DisinfoDocket 31 July

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Highlights

🎉We are celebrating 2 years of the Online Violence Response Hub! 🌐

Launched by @TheCAOV, this resource center supports journalists and newsrooms facing #OnlineAbuse. Explore 150+ resources on safety advice, policies, mental health, and legal support.
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1. Platforms & Technology

1. AI could hurt businesses. Here’s how to protect yours (Fast Company, 24 July)
2. throwing a wet blanket on AI (wiczipedia, 29 July)
3. To Foster Competition In Social Media, Invest In Open Source Trust And Safety Tools  (TechDirt, 27 July)

Threads

1. Move fast and beat Musk: The inside story of how Meta built Threads (Washington Post, 29 July)
2. Meta's Threads needs a policy for election disinformation, voting groups say (NPR, 27 July)

Twitter

1. The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter (The Atlantic, 30 July)
2. Elon Musk reinstates Kanye West’s Twitter account after ban (Guardian, 30 July)