Disinfo Docket 15 April

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Highlights

1. The Importance of Election Coalitions Around the World (Anchor Change, 10 April)
2. These content creators do not exist: In which Facebook's recommendation algorithm serves as the gateway to a network of inauthentic accounts (Conspirator Norteño, 13 April)

1. Platforms & Technology

1. Naval Ravikant’s Airchat is a social app built around talk, not text (TechCrunch, 13 April) 
2. Google who? Gen Z is searching on TikTok, YouTube instead (Axios, 13 April)
3. UK could ban under-16s from social media in face-off with Meta (Times, 14 April)
4. AI companies are running out of high-quality data. Here's what happens next. (Untangled, 14 April)
5. Axios Sees A.I. Coming, and Shifts Its Strategy (NYT, 11 April)

BlueSky

Bluesky (@bsky.app)

By the way... we lifted our “no heads of state” policy. 🤐

Bluesky Social

Meta

1. New Tools to Help Protect Against Sextortion and Intimate Image Abuse (Meta, 11 April)
2. Charges against Meta sparked by Andrew Forrest over false cryptocurrency ads on Facebook discontinued (ABC, 12 April)
3. Andrew Forrest accuses Facebook of ‘blatantly refusing’ to take action against scam ads (Guardian, 12 April)
4. When Facebook blocks news, studies show the political risks that follow (Reuters, 14 April)

TikTok 

1. Use TikTok to combat misinformation, MPs tell government (Guardian, 12 April)

X (Twitter)

1. Uh-oh, X's Grok AI can now 'understand' images (Mashable, 13 April)
2. X/Twitter to make people show their blue ticks – after forcing them onto users (Independent, 13 April)
3. Communicating With Elon Musk’s X Is Like Traversing a Scorched Hellscape (Mother Jones, 12 April)
4. Elon Musk is wrong about illegal voting (Tangle, 12 April)