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Highlights
- How to Manage Brand Reputation in Light of AI-Fueled Misinformation (PR News Online, 5 April)
- Integrity Institute Supports UK’s Ofcom as it Develops Online Safety Codes of Practice (Integrity Institute, 24 April)
- Fake or fact: how to recognise a conspiracy theory (Guardian, 24 April)
#Disinformation threatens our individual behaviour, attitudes & overall health.
— Alliance4Europe (@Alliance4EU) April 25, 2023
The damage this can do is massive. For example, a WHO review published in September 2022 explains how unreliable health-related #misinformation caused mental & social distress among platform users.* pic.twitter.com/8YI8nqfdGI
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— Hybrid CoE (@HybridCoE) April 25, 2023
HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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The Kremlin uses proxies, including companies in the Russian private sector, to spawn fake social media accounts around the world to spread disinformation.
— Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (@FCDOGovUK) April 29, 2023
They target Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and their own citizens inside Russia.
Putin's regime depends on lies. pic.twitter.com/gCfoqWHcVB
1. Platforms & Technology
LISTEN: Elon Musk JD Program False Advertising Unit (Moderated Content, 24 April)
- AI Spam Is Already Flooding the Internet and It Has an Obvious Tell (Vice, 24 April)
- AI bots are being trained on Australian data. Should we be paid for it? (Sydney Morning Herald, 30 April)
- Fluent answers from AI search engines are more likely to be wrong (New Scientist, 27 April)
- WhatsApp adds option to use the same account on multiple phones (The Verge, 25 April)
- Twitter, YouTube, Instagram Among Sites to Face New EU Rules (Bloomberg, 25 April)
- Jack Dorsey-Backed Bluesky Attracts More Users as Twitter Falters (Bloomberg, 25 April)
- He blew the whistle on Trump’s Truth Social. Now he works at Starbucks. (Washington Post, 29 April)
BlueSky
- What to know about Bluesky, the Twitter alternative that some celebrities and journalists are joining (NBC, 28 April)
- Move over Twitter... meet Bluesky (Times, 29 April)
- Elon Musk not ‘singular solution’ for Twitter after all, says Jack Dorsey in reversal of earlier support (Fortune, 29 April)
- What to know about Bluesky, as Dril and AOC join the new Twitter alternative (Washington Post, 28 April)