DisinfoDocket 29 May
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Good morning! Below the paywall this morning -
*What the world should expect from Erdogan now
* Meet the journalists defying a widening crackdown on press freedom in Guatemala
* A Day Inside Putin’s Surreal Television Empire
*What the world should expect from Erdogan now
* Meet the journalists defying a widening crackdown on press freedom in Guatemala
* A Day Inside Putin’s Surreal Television Empire
Highlights:
- The Nobel Prize Takes Aim Against Disinformation, Lies And Fakes (Forbes, 26 May)
- Twitter Withdraws From EU Disinformation Code, Commissioner Says (TIME, 27 May)
- CNN, Trump, and The Perils of ‘Anti-Woke’ Journalism (NiemanReports, 24 May)
- West caught between fear and hope as Erdoğan extends 20-year rule in Turkey (The Guardian, 28 May)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Tech layoffs ravage the teams that fight online misinformation and hate speech (CNBC, 27 May)
- Here’s What Happens When Your Lawyer Uses ChatGPT (The New York Times, 27 May)
- OpenAI’s ChatGPT app tops 500K downloads in just 6 days (Tech Crunch, 25 May)
- 'Real-world experience' informs new Pentagon cyber strategy (The Record by Recorded Media, 26 May)
- Mozilla's Mark Surman on what worries him about AI (Semafor, 26 May)
- What is ‘ethical AI’ and how can companies achieve it? (The Conversation, 25 May)
LISTEN - Ron and Elon: A Failed Launch? Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gets his White House campaign off to a glitchy start. (Americast, BBC Sounds, 26 May)
- DeSantis launches ‘anti-woke’ 2024 bid amid ridicule as Musk’s Twitter Spaces event melts down (The Independent, 26 May)
- EU’s Breton says Twitter ‘can’t hide’ after platform ditches disinformation code (Politico, 27 May)
- Twitter Will Drive Conservatives Mad — and Further Right (New York Magazine, 25 May)
Meta
- To avert more UK antitrust woes, Meta to limit how it uses ad data to boost Facebook Marketplace (Tech Crunch, 26 May)
- Facebook owner Meta lobbied Taoiseach, Tánaiste and others on EU-US data transfers (The Irish Times, 28 May)
- Mark Zuckerberg unveils ‘scrappier’ future at Meta after layoffs (The Washington Post, 25 May)
- NHS data breach: trusts shared patient details with Facebook without consent (The Guardian, 27 May)