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DisinfoDocket - 27 March

DisinfoDocket curates influence operations-related academic research, news, events and job opportunities.
DisinfoDocket - 27 March
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Highlights

  1. What you need to know about the new guide on addressing hate speech through education (UNESCO, 24 March)
  2. on the normalization of political violence: i’m against it, for the record (Wiczipedia, 27 March)

1. Platforms & Technology

  1. Woolly introduces a Twitter and TweetDeck-inspired Mastodon app (TechCrunch, 24 March)
  2. Indicted Chinese exile controls Gettr social media site, ex-employees say (Washington Post, 26 March)
  3. AI can draw hands now. That’s bad news for deep-fakes. (Washington Post, 26 March)
  4. The web firm that wants to stop you getting 'cancelled' (BBC, 26 March)
  5. AI image of Pope Francis in a puffer jacket fooled the internet and experts fear there’s worse to come (iNews, 26 March)

Twitter

  1. How to Make a Public Archive of Your Tweets (Wired, 24 March)
  2. Twitter to un-verify people who don’t pay $8/month starting on April Fools’ Day (Ars Technica, 24 March)
  3. Twitter blocked 122 accounts in India at the government’s request (Rest of World, 24 March)
  4. Twitter says parts of source code posted online, seeks leaker (Washington Post, 27 March)
  5. Twitter loses bid to throw out complaint by Australian Muslim group over ‘hateful’ content (Guardian, 25 March)
  6. Elon Musk memo suggests Twitter worth less than half of what he paid for it (Guardian, 26 March)

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