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DisinfoDocket 8 February

DisinfoDocket curates influence operations-related academic research, news, events and job opportunities.
DisinfoDocket 8 February
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Good morning! Don't miss -
* Disinformation: Opening speech by High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell at the EEAS Conference on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference
* Graphika's latest reoprt: Deepfake it till you make it
* Women in Myanmar doxxed and abused on Telegram by supporters of the military

Highlights:

  1. 1st EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats (EEAS, 7 February)
  2. Video claiming to be from this week’s earthquake in Turkey actually from 2020 (Full Fact, 7 February)
  3. Deepfake it Till You Make It (Graphika, 7 February)

1. Academia & Research

  1. Inside Harvard's misinformation meltdown (Semafor, 6 February)
  2. Resolving content moderation dilemmas between free speech and harmful misinformation (PNAS, 7 February)

2. Platforms & Technology

  1. Google launches ChatGPT rival called Bard (BBC, 6 February)
  2. OpenAI Apparently Paid People in the Developing World $2/Hour to Look at the Most Disturbing Content Imaginable (Futurism, 20 January)
  3. AI-Generated 'Seinfeld' Show Banned on Twitch After Transphobic Standup Bit (Vice, 6 February)
  4. Big Tech not doing enough to remove fake news, activist NGO Avaaz says (Reuters, 7 February)

Twitter

  1. Relatively Few People are Paying for Twitter Blue, New Numbers Suggest (Daily Beast, 6 February)
  2. Musk Pledged to Cleanse Twitter of Child Abuse Content. It’s Been Rough Going. (NYT, 6 February)
  3. Ex-Twitter execs to testify in Congress on handling of Hunter Biden laptop reporting (Guardian, 8 February)
  4. Musk’s Twitter Has Just 180,000 U.S. Subscribers, Two Months After Launch (The Information, 6 February)
  5. EU’s top diplomat fires warning shot at Elon Musk over Twitter disinformation (TechCrunch, 7 February)

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