Disinfo Docket 7 April
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Highlights
- YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy (User Mag, 3 April)
- Will the future of fact-checking flourish or founder? 2025 marks a new turning point (Poynter, 2 April)
- RFK Jr. Announces Creation of CDC Sub-Agency Focused on Vaccine Injury Claims (InfoEpi, 4 April)
- HHS Under RFK Jr.: Centralization, Corruption, and Censorship (InfoEpi, 7 April)
Disinformation Campaigns: how are they structured, what are the incentives, and when are they used?
1. Academia & Research
- To fight disinformation, treat it as an insurgency (ASPI, 4 April)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Meta releases Llama 4, a new crop of flagship AI models (Tech Crunch, 5 April)
- Trump May Finally Move to Cash Out His $2 Billion Stake in Truth Social (Gizmodo, 4 April)
- Trump ‘Saves’ TikTok With Yet Another Extension for Potential Sale (Gizmodo, 4 April)
- Big Tech bet on Trump. It’s still waiting for the payoff. (Washington Post, 5 April)
- ‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams (The Guardian, 6 April)
- Fact check: How do I spot errors in AI chatbots? (DW, 6 April)
- Why Reddit is the new battleground that could swing elections (Times, 5 April)
- Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s (Verge, 3 April)