DisinfoDocket - 15 March
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* Banning state devices from using TikTok means researchers at state institutions can't study TikTok
* China’s internet watchdog ramps up campaign against social media misinformation
* How social media policies in newsrooms fail to protect journalists
Highlights
- The Kremlin’s Never-Ending Attempt to Spread Disinformation about Biological Weapons (US Department of State, 14 March)
- Cyber Incident Reporting Framework: Global Edition (Cyber Threat Alliance, Institute for Security and Technology)
- The third successive FREE Trust in News global webcast is back. Join us live in London and Delhi on Thursday March 30 2023. (Trust in News, 30 March)
The #MercuryProject is proud to announce a new research team! 🧵
— SSRC (@ssrc_org) March 14, 2023
“Unfollowing low-quality sources”: @BrendanNyhan (@dartmouth), Filippo Menczer @OSoMe_IU (@IUBloomington), @glcdev (@UofMaryland), @RoeeLevyZ (@TelAvivUni), and @BetsiGrabe (@IUBloomington) https://t.co/5c4ct6GKKr
1. Academia & Research
- Political polarization of news media and influencers on Twitter in the 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections (Nature, 13 March)
- The New American Foreign Policy of Technology (GMF, 13 March)
- How the Kremlin misrepresented a video to claim Georgian protesters seek war with Russia (DFRLab, 14 March)
2. Platforms & Technology
BKC Affiliates @SchneierBlog and @NathanSanders_ warn of generative AI’s threat to the democratic process in the @BostonGlobe.https://t.co/hTooISyDpB
— Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (@BKCHarvard) March 14, 2023
- How Social Media Platforms Can Engage On Fighting Disinformation (Wilson Center, 14 March)
- TikTok and Meta’s Moderators Form a United Front in Germany (Wired, 13 March)
- Why Are We Letting the AI Crisis Just Happen?: Bad actors could seize on large language models to engineer falsehoods at unprecedented scale. (The Atlantic, 13 March)
- Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams (Platformer, 13 March)
- Meta-Analysis: Social Media Does Little to Inform Citizens (Tech Policy Press, 7 March)
- Twitter’s Working on a New Option to Show You Why You’re Seeing Each Tweet in Your Feed (Social Media Today, 13 March)
Meta
- Meta is laying off 10,000 more employees (Mashable, 14 March)
- Meta to cut another 10,000 jobs and cancel ‘low priority projects’ (TechCrunch, 14 March)
- The Facebook MAGA mills are open for business: Massive right-wing Facebook networks are growing rapidly ahead of 2024 (FWIW, 10 March)