DisinfoDocket 12 July

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Highlights:

1. Abortion Activists Are Targets of Violent, Gendered Threats After Overturn of Roe (Teen Vogue, 10 July)
2. Why Can't Anyone Post Lawfare Content to Twitter? (Benjamin Wittes, Dog Shirt Daily, 11 July)
3. Privacy activists slam EU-US pact on data sharing (BBC, 11 July)
4. What can the US learn from Taiwan’s fight against disinformation? (Columbia Journalism Review, 10 July)
5. We shouldn’t turn disinformation into a constitutional right (Brookings, 11 July)
6. Chinese social media messaging downplays significance of Wagner mutiny (DFR Lab, 10 July)

1. Academia & Research

1. Conscientiousness does not moderate the association between political ideology and susceptibility to fake news sharing (PsyArXiv Preprints, 30 June)
2. Scaling Trust on the Web (Atlantic Council, 21 June)
3. How Gen Z is Changing Anti-Abortion Extremism Through ‘Queering’ (Global Network on Extremism and Technology, 30th June)
4. China’s AI Regulations and How They Get Made (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 10 July)
5. Behind the war in Ukraine is a shady war of cyber attackers reveals Radware research (iTWire, 9 July)
6. China’s Cognitive AI Research - Emulating Human Cognition on the Way to General Purpose AI (CSET, July 2023)

CME researcher @ChristianStaal sat down with @TPRNews to talk about our study where we found that people were more likely to rate a claim as true if it supports their political party.

Read the full interview here: https://t.co/T3w274MgB8

— Center for Media Engagement (@EngagingNews) July 11, 2023

2. Platforms & Technology

LISTEN - The Internet Is at the Bottom of the Sea (Inkstick Media, 10 July)

1. Google warns of Gmail tech support impersonation scam (7News, 10 July)
2. Causal AI: rewriting the rules of artificial intelligence (Cyber News, 10 July)
3. How the generative A.I. boom could forever change online advertising (CNBC, 8 July)
4. Amazon tells court it shouldn't have to police its platforms for hate speech and disinformation (Business Insider, 11 July)
5. How AI will turbocharge misinformation — and what we can do about it (Axios, 10 July)
6. The workers at the frontlines of the AI revolution (Rest of World, 11 July)

Twitter

1. Twitter Blue Accounts Are Spreading Misinformation About The War In Ukraine (Forbes, 10 July)
2. Twitter faces legal challenge after failing to remove reported hate tweets (The Guardian, 10 July)
3. How Musk’s Twitter is Jeopardizing War Crimes Investigations (Tech Policy Press, 11 July)

This is a fake quote falsely atrributed to Mel Gibson, who has denied ever saying anything of the sort.

The quote has been repeatedly debunked, and here we are again with a tweet by a Twitter Blue subscriber with 11,000 retweets, 45,000 likes and 2.2 million views. pic.twitter.com/riGcr1YQok

— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) July 11, 2023