DisinfoDocket 15 November
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Good morning! Below the paywall this morning -
* Paris 2024 calls for vigilance amid disinformation campaign
* Deepfakes could supercharge health care's misinformation problem
* Putin approves amendments restricting media coverage of presidential elections...
* Paris 2024 calls for vigilance amid disinformation campaign
* Deepfakes could supercharge health care's misinformation problem
* Putin approves amendments restricting media coverage of presidential elections...
Highlights:
- Artificial Intelligence, Disinformation, and the 2024 Indonesian Elections (The Diplomat, 14 November)
- Climate change news audiences: Analysis of news use and attitudes in eight countries (Reuters Institute, 14 November)
- Middle East 101, Week III: The Arab Revolt, the Peel Commission, and the UN Partition Plan (The Cosmopolitan Globalist, 14 November)
- What Might Russia’s Future Hold? (Inkstick Media, 14 November)
LISTEN - Why Is It Getting Harder To Fight Election Misinformation? (NPR, 13 November)
1. Academia & Research
- To Tell The Truth: Language of Deception and Language Models (arXiv, 13 November)
- The impact of misinformation on patient perceptions at a men’s health clinic: a cross-sectional study (Nature, 14 November)
🚨 💰 👀 - New @RecordedFuture research! This report examines the growing accessibility of easy-to-use bot software for enabling fraud in digital advertising. This type of fraud is now projected to reach $100 billion in losses by the end of 2023. https://t.co/c30p36uUtn
— Alexander Leslie (@aejleslie) November 14, 2023
2. Platforms & Technology
- OpenAI chief seeks new Microsoft funds to build ‘superintelligence (Financial Times, 13 November)
- Google sues to block AI ads preying on small businesses (The Wall Street Journal, 13 November)
X (formerly Twitter)
- X continues to suck at moderating hate speech, according to a new report (The Verge, 14 November)
- Elon Musk Reveals X Will Release 'Major Update' to its Algorithm to Feature Smaller Accounts (Tech Times, 14 November)
Meta
- How Meta Is Monetizing the Decline of Facebook (New York Magazine, 14 November)
TikTok
- Nepal Is Banning TikTok Over Hate Content, Officials Say (The New York Times, 13 November)
- TikTok was slammed for its pro-Palestinian hashtags. But it’s not alone. (The Washington Post, 13 November)