DisinfoDocket 25 October

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Highlights:

1. FIMI targeting LGBTIQ+ people: Well-informed analysis to protect human rights and diversity (The Diplomatic Service of the European Union, 23 October)
2. 41 States sue Meta, claiming Instagram, Facebook are addictive, harm kids (The Washington Post, 24 October)
3. The people’s AI will strengthen, not scupper, democracy (ASPI, 24 October)
4. Israel-Gaza conflict: How to fact check misleading videos (Full Fact, 17 October)

LISTEN - Thousands of FakeReporter volunteers sort through disinformation on social media (NPR, 23 October)

1. Academia & Research

1. Negative and Misleading Posts Driving Critical Discussions on X (InfoEpi Lab, 24 October)
2. Prompt-Specific Poisoning Attacks on Text-to-Image Generative Models (ArXiv, 20 October)
3. The Importance of the Internet Governance Forum (Council on Foreign Relations, 23 October)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. LinkedIn issues warning to site shaming pro-Palestinian sentiment (The New York Times, 22 October)
2. AI risk must be treated as seriously as climate crisis, says Google DeepMind chief (The Guardian, 24 October)

X (formerly known as Twitter)

1. How Elon Musk ditched Twitter's safeguards and primed X to spread misinformation (Politifact, 23 October)

Meta

1. Meta's Instagram linked to depression, anxiety, insomnia in kids - US states' lawsuit (Reuters, 24 October)

STATEMENT: Meta sued by over three-quarters of the United States for “profoundly” altering “the psychological and social realities” of young Americans.https://t.co/wggui018Bo

— Real Facebook Oversight Board (@FBoversight) October 24, 2023

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. Russian opposition politician Dmitry Gudkov charged with spreading ‘disinformation’ for video about civilian deaths in Ukraine (Meduza, 23 October)

🇺🇦 “If Ukraine implements the right electoral reforms now, it can emerge from this war with its electoral democracy strengthened,” write Peter Erben and Gio Kobakhidze in #UkraineAlert.

“The sooner electoral reforms are initiated, the better.”https://t.co/sBPxtfdTAc

— Atlantic Council (@AtlanticCouncil) October 23, 2023