Disinfo Docket 19 February

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Highlights

1. The Hidden Injustice of Cyber Attacks (Wired, 12 February)
2. Seeing isn't always believing: video edition: The era of text-to-video generative AI is upon us, bringing with it new twists on old problems (Conspirator Norteño, 17 February)
3. Meeting the moment: combating AI deepfakes in elections through today’s new tech accord (Microsoft, 16 February)
4. Working together to address AI risks and opportunities at MSC (Google, 16 February)

1. Platforms & Technology

1. Tech platforms are suffocating opposition media (Rest of World, 15 February)
2. Can anything be done to prevent a deepfake misinformation crisis? (Fast Company, 18 February)
3. Big Tech tells politicians: We’ll control the deepfakes (Politico, 16 February)
4. Big Tech companies sign accord to combat AI-generated election disinformation (Euro News, 17 February)
5. Deepfakes pose serious threat to democracy, says Google chief (Times, 19 February)
6. OpenAI shows off lifelike videos generated by Sora, its new AI tool (Washington Post, 15 February)

Meta

1. When does something become political?: The debate about how Meta handles political content flares up again (Anchor Change, 14 February)
2. No news is bad news for all of us, Meta (Guardian, 17 February)

TikTok 

1. They wanted careers in tech. They’re stuck as TikTok moderators (Rest of World, 15 February)
2. Why Biden had to join TikTok: Staying off the platform in 2024 wasn’t really an option. Here’s why they joined and why it matters. (FWIW, 16 February)

X (Twitter)

1. The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests (Mashable, 16 February)