Disinfo Docket 12 February

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Highlights

1. The Coming Flood of Disinformation: How Washington Gave Up on the Fight Against Falsehoods (Foreign Affairs, 7 February)
2. Call for Pitches: Misinformation in Immigrant Communities (The Markup, 9 February)
3. Commission is gathering views on draft DSA guidelines for election integrity (European Commission, 8 February)

1. Platforms & Technology

BlueSky

1. Bluesky CEO Jay Graber says she won’t ‘enshittify the network with ads’ (Wired, 9 February)

Meta

1. Meta turns its back on politics again, angering some news creators (Washington Post, 10 February)
2. First look: Meta won't recommend political content on Threads (AXIOS, 9 February)
3. Inside Meta, a debate over when the word ‘Zionist’ is hate speech (Washington Post, 9 February)
4. Meta’s review of hate speech policy sparks concern of further censorship of pro-Palestinian content (Guardian, 10 February)

TikTok

1. TikTok quietly kills hashtag view count feature: A useful transparency tool for social media researchers studying the Israel-Gaza war is now gone. (Mashable, 10 February)

2. Russia & Ukraine

1. Tucker Carlson exposed Putin’s true war motive: For Russia to own Ukraine (Washington Post, 11 February)
2. Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview gave Russian leader a platform to boost his own cause – and that of Donald Trump (The Conversation, 9 February)
3. Anti-Ukraine trolls' "Operation Matryoshka" campaign to spread more fake news (France24, 9 February)
4. Ukraine says Russia waging disinformation campaign to paint new AFU Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi as ‘Russian’ (Meduza, 11 February)
5. Disinfo Campaigns Target Key Ukraine Arm... Western Support (Barron’s, 12 February)