How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met Date:Feb 18, 2021 8:37 PM https://gizmodo.com/how-facebook-figures-out-everyone-youve-ever-met-1819822691 Short Notes: Authoritarian Regimes Could Exploit Cries of ‘Deepfake’ | WIRED Date:Feb 18, 2021 10:18 PM https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-authoritarian-regimes-could-exploit-cries-of-deepfake/ Short Notes: Facebook news ban: Scott Morrison takes media barganing code fight to India, world Date:Feb 19, 2021 6:56 AM https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/we-will-not-be-intimidated-pm-takes-facebook-fight-to-india-and-the-world-20210218-p573se.html Short Notes: Facebook expands program to fight climate lies - Axios Date:Feb 19, 2021 7:14 AM https://www.axios.com/facebook-climate-change-misinformation-dfc9558b-b48f-43ec-a4b0-41fa63e95f45.html Short Notes: Australia to Hold Talks With Facebook’s Zuckerberg After Block - Bloomberg Date:Feb 19, 2021 7:24 AM https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-18/australia-to-hold-talks-with-facebook-s-zuckerberg-after-block Short Notes: In Australia, Facebook’s ban on sharing news stories has sent publishers’ traffic tumbling » Nieman Journalism Lab Date:Feb 19, 2021 7:46 AM https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/02/in-australia-facebooks-ban-on-sharing-news-stories-has-sent-publishers-traffic-tumbling/ Short Notes: ParlInfo - Treasury Laws Amendment (News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code) Bill 2020 Date:Feb 19, 2021 8:17 AM https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=BillId_Phrase%3A%22r6652%22%20Dataset%3Abillsdgs;rec=0 Short Notes: Why Twitter Didn’t Stand Up For Freedom Of Speech In India Date:Feb 19, 2021 8:31 AM https://www.article-14.com/post/why-twitter-didn-t-stand-up-for-freedom-of-speech-in-india Short Notes: Right and left, partisanship predicts (asymmetric) vulnerability to misinformation | HKS Misinformation Review Date:Feb 19, 2021 11:48 AM https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/right-and-left-partisanship-predicts-asymmetric-vulnerability-to-misinformation/ Short Notes: Meet the man behind Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative - Rest of World Date:Feb 19, 2021 12:21 PM https://restofworld.org/2021/how-koo-became-a-right-wing-darling-in-india/ Short Notes: Analysis: Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking experiment reveals problems - Poynter Date:Feb 19, 2021 7:43 PM https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/analysis-twitters-crowdsourced-fact-checking-experiment-reveals-problems/ Short Notes: Why Farmers Still Don’t Trust the Government | Vivek Kaul Date:Feb 19, 2021 8:31 PM https://vivekkaul.com/2021/02/17/why-farmers-still-dont-trust-the-government/ Short Notes:background 'Nationalize' Facebook and Twitter as public goods | TheHill Date:Feb 19, 2021 9:13 PM https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/534458-nationalize-facebook-and-twitter-as-public-goods Short Notes: Coming bill would allow U.S. news publishers to team up when negotiating with Facebook, Google - The Hindu Date:Feb 19, 2021 10:03 PM https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/coming-bill-would-allow-us-news-publishers-to-team-up-when-negotiating-with-facebook-google/article33880939.ece Short Notes: Pretzelification of logic. Use this argument for Demonetization heart attacks. Link to Lee Mcintyre blaming post truth final chapter... Renee DiResta on Twitter: "https://t.co/fbS89e4oig https://t.co/Y6xL7aYmxe" / Twitter Date:Feb 19, 2021 10:06 PM https://mobile.twitter.com/noupside/status/1362788978429026305?s=12 Short Notes: Pro-govt actors amplify hashtags calling for violence against protesting farmers in India | by @DFRLab | DFRLab | Feb, 2021 | Medium Date:Feb 20, 2021 9:44 AM https://medium.com/dfrlab/pro-govt-actors-amplify-hashtags-calling-for-violence-against-protesting-farmers-in-india-9bd681cf6605 Short Notes:anti-rns Facebook is back at the table