Disinfo Docket 11 September

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Highlights

1. We Don’t Have to Let Big Tech Money Dominate Elections (Brennan Center, 9 September)
2. What You Need to Know About Grok AI and Your Privacy (WIRED, 9 September)
3. How Indian podcasters are amplifying voices left behind by national media (IJNet, 9 September)

WATCH - No, Kamala Harris did not pledge to shut down X if elected President (France24, 9 September)

1. Academia & Research

New pre-print! Want to find ways to heal partisan divisions? Make conversations more self-disclosing. Thread below 👇https://t.co/S8NiDJ6uDI pic.twitter.com/PlpupaWKTb

— Emily Kubin (@emily_kubin) September 9, 2024

1. Place identity: a generative AI’s perspective (Nature, 7 September)

2. Platforms & Technology

The arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov by French authorities is part of a broader shift away from the free speech absolutism long championed by Big Tech. @washingtonpost’s @WillOremus explains.https://t.co/meQolvWWRv

— Today, Explained (@today_explained) September 9, 2024

A post on Facebook claims Elon Musk created an “electricity saving device”.

But we can find no evidence he has ever been involved in creating the product being promoted.https://t.co/hhJyEJJe0n

— Full Fact (@FullFact) September 9, 2024

1. “Are You Saying No to Elon Musk?”: Scenes from the Slash-and-Burn Buyout of Twitter (Vanity Fair, 9 September)
2. Social media is like sex – young people need education, not unrealistic bans (The Conversation, 10 September)
3. Stop Drinking from the Toilet! The faucet isn’t much better: digital sewage polluting our information pipes is making us sick (Coda Story, 10 September)
4. EU court rules Google must pay €2.4bn fine (BBC, 10 September)
5. 42 state attorneys general demand a Surgeon General warning label for social media apps (CNN, 10 September)

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. Rumble repeatedly promoted as “editor picks” content from Tenet Media, a channel allegedly funded by the Russian government (Media Matters, 9 September)
2. How one man cast four ballots in the St. Petersburg elections as part of the Kremlin’s carousel voting scheme (Meduza, 10 September)