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Disinfo Docket 24 June

DisinfoDocket curates influence operations-related academic research, news, events and job opportunities.
Disinfo Docket 24 June
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Highlights

1. Platforms & Technology

  1. US government bans sales of Kaspersky antivirus software (Tech Monitor, 21 June)
  2. Ted Cruz Wants Platforms To Be Liable for Deepfakes (404, 20 June)
  3. Reddit and the Robots: A.I. is learning about us from our meme-iest hangout. I don’t feel great about it. (Slate, 21 June)
  4. Testing new ways to offer viewers more context and information on videos (YouTube, 17 June)
  5. What does ‘open source AI’ mean, anyway? (Tech Crunch, 22 June)

Meta

  1. Releasing New AI Research Models to Accelerate Innovation at Scale (Meta, 18 June)
  2. How Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Failed Children on Safety, States Say (NYT, 22 June)

TikTok 

  1. The schoolchildren being lured by rebels on TikTok (BBC, 22 June)
  2. News Corp and TikTok held talks over video content deal (Capital Brief, 23 June)

X (Twitter)

  1. X still has a Verified bot problem — this time they came for TechCrunch writers (Tech Crunch, 22 June)
  2. Elon Musk's X will soon make live streaming a premium feature (Mashable, 22 June)

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