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DisinfoDocket 14 November

DisinfoDocket curates influence operations-related academic research, news, events and job opportunities.
DisinfoDocket 14 November
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Highlights:

  1. Investigating YouTube’s Ideological “Rabbit Hole” (The Markup, 12 November)
  2. War in Ukraine: lessons learned in countering information manipulation (EEAS, 11 November)
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Below the paywall, this morning's newsletter covers:
* The ongoing global repercussions of recent layoffs at Twitter
* Upcoming elections in Nigeria
* Global & thematic influence operations-related news 

1. Platforms & Technology

  1. Facebook’s Meta staff in MENA hit in massive global layoffs (Zawya, 14 November)
  2. Investigating YouTube’s Ideological “Rabbit Hole” (The Markup, 12 November)

2. Twitter

Content Moderation & Verification

  1. Twitter users impersonate video game companies, causing mayhem (Washington Post, 11 November)
  2. Elon Musk’s first big Twitter product paused after fake accounts spread (Washington Post, 11 November)
  3. Twitter chaos after wave of blue tick impersonations (BBC, 12 November)
  4. Elon Musk sacks outsourced Twitter moderators hired to track hate and other harmful content (ABC, 14 November)
  5. Twitter Flags Mediaite Post Critical of Elon Musk as ‘Potentially Spammy’ (Mediate, 12 November)

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