Disinfo Docket 22 January

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* President Trump’s Attempt to “Save” TikTok is a Power-Grab that Subverts Free Speech
* Crossbenchers urge Labor to act immediately on deepfakes and misinformation before next election
* How the far right weaponizes victimhood...
Highlights
We've got it! 📗 "International Disinformation: A Handbook for Analysis and Response" is now available in open access 👉https://t.co/xyDgjCKlBn
— Filip Bryjka (@FilipBryjka) January 21, 2025
Thank you @RKupiecki & @TomaszChlon for a cooperation 💪
The publication was funded by @HorizonEU grant - #SAUFEX project 🇪🇺👨💻 pic.twitter.com/X5F6dnrCuW
- US Democracy: Confronting A New Information Age (GMFUS, 16 January)
- Did He Actually Do That? (The Atlantic, 20 January)
- Free Speech Was Never the Goal of Tech Billionaires. Power Was. (Tech Policy Press, 22 January)
- How misinformation about the Southport murders sparked violent race riots across the country (The Independent, 21 January)
- Children's laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce on how getting kids to read can help fight misinformation (Big Issue, 22 January)
- Disinformation experts blast Trump’s executive order on government censorship as ‘direct assault on reality’ (CNN, 22 January)
FactChecking Trump’s Inaugural Address: China and the Panama Canal#InaugurationDay #DonaldTrump #factcheck #PanamaCanal pic.twitter.com/eKNB9CTseg
— FactCheck.org (@factcheckdotorg) January 21, 2025
1. Academia & Research
- Annual Payment Fraud Intelligence Report: 2024 (Recorded Future, 21 January)
- Oxford researchers call for framework to study AI's impact on youth mental health (News Medical, 21 January)
2. Platforms & Technology
- A closer look at Americans’ experiences with news on TikTok (Pew Research Centre, 17 January)
- Instagram hides search results for 'Democrats' (BBC, 21 January)
- E-Commerce and Extremism: Dropshipping and the Continued Sale of White Supremacist Merchandise on Amazon (GNET, 22 January)
- Donald Trump’s Crypto Blind Spot (Coda Story, 22 January)
- Trump Issues Executive Order to Buy Time on TikTok Ban (Tech Policy Press, 21 January)