DisinfoDocket - 22 February
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Highlights:
One way to deal with pro-Kremlin 🐮💩 is to make a BINGO out of it. Can you get 4 in a row today? pic.twitter.com/roW9IzxMwK
— EUvsDisinfo (@EUvsDisinfo) February 21, 2023
- Your Guide to the Supreme Court Arguments in Gonzalez v Google (Anchor Change, 21 February)
- Disinformation Campaigns Against Women Are a National Security Threat, New Study Finds (TIME, 21 February)
- Give digital IDs to all, urge Tony Blair and William Hague: One-time rivals unite to demand radical tech revolution in the British state (Time, 22 February)
- Countering China’s coercive diplomacy (ASPI, 22 February)
Event alerts
🎮Register now for our latest @ExtremismGaming Online Workshop - 'Misogyny, Gaming, and Radicalisation: Global Expressions and Analyses' with @AshKingdon @galen_englund @DrKowert @aamattheis and @J_White692.
— GNET (@GNET_research) February 21, 2023
🗓️Tuesday 7th March at 3pm GMT/10am ESThttps://t.co/lt44yi1AwW
- Report launch: Kremlin Information Operations Before and After Ukraine Invasion (DFRLab, 22 February)
Job Alerts
- Full- Time Limited Term: Digital Community Producer, Forum (KQED)
- Tenure-track Assistant Professor (Clemson University: College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences: School of Computing) (Deadline 3 March)
- Head of Public Relations and Outreach (part-time) (Stiftung Neue Verantwortung)
Hey @HarvardLaw students:
— Florian Martin-Bariteau ᴀᴋᴀ FMB (@f_mb) February 22, 2023
I am hiring a #RA to work with me at @BKCHarvard on the protection of whistleblowers and security researchers, notably to support transparency and accountability in AI systems and other socio-technical systems!https://t.co/6CVM9NynNw
1. Academia & Research
- Should you buy a used social media account from a website like accs-market.com?: The answer to this eternal question is always "no" (Conspirator Norteño, 22 February)
- Hybrid CoE Trend Report 9: Eastern Partnership countries in flux: From identity politics to militarization of foreign relations (Hybrid CoE, 21 February)
- The “Need for Chaos” and Motivations to Share Hostile Political Rumors (Cambridge University Press, 17 February)
2. Platforms & Technology
Could there be a more inclusive, community-based internet?
— UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 (@UNESCO) February 22, 2023
Find out in the @UNESCOCourier's interview with American author Joanne McNeil (@jomc).https://t.co/vM5PmFfe75 pic.twitter.com/z5dIrK3z2e
- Social media ‘targets teens with booze ads’ (The Australian, 20 February)
- Trump's Truth Social Dilemma (Newsweek, 20 February)
- Influencer Is a Real Job. It's Time to Act Like It (Wired, 15 February)
- How Women In Tech Are Transforming Social Impact (Forbes, 21 February)
- When your ‘friends’ spy on you: the Orwellian social media surveillance to militaries (Forbidden Stories, 20 February)
- For the tech giants, security is increasingly a paid feature (Nieman Lab, 21 February)
Tech Regulation
- India, US, Saudi Arabia 'block' tax on tech giants in global talks, says France (India Times, 20 February)
- Supreme Court to Hear Case That Targets a Legal Shield of Tech Giants: The justices are set to hear a case challenging Section 230, a law that protects Google, Facebook and others from lawsuits over what their users post online. (NYT, 20 February)
- Splitting Up Social Media May Be Its Only Hope (Washington Post, 21 February)
- Supreme Court seems cautious on Google case that could reshape internet (Washington Post, 21 February)