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DisinfoDocket 15 February

DisinfoDocket curates influence operations-related academic research, news, events and job opportunities.
DisinfoDocket 15 February
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Highlights:

  1. Hacks, Bots and Blackmail: How Secret Cyber Mercenaries Disrupt Elections (OCCRP, 15 February)
  2. Australia foils Iran surveillance plot and vows to bring foreign interference ‘into the light’ (Guardian, 14 February)
  3. Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first (Platformer, 15 February)
  4. How to combat hate speech and gendered disinformation online? UNESCO dialogue provides some ideas. (UNESCO, 14 February)

1. Platforms & Technology

  1. Google to expand misinformation ‘prebunking’ in Europe (AP, 13 February)
  2. AI Chat Bots Are Running Amok — And We Have No Clue How to Stop Them (Rolling Stone, 14 February)
  3. Could AI swamp social media with fake accounts? (BBC, 14 February)
  4. Bing's ChatGPT-Powered Search Has a Misinformation Problem (Vice, 14 February)
  5. Big Tech Hasn’t Fixed AI’s Misinformation Problem—Yet (Time, 13 February)
  6. Combating Disinformation Wanes at Social Media Giants (NYT, 14 February)

Twitter

  1. Twitter’s API Crackdown Will Hit More Than Just Bots (Wired, 13 February)
  2. Twitter’s restrictive API may leave researchers out in the cold (TechCrunch, 14 February)
  3. A Twitter Flaw Allows You To Like An Edited Tweet Multiple Times (Forbes, 14 February)
  4. Twitter is just showing everyone all of Elon Musk’s tweets now / Is your Twitter feed suddenly all Elon Musk, too? (The Verge, 13 February)
  5. The Toll That Twitter’s Glitches Are Taking on Chinese Activists (NYT, 14 February)

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