Disinfo Docket 13 January
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Highlights
- One in five Britons aged 18-45 prefer unelected leaders to democracy, poll finds (Guardian, 12 January)
- LA fires live: Trump’s misinformation on water inexcusable, says Gavin Newsom (Times, 12 January)
- Biden calls Meta’s decision to drop factchecking ‘really shameful’ (Guardian, 11 January)
- Meta’s decision to ditch fact-checking gives state-sponsored influence operations more chance (Lowy, 13 January)
1. Academia & Research
- Misinformation on TikTok: How Documented Examined Hundreds of Videos in Different Languages (Documented, 7 January)
2. Platforms & Technology
- As tech barons dial up the spreading of lies, why is the BBC dialling down the reporting of truth? (Guardian, 12 January)
- Meta and Amazon axe diversity initiatives joining US corporate rollback (BBC, 11 January)
- Zuckerberg calls on US to defend tech companies against European ‘censorship’ (Euractiv, 11 January)
- Trump vilified tech giants. Now they’re giving him millions. (Washington Post, 11 January)
Meta
- Latin American fact-checkers brace for Meta's next moves (Wired, 11 January)
- Zuckerberg vilifies fact-checkers at cost of democracy — Philippine fact-checking coalition (Rappler, 11 January)
- Meta oversight co-chair says the company looks like it’s ‘buckling to political pressure’ by ending fact-checking program (CNN, 12 January)
- Fears for UK boomer radicalisation on Facebook after Meta drops factcheckers (Guardian, 12 January)
- Facebook changes in fact changing rules causes concern about disinformation in Pacific (ABC, 12 January)
- ‘It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now’: Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes (404, 9 January)
- Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies (Politico, 11 January)
- My day wearing Meta smart glasses, secretly filming everyone (Times, 11 January)
TikTok
- Trump has vowed to save TikTok. Lawmakers are wondering how. (Washington Post, 11 January)
X (Twitter)
- Labour minister confronted over government's alleged monitoring of Elon Musk's Twitter (Independent, 12 January)