again, has tentatively friended us: Australia Date:Feb 20, 2021 10:06 AM https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/facebook-is-back-at-the-table-again-has-tentatively-friended-us-australia-121022000157_1.html Short Notes: What Digital Advertising Gets Wrong Date:Feb 20, 2021 10:11 AM https://hbr.org/2021/02/what-digital-advertising-gets-wrong Short Notes: Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes on big tech: Between California and China Date:Feb 20, 2021 10:29 AM https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/google-facebook-big-tech-regulation-pb-mehta-7196250/ Short Notes: Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes on big tech: Between California and China Date:Feb 20, 2021 10:33 AM https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/google-facebook-big-tech-regulation-pb-mehta-7196250/ Short Notes: joyojeet pal on Twitter: "We examined the discussions around switching from Twitter to Koo earlier this month. tl;dr: Nope. Here are our key findings @AryaArshia @DibyenduMishra 👏👏" / Twitter Date:Feb 20, 2021 2:00 PM https://twitter.com/joyopal/status/1363041359209238529 Short Notes: Weaponisation of online behaviour leading to offline harms...Live Law on Twitter: "ASG: Yes My Lord please look at this. Court: Please Sir. ASG: People were asked to come inside Delhi and join the protests, kindly look at this in light of the links, hashtags - which are instigating people. #DishaRavi #Toolkit" / Twitter Date:Feb 20, 2021 3:39 PM https://twitter.com/LiveLawIndia/status/1363067399428182022 Short Notes: Facebook in Australia: What happened after news was blocked? - BBC News Date:Feb 20, 2021 4:11 PM https://www.bbc.com/news/56127158 Short Notes: Nikhil Pahwa on Twitter: "I was on @alexandermats show on ET Now yesterday, to discuss Facebook and Google vs Australia when it comes to News content, and how they've taken different approaches. The key question: can this happen in India? A thread 👇 1/" / Twitter Date:Feb 20, 2021 5:15 PM https://twitter.com/nixxin/status/1363058210513424385 Short Notes: The Updated List of India's 'Anti-Nationals' (According to the Modi Government) Date:Feb 20, 2021 8:06 PM https://thewire.in/rights/india-modi-anti-national-protest-arrest-sedition-authoritarianism Short Notes: A Dainik Jagran guide to Adityanath government’s propaganda Date:Feb 20, 2021 8:19 PM https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/02/20/a-dainik-jagran-guide-to-adityanath-governments-propaganda Short Notes: Deplatform hypothetical case: A Dainik Jagran guide to Adityanath government’s propaganda Date:Feb 20, 2021 8:25 PM https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/02/20/a-dainik-jagran-guide-to-adityanath-governments-propaganda Short Notes: Nina Jankowicz on Twitter: "This is laughable. As we found in our research on gendered harassment & disinfo, algorithms can't keep up with #MalignCreativity - the use of iterative memes and coded language to avoid automated detection. Even if users turned this filter on, it likely wouldn't do much. Cop out." / Twitter Date:Feb 20, 2021 10:52 PM https://twitter.com/wiczipedia/status/1363142145998225409 Short Notes: Online Speech Is Now an Existential Question for Tech - WSJ Date:Feb 20, 2021 10:54 PM https://www.wsj.com/articles/online-speech-is-now-an-existential-question-for-tech-11613797254 Short Notes: YouTube AI Blocked Chess Channel after Confusing 'Black' and 'White' for Racist Slurs Date:Feb 21, 2021 7:51 AM https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/youtube-ai-blocked-chess-channel-after-confusing-black-and-white-for-racist-slurs-3454316.html Short Notes: How to respond to disinformation while protecting free speech | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Date:Feb 21, 2021 7:52 AM https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/how-respond-disinformation-while-protecting-free-speech Short Notes: Content moderation won't stop the spread of disinformation. Here's why. | The Conversationalist Date:Feb 