (AXIOS, 31 March)
  3. Identify Twitter Blue subscribers with these four browser extensions (Mashable, 4 April)

Content Moderation

  1. Is Twitter Censoring LGBTQ+ Content? What We Know, What We Don't (NewsWeek, 3 April)
  2. Musk's Twitter Downranks Any Post Regarding the 'Ukraine Crisis' (Gizmodo, 3 April)
  3. Joke list of Twitter ‘shadow banned’ terms spreads as fact (AP, 3 April)
  4. Germany accuses Twitter of failing to remove illegal hate speech (TechCrunch, 4 April)
  5. Twitter seems to limit visibility of tweets with words like ‘trans’, queer’, and ‘gay’ (Independent, 4 April)
  6. Twitter accused of censorship in India as it blocks Modi critics (Guardian, 5 April)
  7. Germany accuses Twitter of failing to remove illegal hate speech (TechCrunch, 4 April)

API & Research

  1. Among all of his mistakes, don’t forget Elon Musk is singlehandedly crushing a big chunk of Internet research for no good reason (Nieman, 4 April)
  2. Twitter cuts many app developers' API access, even those willing to pay $42,000 per month (Mashable, 4 April)


Meta

  1. Facebook’s top EU lobbyist wins Finnish parliament seat (Politico, 3 April)
  2. News now makes up less than 3% of what people see on Facebook (Nieman, 3 April)
  3. Poynter and Meta partner to provide Fact-Checking Fundamentals for Asia-Pacific journalists (Poynter, 4 April)
  4. Meta is profiting from Trump ads that feature his Truth Social posts (Media Matters, 30 March)
  5. Using Facebook in the EU? Here’s how to opt out of its creepy ads (TechCrunch, 4 April)
  6. Meta lays out plan to support Thai election (Bangkok Post, 5 April)

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