DisinfoDocket 16 November
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* Implications of changes at Meta and Twitter on users, content moderation and information integrity
* US Midterms and Trump's confirmation that he will run for president in 2024
* Climate change denial and CoP27
*and much more!
Highlights:
Good morning everyone!
— Carl Miller (@carljackmiller) November 14, 2022
Today we're launching, well, not really a new counter-disinfo capability, because we've been building and using it for five years. But a much greater effort to talk about how it works, and what we've learned doing this strange new kind of research.
🧵 pic.twitter.com/54y2BhWhUK
LISTEN: Moderated Content: Elections and Elon, again (Moderated Content, 15 November)
LISTEN: Lea Ronzaud from Graphika: Internet Mapping & State Operations Recognition (The Pivot, 15 November)
Misinformation often comes from the top, and live coverage of speeches etc is a key vector.
— Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (is offline) (@rasmus_kleis) November 16, 2022
3 out of these 7 broadacasters seem to have learned something from the last 6+ years of being played like a fiddle.
Disappointing from BBC, CNN, and Sky that it is business as usual. https://t.co/ljcSGLnTkY
1. Academia & Research
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— Kevin Slaten (@KevinSlaten) November 14, 2022
After many months of data collection, today we have released the China Dissent Monitor (CDM), a @freedomhouse project tracking protest & other dissent in the PRC.
We've recorded 735 events since June 2022: https://t.co/VtUavwYGvc
Thread on early findings⤵️ pic.twitter.com/fLYebIe7bx
- State-sponsored economic cyberespionage and the risk to nations’ prosperity: Briefing note to G20 Leaders’ Summit (ASPI, 15 November)
- Seizing the memes of advantage in the Ukraine war and beyond (ASPI, 15 November)
- ISP Launches Majority World Initiative to Support Social Media Scholarship (Yale Law School, 7 November)
- Platform Recommendations to Empower Influencers Driving Civic Engagement (Tech Policy Press, 14 November)
- The Impact of the U.S. Midterm Elections on Tech Policy (Tech Policy Press, 13 November)
- How a former al-Qaeda affiliate became an existential threat and a wake-up call for the Syrian opposition (Atlantic Council, 14 November)
2. Platforms & Technology
- To win the internet, the Pentagon's info ops need more humanity and a dash of absurdity (CyberScoop, 14 November)
- Microsoft’s Xbox Publishes First Transparency Report on Content Moderation (Bloomberg, 14 November)
- TikTok Builds Itself Into an Ads Juggernaut (NYT, 14 November)
- FBI Director warns of potential Chinese gov’t exploitation of TikTok (The Record, 15 November)
- The End of Silicon Valley’s 20-Year Boom (Slate, 15 November)