21, 2021 7:54 AM https://conversationalist.org/2021/02/19/content-moderation-wont-stop-the-spread-of-disinformation-heres-why/ Short Notes: Thomas Baekdal on Twitter: "Note to publishers: Over the past several days, you have been screaming that Facebook should for links, so why do you think this is okay? Offer to pay for the media others produce or shut up. https://t.co/D0nThrFoRQ" / Twitter Date:Feb 21, 2021 7:09 PM https://twitter.com/baekdal/status/1363460227098624001 Short Notes: Kamra on Instagram: “Wah kya scene hai 😂😂😂” (incorrect flag) Date:Feb 21, 2021 10:26 PM https://www.instagram.com/p/CLjoN8Xl01K/ Short Notes: Why we can’t have nice things. Jokey internet... Kareena Kapoor Khan-Saif Ali Khan welcome baby boy: Netizens start hilarious meme fest on new parents, Taimur Ali Khan Date:Feb 22, 2021 8:26 AM https://www.dnaindia.com/bollywood/report-kareena-kapoor-khan-saif-ali-khan-welcome-baby-boy-netizens-start-hilarious-meme-fest-on-new-parents-taimur-ali-khan-2876713 Short Notes: Let's not be hasty now: Four ways India can start making Big Tech pay for news - The Economic Times Date:Feb 22, 2021 10:22 AM https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/media/entertainment/media/four-ways-india-can-start-making-big-tech-pay-for-news/articleshow/81144355.cms?from=mdr Short Notes: "The Internet Doesn't Need Civility, It Needs Ethics Ryan M Milner Whitney Phillips Date:Feb 22, 2021 11:41 AM" https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa5gxn/the-internet-doesnt-need-civility-it-needs-ethics Short Notes: China Censors the Internet. So Why Doesn’t Russia? - The New York Times Date:Feb 22, 2021 12:39 PM https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/21/world/europe/russia-internet-censorship.html Short Notes: The Best Books on The History of Information | Five Books Expert Recommendations Date:Feb 22, 2021 1:32 PM https://fivebooks.com/best-books/ann-blair-on-the-history-of-information/ Short Notes: Reuters on Twitter: "More than 100,000 farmers and farm workers gathered in India’s northern Punjab state in a show of strength against new agricultural laws that seek to deregulate the country's vast farm sector https://t.co/MLhf3fa44V https://t.co/wCoI3NQEhM" / Twitter - RNS farmer Date:Feb 22, 2021 2:21 PM https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1363550303841177602 Short Notes: DigiPub condemns FIR against Barkha Dutt, others for Unnao coverage | The News Minute Date:Feb 22, 2021 4:11 PM https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/digipub-condemns-fir-against-barkha-dutt-others-unnao-coverage-143936 Short Notes: Independent regulator needed to regulate content takedown on social media | India News - Times of India Date:Feb 22, 2021 4:41 PM https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/independent-regulator-needed-to-regulate-content-takedown-on-social-media/articleshow/81151869.cms?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=TOIDesktop Short Notes: Unnao case: FIR against 8 Twitter handles for 'fake news' - cnbctv18.com Date:Feb 22, 2021 5:29 PM https://www.cnbctv18.com/legal/unnao-case-fir-against-8-twitter-handles-for-fake-news-8385591.htm Short Notes: Not surprised TOI ran this verbatim without highlighting any of the issues with the code. Why tech companies must pay for media content: Read Microsoft president's letter - Times of India Date:Feb 22, 2021 5:32 PM https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/why-tech-companies-must-pay-for-media-content-read-microsoft-presidents-letter/articleshow/81148739.cms Short Notes:bandwagon Global tech firms in Australia launch anti-disinformation code Date:Feb 22, 2021 5:33 PM https://www.livemint.com/news/world/global-tech-firms-in-australia-launch-anti-disinformation-code-11613970217126.html Short Notes: Facebook political ad ban blocks pro-vaccine messages - POLITICO Date:Feb 23, 2021 7:02 AM https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/21/facebook-ad-pro-vaccine-ban-470304 Short Notes: The Grim