Disinfo Docket 8 May

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Highlights

1. Speaker: Content moderation is free speech, not censorship (Cornell Chronicle, 7 May)
2. Generative AI Developers Should Commit to Free Speech and Access to Information (Tech Policy Press, 7 May)
3. Mayorkas: Implementation of AI can’t lead to 'a perpetuation of implicit bias' (The Record by Recorded Future, 7 May)
4. In a Europe increasingly fractured, this project is betting on one-on-one talks as a way to find common ground (Reuters Institute, 3 May)
5. OpenAI Releases 'Deepfake' Detector to Disinformation Researchers (The New York Times, 7 May)

1. Academia & Research

1. More feelings of misinformation lead to more news avoidance, study shows (Phys.org, 7 May)
2. Americans’ Changing Relationship With Local News (Pew Research Center, 7 May)

2. Platforms & Technology

CrowdTangle has been a critical tool used by journalists, researchers, and election observers to investigate the flow of information on Facebook and Instagram.

That's why we joined this letter urging Meta to reverse course and maintain CrowdTangle.

More 👇 https://t.co/Rf6jZCqDzF

— NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics (@CSMaP_NYU) May 7, 2024

1. Oversight Board announces new cases on posts that include "From The River to the Sea" (Oversight Board, 7 May)
2. Met Gala: BBC Verify examines fake Katy Perry AI-generated image (BBC, 7 May)
3. TikTok Sues US Over Law That Would Force Its Sale (Tech Policy Press, 7 May)
4. Anatomy of a scroll: Inside TikTok’s AI-powered algorithms (Politico, 7 May)

3. Russia & Ukraine

BREAKING: Ukraine detains two security officials over alleged Zelenskyy assassination plothttps://t.co/lub3ta8Qad

— Semafor (@semafor) May 7, 2024

1. What He Said and What it Really Means – Vol. 7: Putin as Czar (EUvsDisinfo, 7 May)
2. Moldova fights to free itself from Russia’s AI-powered disinformation machine (Politico, 7 May)
3. Navigating war and vanishing freedoms in Russia: The case of ROMB (IJNet, 6 May)
4. The TikTok Trail Of The U.S. Soldier Arrested In Russia Left By His Russian 'Wife' (Radio Free Europe, 7 May)