Disinfo Docket 4 December
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* Meta says AI had only ‘modest’ impact on global elections in 2024
* During Trump's second term, journalists must brace for a new level of attacks
* Why are people pouring milk down the drain over a cow feed additive?
* Meta says AI had only ‘modest’ impact on global elections in 2024
* During Trump's second term, journalists must brace for a new level of attacks
* Why are people pouring milk down the drain over a cow feed additive?
Highlights
- Lead in interface's Digital Public Sphere programme (Deadline 22 December)
- South Korea’s president has shocked the world – and plunged a country into crisis (The Telegraph, 3 December)
- Combatting Misinformation: AI, Media Literacy, And Psychological Resilience For Business Leaders And Educators (Forbes, 2 December)
- Analysis | Outraged? You’re more likely to share misinformation, study finds. (The Washington Post, 4 December)
- Top misinformation that dominated the media in 2024 (Fact Check Hub, 4 December)
1. Academia & Research
- Bringing leaders of network subgroups closer together does not facilitate consensus (Nature, 4 December)
- Researchers Consider the Relationship Between Misinformation, Outrage, and the Sharing of Content on Social Media (Tech Policy Press, 4 December)
- FastRM: An efficient and automatic explainability framework for multimodal generative models (arXiv, 2 December)
In 2024, about three-quarters of U.S. adults (77%) say news organizations tend to favor one side when presenting the news on political and social issues. Far fewer (22%) believe news organizations deal fairly with all sides. pic.twitter.com/DbJ1F18V1m
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) December 3, 2024
2. Platforms & Technology
- Employee lawsuit accuses Apple of spying on its workers (Semafor, 2 December)
- He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too (WIRED, 3 December)
- Musk Reinvented Platform Power. We Should Take Heed (Tech Policy Press, 4 December)
- Misinformation Expert Says AI to Blame for the Misinformation He Used in Defense of Anti-Misinformation Law (Latin Times, 4 December)
Important read from Taylor Owen 'On the Coming Merger of Tech and State Power' https://t.co/zCWtNAjBTV
— Dr. Emma L. Briant 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 (@EmmaLBriant) December 2, 2024