Disinfo Docket 2 December
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Highlights
We're thankful for the expert authors and researchers who battle #disinformation and #misinformation across our communications ecosystem like @Sander_vdLinden @noUpside @ceciliakang @sheeraf @mariaressa and many others attached. https://t.co/08jsNlIAzT pic.twitter.com/IDbz8FnLoF
— The Integrity Project (@tipazorg) December 1, 2024
- Social media reforms to protect our kids online pass Parliament (Prime Minister of Australia, 29 November)
- How can Australia actually keep young people off social media and porn sites? A new trial will test 3 options (The Conversation, 2 December)
LISTEN: Stop the World: Artificial intimacy, persuasive technologies, and how bots can manipulate us (ASPI, 29 November)
1. Academia & Research
This festive season I’m sharing a video every day for the next 24 days showing useful OSINT tools & techniques. Creating this OSINT Advent Series has been a lot of fun and I hope it’s helpful for the ever-growing OSINT community! 🎄👇
— Benjamin Strick (@BenDoBrown) December 1, 2024
- Sir, A Fourth Chinese PR Firm has Hit the Internet (Memetic Warfare, 2 December)
- Meta to force financial advertisers to be verified in bid to prevent celebrity scam ads targeting Australians (Guardian, 1 December)
2. Platforms & Technology
“Algospeak” might seem like an online trend, but it actually serves an important function for users of platforms like TikTok and Instagram to circumvent algorithmic censorship. Watch our Forum session to learn what journalists should know: https://t.co/aIeWCHQZzR
— IJNet (@IJNet) November 30, 2024
- AI expert Marietje Schaake: ‘The way we think about technology is shaped by the tech companies themselves’ (Guardian, 30 November)
- Forget Bluesky and pre-Musk Twitter. Friendship is the only true antidote to polarisation (Irish times, 1 December)
- Instagram actively helping spread of self-harm among teenagers, study finds (Guardian, 30 November)
- AI for Fuzzy Context: Fact-Checking the Demonic Parade With Claude (The End(s) of Argument, 29 November)
- Scroll less, connect more: A new study shows how to make social media work for you (The Conversation, 1 December)
- ‘Brain rot’: Oxford word of the year 2024 reflects ‘trivial’ use of social media (Guardian, 2 December)