Disinfo Docket 16 December

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Highlights

1. Beyond the Great Firewall: China’s strategic Facebook presence in Sri Lanka (Sanjana Hattotuwa, 13 December)
2. “A title similar to the curious content that makes users click to see” (Conspirator Norteño, 15 December)
3. AI enters Congress: Sexually explicit deepfakes target women lawmakers (19th News, 11 December)
4. Authoritarians Are Hijacking Global Tech Cooperation to Undermine Human Rights (Freedom House, 12 December)
5. WATCH: AI, Social Media, and Lessons for Election Integrity (Meta Oversight Board, 11 December)

1. Academia & Research

1. Understanding the Information Environment: Insights from the Majority World (CEIP, 12 December)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. New Tools Move Faster Than New Rules: Bridging Science and Law for a Better Technology Ecosystem (Tech Policy Press, 13 December)
2. New emails reveal Musk’s demand to ‘unequivocally’ control OpenAI (Washington Post, 13 December)
3. TikTok removes over 7M videos in Türkiye for guideline violations (Daily Sabah, 15 December)
4. TikTok could be banned in the US after Christmas (BBC, 14 December)
5. AI crackdown: China stamps out tech misuse to preserve national literature and ideology (SCMP, 15 December)
6. Instagram’s head says social media needs more context because of AI (The Verge, 15 December)
7. Smartphones and social media 'toxic' for children under 14, psychologist Jonathan Haidt says (ABC, 14 December)
8. US needs to do more make cyber attackers pay, Trump adviser says (Reuters, 15 December)