One Thing Is for Sure About the Coming Right-Wing Attacks on Kamala Harrisslate.com With Biden’s candidacy in question, the vice president is becoming much more of a target.
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What CSMaP Experts Are Watching Ahead of the 2024 Election: Part Twocsmapnyu.org From foreign influence campaigns to the role of WhatsApp to social media data access, part two of our new series highlights several areas we’re looking at this year.
Russia and China pounce on Trump rally shooting to undermine U.S.wapo.st Russia and China swarmed social media hours after the shooting at a Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pa., seizing on the assassination attempt to stoke disorder
Targeted Countries Should Demand Accountability from the Pentagon and Platforms for COVID Disinformation | TechPolicy.Presswww.techpolicy.press Independent researchers from targeted countries should collaborate to demand answers and accountability, writes Jonathan Corpus Ong.
What CSMaP Experts Are Watching Ahead of the 2024 Electioncsmapnyu.org From generative AI and misinformation, to young voters and TikTok, part one of our new series highlights several areas we’re looking at this year.
Launching the AI Political Archivecsmapnyu.org This new joint project seeks to track the full range of uses of generative AI across local, state, and national races in 2024.
Why the Texas and Florida Social Media Cases Are Important for Research Transparencywww.lawfaremedia.org The NetChoice cases may have far-reaching implications for the power of governments to mandate social media platform transparency and data access.
Has Facebook Stopped Trying?www.404media.co Facebook has been overrun with AI spam and scams. Experts say Facebook has stopped asking them for help.
Misinformation is winning the war on misinformationwww.vox.com Online falsehoods are as bad as they‘ve ever been. Does anyone care?
The deceptive Biden G7 video was quickly debunked, but it kept going viral anywaywww.nbcnews.com Despite fact-checks online, Big Tech platforms continued to spread a misleading video of President Joe Biden.
YouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videostcrn.ch YouTube is introducing a new experimental feature that will allow viewers to add “Notes” to provide more context and information under videos, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. If the feature sounds similar, it’s because it follows the same concept…
Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccineswww.reuters.com The covert effort began under Trump and continued into Biden’s presidency, Reuters found. Health experts say it endangered lives for possible geopolitical gain.
Politicians keep courting the TikTok vote. Users aren’t impressed | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com TikTok may not be as hot a place for politics as many seem to think.
Bridging the divide: Translating research on digital media into policy and practice | Issie Lapowsky | Knight Foundationknightfoundation.org This is the story of how research can inform action—impacting how we engage with technology and harness its potential for the common good.
Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation - Naturewww.nature.com This Perspective identifies common misperceptions regarding the harms of online misinformation, finding that exposure to false and inflammatory content is rare and concentrated among a small minority ...
Political Machines: Understanding the Role of AI in the U.S. 2024 Elections and Beyond - Center for Media Engagementbit.ly To better understand major trends and common concerns about the role of Generative AI in politics, the Center for Media Engagement conducted interviews with experts in the digital politics space.
What we do — and don’t — know about how misinformation spreads onlinewww.nature.com There are gaps in our understanding of how and why digital misinformation propagates. To help design effective interventions to minimize the spread of falsehoods, researchers need data and transparenc...
How AI Is Impacting the 2024 Electionswww.wired.com More than 60 countries are holding elections in 2024. Throughout the year, WIRED will be tracking every instance of AI's use in and around those campaigns.
Child Online Safety Legislation (COSL) - A Primer · The Bulletin of Technology & Public Lifecitap.pubpub.org This report analyzes international, federal, and state level legislation to protect child safety online. While well-meaning, this legislation is driven by moral panic rather than empirical evidence, i...
Child Online Safety Legislation (COSL) - A Primer · The Bulletin of Technology & Public Lifecitap.pubpub.org This report analyzes international, federal, and state level legislation to protect child safety online. While well-meaning, this legislation is driven by moral panic rather than empirical evidence, i...
How the U.S. ignored a chance to make TikTok saferwww.washingtonpost.com TikTok offered the Biden administration control over its U.S. operations and a kill switch if things went south. The administration took a pass.
Google Researchers Say AI Now Leading Disinformation Vector (and Are Severely Undercounting the Problem)www.404media.co It’s much easier to produce AI-generated disinformation than it is to fact check it.
Event Recap: The Future of Search in the Age of AIcsmapnyu.org How do search engines influence the information landscape — and what role could AI play going forward? We convened experts from academia, journalism, and industry to discuss these questions and more.
Google's New AI Search: Founders and CEOs Share Fears, Hopes About the Futurewww.inc.com A creative disruption? An industry decimator? We asked founders and thought leaders their predictions for what Google will transform in the age of generative AI.
Latinos in the U.S. get their news from social media, exposing them to risks | International Journalists' Networkijnet.org Latinos in the U.S. who use social media in Spanish are more likely to believe disinformation when they come across it, according to new research about the news consumption habits of Latino communitie...
Opinion: Restricting and monitoring social media won’t protect kids — here’s what will | CNNwww.cnn.com Restricting and monitoring kids’ access to social media — as two new acts, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act would do — won’t protect children, but active mediation and other supportive measures will, write Michal Luria and Aliya Bhatia.
How Modi and the BJP turned WhatsApp into an election-winning machinerestofworld.org An analysis of thousands of messages reveals how India’s ruling party uses the app to campaign free from public scrutiny.
The Future of Search Engines in the Age of AIwww.youtube.com Search engines have long been the cornerstone of online navigation, serving as the go-to tool for individuals seeking information on virtually any topic imaginable. Search engines have evolved considerably over the past two decades, with algorithms helping deliver more relevant results. At the same time, researchers have also shown how search engines may lead users to misinformation or extremist content, especially around fringe topics. Now, with the emergence of artificial intelligence, the future of search engines is at a pivotal crossroads. This virtual event convenes experts from academia, journalism, and industry to explore what we know about the influence of search engines on the information landscape, what role AI could play going forward, and what to consider ahead of the 2024 election. Panelists - Zoe Darmé - Senior Manager, Knowledge and Information, Trust, Google - Mia Sato - Platforms & Communities Reporter, The Verge - Francesca Tripodi - Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator at the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life, UNC-Chapel Hill - Zeve Sanderson - Executive Director, NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics (moderator) The following are additional resources shared by panelists during the event: The Verge: How Google perfected the web - https://www.theverge.com/c/23998379/google-search-seo-algorithm-webpage-optimization The Verge: The unsettling scourge of obituary spam - https://www.theverge.com/24065145/ai-obituary-spam-generative-clickbait Google: New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search - https://blog.google/products/search/google-search-update-march-2024/ Nature: Online searches to evaluate misinformation can increase its perceived veracity - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06883-y Francisca Tripodi's book: The Propagandists' Playbook: How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy - https://www.amazon.com/Propagandists-Playbook-Conservative-Manipulate-Democracy/dp/0300248946 Information, Communication & Society: 'Do your own research': affordance activation and disinformation spread - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2245869