DisinfoDocket 30 October

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Highlights

1. How to redesign social media algorithms to bridge divides (The Conversation, 27 October)
2. The Morning After: Leica’s new camera was built to fight disinformation (Engadget, 27 October)
3. Twitter takeover: 1 year later, X struggles with misinformation, usage decline (ABC, 27 October)

1. Platforms & Technology

1. Content Credentials That Label AI-Generated Images Are Coming To Mobile Phones And Cameras (Forbes, 27 October)
2. AI promises incredible benefits, but also terrible risks. It’s not luddism to rein it in (Guardian, 29 October)
3. How encrypted messaging apps spread war misinformation (CBC, 27 October)
4. The YouTube Effect Chronicles Internet’s Good, Bad, and Ugly: BU’s Joan Donovan leads a discussion about documentary with film’s director Alex Winter (Boston University Today, 27 October)

X (Twitter)

1. The Consequences of Elon Musk’s Ownership of X (NYT, 27 October)
2. Inside Elon Musk’s First Election Crisis—a Day After He ‘Freed’ the Bird (Wired, 27 October)

2. Israel & Palestine

1. Deconstructing the ‘beheaded babies’ misinformation in Israel’s war on Gaza (Global Voices, 27 October)
2. How to deal with visual misinformation circulating in the Israel-Hamas war and other conflicts (The Conversation, 27 October)
3. Why there’s a flood of misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war (CBC, 27 October)
4. A.I. Muddies Israel-Hamas War in Unexpected Way (NYT, 28 October)
5. Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will Support Starlink in Gaza for International Aid Groups (WSJ, 30 October)