DisinfoDocket 5 June

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Highlights

1. The Chatter Podcast: Information Ecology with Alicia Wanless (Lawfare, 2 June)
2. Strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation: Signatories to identify ways to step up work one year after launch (European Commission, 2 June)
3. She Built an App to Block Harassment on Twitter. Elon Musk Killed It (Time, 2 June)
4. The European Union and US Government announce they have adopted the DISARM framework, STIX standard and OpenCTI platform as a common standard for exchanging structured threat information (EEAS)
5. An update on our approach to US election misinformation (YouTube, 2 June)

YouTube scraps 2020 US election misinformation policy (France24, 3 June)

YouTube reverses misinformation policy to allow U.S. election denialism (AXIOS, 2 June)

1. Platforms & Technology

1. Twitter and Reddit's high-priced APIs are bad news for the internet's future (Mashable, 3 June)
2. What will stop AI from flooding the internet with fake images? (Vox, 3 June)
3. Majority of EU countries against network fee levy on Big Tech, sources say (Reuters, 3 June)
4. ChatGPT Is Cutting Non-English Languages Out of the AI Revolution (Wired, 31 May)

Meta

1. Meta found liable as court blocks firing of moderators (TechCrunch, 2 June)
2. Meta will test blocking news for some Canadians ahead of new law (The Verge, 2 January)
3. Meta Tries to Silence a Critic: Us; Suspends RFOB Instagram Account After Critical Post on Meta’s Threats to Freedom of Press in Canada (Real Facebook Oversight Board, 3 June)
4. Meta threatens to remove news from Instagram and Facebook over proposed California law (Nieman Lab, 31 May)
5. Instagram reinstates Robert Kennedy Jr. after launch of presidential bid (Washington Post, 4 June)
6. Facebook won't tackle fake news robots or make the site safer because they're afraid of losing users even for just one minute in a day, writes whistleblower Frances Haugen (Mail, 4 June)