DisinfoDocket 16 January
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* Katie Harbath of Anchor Change launches her Election Cycle Tracker 2023-2029
* Warnings that China's propaganda campaigns are becoming increasingly sophisticated
* How to use science to guide social media regulation
Highlights:
- Anchor Change Election Cycle Tracker 2023 - 2029 (Anchor Change)
📹 @BenDoBrown, investigations director at @Cen4infoRes & @MyanmarWitness, developed a series of online investigative journalism tutorials for his YouTube channel.
— GIJN Africa (@gijnAfrica) January 15, 2023
He also offers insights on digital research, verification & OSINT. https://t.co/2nTomiHIfN pic.twitter.com/clpI6efc6b
A good partner of ours, @DisinfoEU, put together a paper illustrating how Telegram operates and how it can be exploited to conduct information manipulation operations and peddle disinformation. https://t.co/t85NCbpopI
— EUvsDisinfo (@EUvsDisinfo) January 15, 2023
1. Brazil
- Election Disinformation and the Violence in Brazil (Tech Policy Press, 14 January)
- Chinese social media app Kwai played a role in Brazil riot (Semafor, 11 January)
- The Attack on Brazil's Democracy Is Not Over (Time, 13 January)
- Brazil rioters plotted openly online, pitched huge ‘party’ (AP, 12 January)
- The Guardian view on Brazil and the Bolsonaristas: it’s not over yet (Guardian, 15 January)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Transnational digital and media tactics (CITAP, 13 January)
- Twitter and Facebook Aren’t Threatening Free Speech (Bloomberg, 14 January)
- Reviewing the Evidence on Social Media and Social Cohesion (Tech Policy Press, 12 January)
- Move slowly and fix things: A better way to combat social media posts that incite violence (The Hill, 11 January)
- Far-Right Superstars Are Failing on Rumble. Who’s Winning?: The outsider streaming site that just partnered up with Donald Trump Jr. is growing — but not in the way most people think (Rolling Stone, 15 January)
- Musk’s Twitter Intentionally Suspended Tweetbot, Third-Party Apps, Messages Show (The Information, 14 January)
- Hate speech rises on Twitter in its largest markets after Musk takeover (Washington Post, 14 January)
- Deconstructing ‘The Twitter Files’ (Tech Crunch, 13 January)
- Twitter begins to axe remaining Australian staff (Sydney Morning Herald, 11 January)
Meta
- The Dangers of Letting Donald Trump Back on Facebook (Time, 13 January)
- Leading the Fight Against Scraping-for-Hire (Meta, 12 January)
- Meta sues ‘surveillance service’ for creating fake accounts and scraping user data (The Record, 13 January)
TikTok
- What TikTok Has on You: The social media app’s data collection practices are not unlike its competitors’, but its links to China add a sinister layer to the debate. (Foreign Policy, 12 January)