Disinfo Docket 24 February

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Highlights

1. These politically enthusiastic supplement fans do not exist (Conspirator Norteño, 22 February)
2. Signals of Trouble: Multiple Russia-Aligned Threat Actors Actively Targeting Signal Messenger (Google Cloud, 19 February)
3. Meta, X approved ads containing violent anti-Muslim, antisemitic hate speech ahead of German election, study finds (Tech Crunch, 21 February)
4. OpenAI finds new Chinese influence campaigns using its tools (Axios, 21 February)
5. Disrupting malicious uses of AI (Open AI, 21 February)

1. Platforms & Technology

1. YouTube was born from a failed dating site – 20 years on, the world’s biggest video platform faces new challenges (The Conversation, 21 February)
2. Elon Musk to “fix” Community Notes after they contradict Trump (Ars Technica, 21 February)
3. How 12 Americans See Life After Watching a Lot of TikTok (NYT, 24 February)
4. Does TikTok Amplify Republican Content? (Doomscrolling Babel, 16 February)
5. How Americans view Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg (Pew Research Institute, 19 February)

AI

1. OpenAI Bans Accounts Misusing ChatGPT for Surveillance and Influence Campaigns (Hacker News, 22 February)
2. Turkey’s translators are training the AI tools that will replace them (Rest of World, 20 February)
3. Court filings show Meta staffers discussed using copyrighted content for AI training (Tech Crunch, 21 February)
4. Grok blocked results saying Musk and Trump ‘spread misinformation’ (The Verge, 23 February)
5. Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value (Futurism, 22 February)
6. Is open-access AI the great safety equalizer for African countries? (Brookings, 21 February)