Disinfo Docket 11 March
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Highlights
- Military Times survey: ‘Alarming’ percentage accept conspiracies (Airforce Times, 5 March)
- Trending topics and word salad: Why bother with coherent sentences when random nonsense is just as effective at getting noticed by The Algorithm™? (Conspirator Norteño, 10 March)
- Princess of Wales: Kate image withdrawn by four news agencies amid 'manipulation' concerns (BBC, 11 March)
1. Academia & Research
- Exploring the Intersection of Information Integrity, Race, and US Elections (Tech Policy Press, 10 March)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Women in AI: Claire Leibowicz, AI and media integrity expert at PAI (TechCrunch, 9 March)
- The women in AI making a difference (TechCrunch, 10 March)
- Warning over use in UK of unregulated AI chatbots to create social care plans (Guardian, 10 March)
- The pitfalls of impression-based tech policy analysis (The Hill, 10 March)
- Silicon Valley is pricing academics out of AI research (Washington Post, 10 March)
Meta
- Instagram’s Pedophile Problem: Pedophiles are flooding the accounts of child influencers on Instagram. Who is to blame — and who can make them stop? (Slate, 10 March)
- Meta Details WhatsApp and Messenger Interoperability to Comply with EU's DMA Regulations (Hacker News, 8 March)
TikTok
- Biden says he’d sign bill that could ban TikTok if Congress passes it (Washington Post, 8 March)
- Why Countries Are Trying to Ban TikTok (NYT, 8 March)
- What’s going on with the new bill that could ban TikTok? (TechCrunch, 9 March)
- Why the political clock is ticking for TikTok (Silver Bulletin, 8 March)