Consequences of a Misleading Study on Disinformation | WIRED Date:Feb 23, 2021 7:06 AM https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-grim-consequences-of-a-misleading-study-on-disinformation/ Short Notes:Link to India page of OII study Pluralistic: 20 Feb 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow Date:Feb 23, 2021 7:18 AM https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/20/escape-velocity/ Short Notes: Capitalisn’t: Francis Fukuyama’s proposal to rein in Big Tech | Chicago Booth Review Date:Feb 23, 2021 7:22 AM https://review.chicagobooth.edu/economics/2020/article/capitalisn-t-francis-fukuyama-s-proposal-rein-big-tech Short Notes: Google to lift political ad ban put in place following Capitol siege - Axios Date:Feb 23, 2021 7:25 AM https://www.axios.com/capitol-siege-google-political-ad-ban-5000245d-35d6-4448-b7b2-daa7ccfe816a.html Short Notes: Ind-Aus bandwagon Modi should follow Morrison, demand Facebook and Google share revenues with news publishers Date:Feb 23, 2021 9:57 AM https://theprint.in/opinion/modi-should-follow-morrison-demand-facebook-and-google-share-revenues-with-news-publishers/609297/ Short Notes: Ind-Aus bandwagon Why tech companies must pay for media content: Read Microsoft president's letter - Times of India Date:Feb 23, 2021 9:57 AM https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/why-tech-companies-must-pay-for-media-content-read-microsoft-presidents-letter/articleshow/81148739.cms Short Notes: Marc-André Argentino on Twitter: "1/ tonight I was going through my notes from reading "Hate in the Homeland" by @milleridriss (I strongly reccomend the book) and I have some thoughts I want to share about what she discusses regarding sacred spaces/geography." / Twitter Date:Feb 23, 2021 10:08 AM https://twitter.com/_MAArgentino/status/1364059000170496001 Short Notes: (use the quote) Center for an Informed Public on Twitter: ""This isn't about finding a coherent narrative," @uwcip cofounder @katestarbird wrote this weekend in a tweet thread about allegations of voter fraud. "It's about creating doubt via throwing voter fraud spaghetti at the wall." (via @brianstelter @cnn) https://t.co/mzKyDAqRsk" / Twitter Date:Feb 23, 2021 10:26 AM https://twitter.com/uwcip/status/1363975331573473283 Short Notes: (podcast) Shelby Grossman: Online Foreign Influence Operations by Political Economy Forum • A podcast on Anchor Date:Feb 23, 2021 10:29 AM https://anchor.fm/nicolas-wittstock/episodes/Shelby-Grossman-Online-Foreign-Influence-Operations-eqpbj8 Short Notes: (podcast) EP #219 - 02.12.2021 - Disinformation, Conspiracy, Pandemic Date:Feb 23, 2021 10:30 AM https://covidcalls.podbean.com/e/ep-219-02122021-disinformation-conspiracy-pandemic/ Short Notes: TikTok users push 'fake' Texas snow conspiracy theory, melting videos Date:Feb 23, 2021 10:31 AM https://www.insider.com/fake-texas-snow-not-melting-tiktok-conspiracy-theory-2021-2 Short Notes: I started a media company in 2019 not to break news, but to unbreak it - Poynter Date:Feb 23, 2021 10:32 AM https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2021/i-started-a-media-company-in-2019-not-to-break-news-but-to-unbreak-it/ Short Notes: How BARC manipulated data on the pretext of ‘controlling outliers’ Date:Feb 23, 2021 10:36 AM https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/02/22/how-barc-manipulated-data-on-the-pretext-of-controlling-outliers Short Notes: Special Section on Comparative Approaches to Mis/Disinformation | Introduction - 3376 Date:Feb 23, 2021 10:40 AM https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/14799/3376 Short Notes: Scientific temper and nehruvian influence: how the millennials are handling the mythologization of science in India | Request PDF Date:Feb 23, 2021 10:42 AM https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349337219_Scientific_temper_and_nehruvian_influence_how_the_millennials_are_handling_the_mythologization_of_science_in_India Short Notes: REGULATION OF FAKE NEWS AND HATE SPEECH ON SOCIAL