DisinfoDocket 29 November

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Highlights:

1. When deepfakes go nuclear (Coda Story, 28 November)
2. How A Simple Online Game Can Help Bridge Political Divides (Center for Media Engagement, 16 November)
3. In a world of misinformation, uncertainty, 'authentic' earns 2023 word of the year by Merriam-Webster (ABC, 28 November)
4. The deep winter freeze that wasn’t (EUvsDisinfo, 28 November)
5. Navigating The Disinformation Landscape: Cultivating Cognitive Resilience (Forbes, 28 November)

The next piece in our gender series with @GpsMonash by @JaydenHaworth compares incel-aligned memes through the lens of hegemonic masculinity theory, questioning how masculinities are represented and the implications of this for their virality online. https://t.co/xd5C6SiOJL

— GNET (@GNET_research) November 27, 2023

1. Academia & Research

Widespread election fraud claims by Republicans don’t match the evidence, write Owen Averill, Annabel Hazrati, and @EKamarck in a recent commentary. https://t.co/vXQew45d62

— The Brookings Institution (@BrookingsInst) November 28, 2023

1. How do online users respond to crowdsourced fact-checking? (Nature, 25 November)
2. From deepfake to deep useful: risks and opportunities through a systematic literature review (arXiv, 27 November)
3. Psychological science can help counter spread of misinformation, says new report (Phys, 29 November)

"The ability of AI to fabricate convincing data adds to concern among researchers and journal editors about research integrity." Read about what happened when researchers used ChatGPT to create a fake data set. https://t.co/YfbGYSMtIC

— Brown Information Futures Lab (@IFL_Brown) November 28, 2023

2. Platforms & Technology

1. The legal framework for AI is being built in real time, and a ruling in the Sarah Silverman case should give publishers pause (Nieman Lab, 27 November)
2. Economies of Scale, Part I: Artificial Intelligence (American Purpose, 27 November)

Meta

1. Meta designed platforms to get children addicted, court documents allege (The Guardian, 27 November)

There’s a lot of new evidence that Meta’s platforms harm teens’ mental health.

It’s all part of a web in which the company tracks what young people do across the internet.

Our latest report: https://t.co/QP7vXpbrQj https://t.co/9zvIGTMnAx

— The Markup (@themarkup) November 27, 2023

TikTok 

1. Using TikTok to drive young people to the news (IJNet, 27 November)

If a fact check is coming 24h after a piece of content has gone viral, "at that point it’s very hard to put the genie back in the bottle," said ISD’s @iamisabellew speaking to @NBCNightlyNews on bin Laden's viral "Letter to America.”

Watch the clip here:https://t.co/CRUbciNXnb pic.twitter.com/N7UQNfkqp6

— Institute for Strategic Dialogue (@ISDglobal) November 28, 2023

X (Twitter)

1. ‘Serious breach’: social media platform X booted from Australia’s misinformation code (The Guardian, 27 November)
2. Elon Musk boosts Pizzagate conspiracy theory that led to D.C. gunfire (The Washington Post, 28 November)
3. Elon Musk's X reprimanded after disinformation safety feature scrapped (ABC, 28 November)

6 months ago, NPR left Twitter. The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that Twitter wasn’t worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic. https://t.co/hwhwtg2KSP

— Nieman Foundation (@niemanfdn) November 28, 2023