Disinfo Docket 15 January
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Highlights
- Tools and tips round up: Searching YouTube transcripts, monitoring webpages, and more (Digital Investigations, 9 January)
1. Academia & Research
- None of these people exist, but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway (Conspirator Norteño, 13 January)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Substack’s woes deepen as tech blog leaves over Nazi content (Washington Post, 11 January)
- Letter to California Attorney General on OpenAI’s Nonprofit Status (Public Citizen, 9 January)
- The rising threat to democracy of AI-powered disinformation (Manila Times, 15 January)
- OpenAI quietly deletes ban on using ChatGPT for 'military and warfare' (Intercept, 12 January)
Meta
- Meta offers Canadian Facebook users $51M in class-action lawsuit (Global News, 12 January)
X (Twitter)
- Australia slams Twitter (now X) for 80% cut in trust and safety engineers (ZDNet, 12 January)
- X (Twitter) political advertising slowly makes a comeback (FWIW, 12 January)
- Ofcom ‘watching’ as EU investigates Twitter/X for illegal content (Times, 15 January)