NETWORKS Date:Feb 23, 2021 10:44 AM http://www.uaos.unios.hr/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/ENG-zbornik-prijelom-2021_02_15.pdf#page=51 Short Notes: " Comparative Approaches to Mis/Disinformation| Special Section on Comparative Approaches to Mis/Disinformation Comparative Approaches to Mis/Disinformation| Special Section on Comparative Approaches to Mis/Disinformation - ICOJ Vol 15 (2021) Date:Feb 23, 2021 10:46 AM" https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/issue/view/17 Short Notes: Role of Public WhatsApp Groups Within the Hindutva Ecosystem of Hate and Narratives of “CoronaJihad” - 3370 Date:Feb 23, 2021 10:54 AM https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/16255/3370 Short Notes: Spreading fake news on C-19 vaccines considered ‘incitement’ - Khmer Times - Cambodia Date:Feb 23, 2021 10:56 AM https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50816839/spreading-fake-news-on-c-19-vaccines-considered-incitement/ Short Notes: No!! How Australia Saved Journalism From Big Tech | Time Date:Feb 23, 2021 10:57 AM https://time.com/5941316/australia-facebook-news-ban/ Short Notes: If Big Tech has the will, here are ways research shows self-regulation can work Date:Feb 23, 2021 10:59 AM https://theconversation.com/if-big-tech-has-the-will-here-are-ways-research-shows-self-regulation-can-work-154248 Short Notes: Facebook to restore news pages in Australia soon, says govt agreed to changes Date:Feb 23, 2021 11:10 AM https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/facebook-to-restore-news-pages-in-australia-soon-says-govt-agreed-to-changes-11614055311201.html Short Notes: Facebook to reverse news ban on Australian sites, government to make amendments to media bargaining code - ABC News Date:Feb 23, 2021 11:32 AM https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-23/facebook-reverses-news-ban-on-australian-sites-media-code/13173984 Short Notes: Can India’s Farmers Movement Help Reclaim the Indian Republic? | OPINION - RNS Farm protest Identity’ as a Force Multiplier Date:Feb 23, 2021 11:58 AM https://www.thequint.com/voices/opinion/india-farmers-protests-reclaiming-indian-republic-modi-government-farm-laws Short Notes:anti-rns section Memes and fake climate news are a bad combination Date:Feb 23, 2021 1:34 PM https://grist.org/politics/ifunny-memes-fake-news-biden-climate-plan/ Short Notes: Australia trying to save journalism from Facebook. Is U.S. next? - Los Angeles Times Date:Feb 23, 2021 1:55 PM https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-02-22/facebook-australia-news-blackout Short Notes: Regulate gatekeepers: Learn from Australian effort to reform the asymmetry between Big Tech and news media Date:Feb 23, 2021 1:58 PM https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-editorials/regulate-gatekeepers-learn-from-australian-effort-to-reform-the-asymmetry-between-big-tech-and-news-media/ Short Notes:AU bandwagon Facebook Strikes Deal to Restore News Sharing in Australia - The New York Times Date:Feb 23, 2021 4:18 PM https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/technology/facebook-australia-news.html Short Notes: Cong’s Udit Raj spreads ‘fake news’, booked | India News - Times of India Date:Feb 23, 2021 4:23 PM https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/congs-udit-raj-spreads-fake-news-booked/articleshow/81132804.cms Short Notes: Facebook Hashtag Purge Fails To Stop Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories Spreading Date:Feb 23, 2021 6:37 PM https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/02/23/facebook-and-instagram-hashtag-crackdown-struggles-to-shut-down-covid-19-conspiracies/ Short Notes: Facebook political ad ban blocks pro-vaccine messages - POLITICO Date:Feb 23, 2021 9:16 PM https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/21/facebook-ad-pro-vaccine-ban-470304 Short Notes: Presentations — Benedict Evans tech regulation section Date:Feb 23, 2021 9:33 PM https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations