DisinfoDocket 17 July

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Highlights:

Biofuels made from used cooking oil sell for hundreds of dollars more per ton than types made from soy, a less green alternative.

But they are virtually impossible to tell apart with the naked eye.

We show how scammers are gaming this system. https://t.co/DUNRwhH5Y2

— Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (@OCCRP) July 16, 2023

1. Facebook banned anti-government ‘Boogaloo’ groups. They found a way to return, research says. (NBC, 14 July)
2. Dispatches from TrustCon 2023: Themes from a week of geeking out about the online trust and safety field (Anchor Change, 14 July)
3. Accelerationism, spam, and video games (Conspirator Norteño, 15 July)

1. Platforms & Technology

Scary times ahead... https://t.co/G4x2LHuQUR

— OSoMe (@OSoMe_IU) July 16, 2023

1. 'Companies must unlearn bad habits': European Parliament Vice-President Heidi Hautala (France24, 14 July)
2. Google’s New Search Tool Could Eat the Internet Alive (The Atlantic, 11 July)
   

Threads

1. Meta confirms it is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads via VPN (TechCrunch, 14 July)
2. Meta is done moderating. On Threads, users decide what they see. (Washington Post, 14 July)
3. Threads already has a hate speech problem, civil rights groups warn (Mashable, 14 July)
   

TikTok

1. Professors sue Texas over TikTok ban, signaling First Amendment fight (Washington Post, 13 July)

Twitter

1. Twitter’s Dying. Time to Drop the News Paywalls. (Washington Post, 14 July)
2. Tucker Carlson to launch new media company on Twitter, report says (Independent, 15 July)
3. Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Becoming a Sewer of Disinformation (Foreign Policy, 15 July)
4. Far-right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk’s monetization scheme (Washington Post, 14 July)
5. How the deteriorating Twitter experience affects its prized Japan market (Japan Times, 16 July)