DisinfoDocket 12 December
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* Russian propaganda efforts around the world
* France's RSF’s requests ban on Russian propaganda broadcasts by Eutelsat
* And much more!
Highlights:
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— Esteban Ponce de León (@estebanpdl) December 7, 2022
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— Report for America (@Report4America) December 9, 2022
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- Inside China’s Surveillance Panopticon (The Markup, 10 December)
- 9 of the most powerful people in Seattle in 2022, featuring Kate Starbird, professor at Washington University (AXIOS, 10 December)
- ‘Information and Elections in the Digital Era’: Knight Center and UNESCO launch self-directed online course in four languages (Knight Center, 9 December)
WATCH: CDT's 2022 Future of Speech Online: The Supreme Court’s Pivotal Term (Day 1) (Center for Democracy & Technology, 7 December)
1. Platforms & Technology
- Can Humans Find Common Ground? Sure. Just Start With Sea Slugs.: As civil discourse online and off increasingly proves elusive, a website devoted to identifying plants and animals may be teaching humans how to get along. (NYT, 9 December)
- The New Chat Bots Could Change the World. Can You Trust Them? (NYT, 10 December)
- ChatGPT can tell jokes, even write articles. But only humans can detect its fluent bullshit (Guardian, 11 December)
- LISTEN: Kate Klonick: Can Social Media Not Be So Anti-Social? (Clear & Vivid, 6 December)
Here’s an update on our recent efforts to reduce the reach of hateful speech on Twitter. 🧵
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) December 10, 2022
NEW: Elon Musk is threatening to sue Twitter employees who leak confidential information to the press. He's asking staffers to sign a pledge indicating they've understood. Here's the email:
— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) December 10, 2022
- Elon Musk Steps Up Attacks on Twitter’s Former Safety Head (Bloomberg, 11 December)
- The illusion of Twitter as a public space (CITAP, 9 December)
- Long-form tweets might be coming soon, Musk hints (Arab News, 10 December)
- Critics Say Musk Has Revealed Himself as a Conservative. It’s Not So Simple. (NYT, 10 December)
- Elton John quits Twitter blaming change in misinformation policy (BBC, 10 December)
- What if failure is the plan? Some thoughts on Twitter's trajectory. (Zephoria, 5 December)
- Twitter launches Community Notes feature that lets people add context to tweets (Independent, 12 December)
- Elon Musk’s Twitter Files Are Bait: He doesn’t actually want transparency on the social-media platform. (The Atlantic, 9 December)
- The ‘Twitter Files’ Is What It Claims to Expose (Intelligencer, 10 December)
- Why Is Twitter Shutting Down Chinese Activists’ Accounts? (Rolling Stone, 9 December)