Short Notes: Understanding journalism (or its absence) in the Age of Conspiracy - Poynter Date:Feb 23, 2021 9:38 PM https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2021/understanding-journalism-or-its-absence-in-the-age-of-conspiracy/ Short Notes: Disclosing networks of state-linked information operations Date:Feb 23, 2021 10:55 PM https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/disclosing-networks-of-state-linked-information-operations-.html Short Notes: Microsoft throws Google under the bus in European news fight | Ars Technica Date:Feb 24, 2021 8:57 AM https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/microsoft-sides-with-european-news-sites-in-their-battle-with-google/?mc_cid=ca5c411eb5&mc_eid=3b71c66b21 Short Notes: In Australia vs Google and Facebook, does journalism really benefit? Date:Feb 24, 2021 9:59 AM https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/02/23/in-australia-vs-google-and-facebook-does-journalism-really-benefit Short Notes: Facebook, Google to target political ads, fake news in newly formed misinformation code Date:Feb 24, 2021 10:21 AM https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/political-ads-fake-news-targeted-in-newly-formed-misinformation-code-20210221-p574dq.html Short Notes: When Trust Fades, Facebook Is No Longer a Friend: Shifting Privatisation Dynamics in the Context of Cybersecurity as a Result of Disinformation, Populism and Political Uncertainty - Carrapico - - JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies - Wiley Online Library Date:Feb 24, 2021 10:23 AM https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcms.13175 Short Notes: Fair share: Like Australia, India must get internet giants to pay for news Date:Feb 24, 2021 10:25 AM https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-editorials/fair-share-like-australia-india-must-get-internet-giants-to-pay-for-news/ Short Notes: Farmers will gherao Parliament if govt doesn't repeal three agri laws: Tikait - The Economic Times - RNS Farm Date:Feb 24, 2021 10:40 AM https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/farmers-will-gherao-parliament-if-govt-doesnt-repeal-three-agri-laws-tikait/articleshow/81176002.cms Short Notes: Facebook's news ban 'experiment' is almost over. Here's what we've learnt - ABC News Date:Feb 24, 2021 11:32 AM https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-02-24/facebook-news-ban-experiment-australia-what-we-have-learnt/13183828 Short Notes: Leanne on Twitter: "Here is the text of the new Online Safety Bill: https://t.co/WbOhDXAuWx #AusLaw" / Twitter Date:Feb 24, 2021 12:44 PM https://twitter.com/MsLods/status/1364362019437039617 Short Notes: Social media companies are at the crossroads Date:Feb 24, 2021 12:45 PM https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/twitter-vs-india-and-facebook-vs-australia-both-cases-display-symptoms-of-the-same-problem Short Notes: Tucker Carlson appears to reference a COVID-19 conspiracy theory by claiming Bill Gates has 'powers' over our bodies | Business Insider India Date:Feb 24, 2021 12:47 PM https://www.businessinsider.in/thelife/news/tucker-carlson-appears-to-reference-a-covid-19-conspiracy-theory-by-claiming-bill-gates-has-powers-over-our-bodies/articleshow/81181847.cms Short Notes: A Liberal Senator Wants A Inquiry Into Tech Platforms Shadow Banning and Deplatforming Date:Feb 24, 2021 12:51 PM https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/02/a-liberal-senator-wants-a-inquiry-into-tech-platforms-shadow-banning-and-deplatforming/ Short Notes: UNESCO Online Violence Against Women Journalists - A Global Snapshot Dec9pm.pdf Date:Feb 24, 2021 1:13 PM https://www.icfj.