DisinfoDocket - 13 March
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Good morning! Don't miss:
* Evidence of Russia stirring unrest in Moldova
* Nina Jankowicz speaks out about right-wing harassment
* Deepfakes and Propaganda are a growing problem in Asia
* Evidence of Russia stirring unrest in Moldova
* Nina Jankowicz speaks out about right-wing harassment
* Deepfakes and Propaganda are a growing problem in Asia
Highlights:
- IWMF and the American Press Institute Partner on Online Violence Training and Resources for Newsrooms (IWMF, March)
- Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone: Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data. (Wired, 10 March)
- Kelly Doyle Kim and this new Smithsonian museum are writing women into Wikipedia (Wikimedia Foundation, 1 March)
- Standing firm against threats to private and safe communication (Signal, 9 March)
- help me hold fox news accountable for its lies (Nina Jankowicz, 11 March)
- Helping coders do the right thing (Craig Newmark, 11 March)
LISTEN: A "Comprehensive" Episode (Moderated Content, 6 March)
1. Platforms & Technology
- Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT (NYT, 8 March)
- Get Ready to Meet the ChatGPT Clones (Wired, 10 March)
- Cyberattacks Are Just One Part of Hybrid Warfare (Washington Post, 10 March)
- Lifesaver or job killer? Why AI tools like ChatGPT are so polarizing. (Washington Post, 12 March)
- Making Deepfakes Gets Cheaper and Easier Thanks to A.I. (NYT, 12 March)
- YouTuber must pay $40K in attorneys’ fees for daft “reverse censorship” suit (ArsTechnica, 10 March)
- Elon Musk's latest project: Defending the QAnon Shaman and his role on Jan. 6 (Mashable, 11 March)
Meta
- Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network (Platformer, 9 March)
- Meta considers a new social network, as decentralized model gains steam (Washington Post, 11 March)
- Oversight Board announces a review of Meta's approach to the term "shaheed" (Oversight Board, March)
- An Update on Meta’s Civil Rights Progress (Meta, 9 March)
TikTok
- The race is on for TikTok to show it can be trusted (Telegraph, 10 March)
- Belgium bans TikTok from government phones after US, EU (ABC, 10 March)
- A former TikTok employee tells Congress the app is lying about Chinese spying (Washington Post, 10 March)