Disinfo Docket 10 March

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1. SXSW

1. Wikihaus: Wikicurious? Wikiexperienced? Come immerse yourself in things Wikipedia and Wikimedia during SXSW 2025 at our Open House.
2. The Fight for Freedom of Speech: From Lawsuits to Spyware (12 March)
3. Tackling Advertising in the Misinformation Era (11 March)
4. Myth Busting in the Age of Misinformation: Tackling Chronic Disease (11 March)
5. The Lying Epidemic in Politics & How We Might Cure It (10 March)
6. Open Source AI Safety: A Chat with Meta's Ella Irwin (10 March)
7. Science or Science Fiction? The Truths and Tall Tales of Longevity Science (10 March)
8. Tackling Misinformation on Its Own Turf: Social Media (10 March)
9. Deepfake Dilemma: Balancing Innovation and Policy (10 March)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. The curious case of Tigress Publishing: Sponsored listings on Amazon are going just great (Conspirator Norteño, 8 March)
2. Meta, Google accused of ‘censorship’ for blocking women’s health ads but allowing erectile dysfunction campaigns (Independent, 8 March)
3. Zuckerberg’s Meta considered sharing user data with China, whistleblower alleges (Washington Post, 9 March)
4. ChatGPT's Deep Research as an image contextualization tool: Possibilities and frustrations (The End(s) of Argument, 9 March)
5. The botnet is mysterious and important (Memetic Warfare, 10 March)
6. Instagram May Launch Separate Reels App To Take On TikTok (Forbes, 10 March)
7. Trump says US talking to four different groups on sale of TikTok (Reuters, 10 March)
   

3. Middle East & Africa

1. Trump's open door to white South Africans buys into conspiracy theory (Axios, 8 March)
2. Meta blocks Gazan influencer Saleh Al Jafarawi's Instagram account (JPost, 9 March)
3. New DDoS Botnet Discovered: Over 30,000 Hacked Devices, Majority of Observed Activity Traced to Iran (GreyNoise, 28 February)