DisinfoDocket 27 February
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* Meta’s latest Adversarial Threat Report
* US Treasury Department sanctions Russian disinformation operators
* Malaysia's Ministry of Communications and Digital to focus on addressing misinformation on social media
Highlights:
Interview with Christopher Wylie, data scientist and whistleblower from Cambridge Analytica, at the UNESCO Global Conference #InternetForTrust.
— UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 (@UNESCO) February 23, 2023
Learn more about the Conference: https://t.co/ZabCDeGiDQ https://t.co/9qz3AlIl7E
Hate speech online can cause harm in real life.
— United Nations (@UN) February 26, 2023
Say #NoToHate:
🔹Make your social feeds a no-hate zone.
🔹Check facts before sharing.
🔹Tackle hate by sharing messages of tolerance & equality.
🔹Support those targeted by hate speech.
More: https://t.co/uPi552BddN pic.twitter.com/x2DaBKV4ty
LISTEN: Tech Talk: Post-Election Audits, Disinformation, “Rumoring” and more — Talking Tech w/ Kate Starbird, Will Adler, Aliya Bhatia (Center for Democracy & Technology, 24 February)
- Section 230 Is a Load-Bearing Wall—Is It Coming Down? (The Markup, 25 February)
1. Platforms & Technology
LISTEN: Supreme Court considers whether internet platforms should be held liable for content (WBUR, 21 February)
- Extreme and violent anti-LGBTQ+ hate approved for publication by leading social media platforms (Global Witness, 23 February)
- Ireland: Govt in contact with social networks over online misinformation (RTE, 24 February)
- Gmail creates online fundraising “apocalypse”: Campaigns and consultants are furious after the company ended a special anti-spam filter program for political email with little notice (FWIW, 24 February)
- Twitter, Facebook: Pourquoi les abonnements payants pourraient devenir un casse-tête électoral (BFM TV, 21 February)
- The right’s new culture-war target: ‘Woke AI’ (Washington Post, 24 February)
- How women in tech are transforming social impact (Forbes, 21 February)
- Twitter, Facebook and Instagram once had a decent tool to fight misinformation. It’s gone: Blue checks have changed from a trust-building tool to a new battleground for culture wars. (MSNBC, 24 February)
- The illusion of ChatGPT (Untangled, 26 February)
- Ernie, what is censorship? China’s chatbots face additional challenges. (Washington Post, 24 February)
- Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermined encryption (BBC, 25 February)
- Biden finds breaking up Big Tech is hard to do: Google is hiring teams of former DOJ lawyers to fight antitrust lawsuits as the battle over tech firms’ power shifts to the courts (Washington Post, 26 February)