Disinfo Docket 28 February
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Good morning! Below the paywall this morning -
* What Florida is — and isn't — doing to curb the biggest measles outbreak in the US
* US celebrities ‘unwittingly recruited’ for Cameo disinformation campaign against Moldovan president
* Russia's Online Campaign to Destroy Yulia Navalnaya
* What Florida is — and isn't — doing to curb the biggest measles outbreak in the US
* US celebrities ‘unwittingly recruited’ for Cameo disinformation campaign against Moldovan president
* Russia's Online Campaign to Destroy Yulia Navalnaya
Highlights
- 4 biases that leave under-represented groups out of GenAI-assisted journalism (IJNet, 26 February)
- Russia’s 2024 election interference has already begun (NBC, 26 February)
- ‘The chatbots are not ready for primetime’: Election officials, tech experts sound the alarm on the first AI election (Fortune, 27 February)
- Trusted media on the frontline (BBC, 27 February)
- Breaking Down the Immigration Figures (FactCheck.org, 27 February)
- A German Court Rules Against Russian Embassy Projections (Benjamin Wittes, Dog Shirt Daily, 27 February)
1. Academia & Research
- New analysis shows anti-vaccination conspiracy theories gain political weight due to social media (Phys.org, 26 February)
- The potential of generative AI for personalized persuasion at scale (Nature, 26 February)
- Towards Fair Graph Anomaly Detection: Problem, New Datasets, and Evaluation (arXiv, 25 February)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Here’s why a SCOTUS ruling on social media rules matters to so many people (CNN, 27 February)
- Swift Justice? Assessing Taylor's Legal Options in Wake of AI-Generated Images (Tech Policy Press, 27 February)
- Would this fool you? A.I. voice clone calls can spread election misinformation (Yahoo! News, 27 February)
- I created an AI tool to help investigative journalists find stories in audit reports. Here’s how I did it and why it matters (Reuters Institute, 16 February)
Meta
- Meta second to set up EU online election centre to fight disinformation (Euronews, 27 February)
- Meta Won't Remove All Misleading Content Ahead of EU Elections (PC Mag, 26 February)
TikTok
- TikTok is getting a new head of global trust and safety (CNN, 27 February)
X (Twitter)
- Twitter is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet (ABC, 27 February)
- Elon Musk is going to war with Google (Business Insider, 27 February)