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
* 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:
- 1st EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats (EEAS, 7 February)
- Video claiming to be from this week’s earthquake in Turkey actually from 2020 (Full Fact, 7 February)
- Deepfake it Till You Make It (Graphika, 7 February)
As announced last week, Twitter will eliminate free access to its APIs this Thu (Feb 9). This thread collates alternative sources of social/digital media data + tools for collecting them.
— Deen Freelon (@dfreelon) February 6, 2023
1. Academia & Research
- Inside Harvard's misinformation meltdown (Semafor, 6 February)
- Resolving content moderation dilemmas between free speech and harmful misinformation (PNAS, 7 February)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Google launches ChatGPT rival called Bard (BBC, 6 February)
- OpenAI Apparently Paid People in the Developing World $2/Hour to Look at the Most Disturbing Content Imaginable (Futurism, 20 January)
- AI-Generated 'Seinfeld' Show Banned on Twitch After Transphobic Standup Bit (Vice, 6 February)
- Big Tech not doing enough to remove fake news, activist NGO Avaaz says (Reuters, 7 February)
- Relatively Few People are Paying for Twitter Blue, New Numbers Suggest (Daily Beast, 6 February)
- Musk Pledged to Cleanse Twitter of Child Abuse Content. It’s Been Rough Going. (NYT, 6 February)
- Ex-Twitter execs to testify in Congress on handling of Hunter Biden laptop reporting (Guardian, 8 February)
- Musk’s Twitter Has Just 180,000 U.S. Subscribers, Two Months After Launch (The Information, 6 February)
- EU’s top diplomat fires warning shot at Elon Musk over Twitter disinformation (TechCrunch, 7 February)