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/UNESCO%20Online%20Violence%20Against%20Women%20Journalists%20-%20A%20Global%20Snapshot%20Dec9pm.pdf Short Notes: Preparing for Disinformation Campaigns and Online Harassment - Global Investigative Journalism Network Date:Feb 24, 2021 1:14 PM https://gijn.org/2021/02/24/preparing-for-disinformation-campaigns-and-online-harassment/ Short Notes: Tucker Carlson: Mainstream media disinformation more powerful and destructive than QAnon | Fox News Date:Feb 24, 2021 1:15 PM https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-media-disinformation-more-powerful-destructive-qanon Short Notes: ‘Spread of Fake News’ Picked as Most Serious YouTube-related Social Problem | Be Korea-savvy Date:Feb 24, 2021 1:17 PM http://koreabizwire.com/spread-of-fake-news-picked-as-most-serious-youtube-related-social-problem/183112 Short Notes: The ‘Experts’ Cited by the New Censors - WSJ Date:Feb 24, 2021 1:20 PM https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-experts-cited-by-the-new-censors-11614128309 Short Notes: Weaponized-How-rumors-about-COVID-19s-origins-led-to-a-narrative-arms-race.pdf Date:Feb 24, 2021 1:23 PM https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Weaponized-How-rumors-about-COVID-19s-origins-led-to-a-narrative-arms-race.pdf Short Notes: Facebook China misinformation: Cash for propaganda - Press Gazette Date:Feb 24, 2021 1:27 PM https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/facebook-china-misinformation/ Short Notes: 'Give Ofcom the power to demand Facebook to explain its algorithms', Full Fact urges UK parliament | Media news Date:Feb 24, 2021 1:27 PM https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/full-fact-tells-uk-parliament-give-ofcom-the-power-to-make-facebook-more-transparent-with-its-algorithms/s2/a798899/ Short Notes: Tracking Viral Misinformation - The New York Times Date:Feb 24, 2021 1:32 PM https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/2020-election-misinformation-distortions[[youtube]]-clamped-down-on-content-but-researchers-say-qanon-still-spread Short Notes: CoVaxxy tool visualizes relationship between online misinformation and COVID-19 vaccine adoption | Mirage News Date:Feb 24, 2021 1:33 PM https://www.miragenews.com/covaxxy-tool-visualizes-relationship-between-518321/ Short Notes: Action against social media abuse could have some unwelcome outcomes - iPolitics Date:Feb 24, 2021 1:37 PM https://ipolitics.ca/2021/02/23/action-against-social-media-abuse-could-have-some-unwelcome-outcomes/ Short Notes: India’s Social Media Influencers Get New Guidelines For Advertising Date:Feb 24, 2021 1:38 PM https://inc42.com/buzz/indias-social-media-influencers-get-new-guidelines-for-advertising/ Short Notes: Canada Announces Plans for News Media Code; Twitter's Birdwatch in a Flap | ExchangeWire.com Date:Feb 24, 2021 1:39 PM https://www.exchangewire.com/blog/2021/02/23/canada-announces-plans-for-news-media-code-twitters-birdwatch-in-a-flap/ Short Notes: Trump supporters, conspiracists shift to new social media sites | Donald Trump News | Al Jazeera Date:Feb 24, 2021 1:40 PM https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/23/supports-of-trump-conspiracies-shift-to-new-social-media-sites Short Notes: How memes became a major vehicle for misinformation - Axios Date:Feb 24, 2021 1:41 PM https://www.axios.com/memes-misinformation-coronavirus-56-2c3e88be-237e-49c1-ab9d-e5cf4d2283ff.html Short Notes: Why Transparency Won’t Save Us | Centre for International Governance Innovation Date:Feb 24, 2021 1:57 PM https://www.cigionline.org/articles/why-transparency-wont-save-us Short Notes: Full article: Early oil industry disinformation on global warming Date:Feb 24, 2021 2:26 PM https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2020.1863703 Short Notes: Koo Is Filled With Hate Date:Feb 24, 2021 4:46 PM https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/koo-muslim-hate-india Short Notes: Ranking Digital Rights - 2020 RDR Corporate Accountability Index Date:Feb 24, 2021 10:07 PM https://rankingdigitalrights.org/index2020/ Short Notes: Internet companies should provide real-time data on disinformation, Lords told Date:Feb 24, 2021 10:22 PM https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252496846/Internet-companies-should-provide-real-time-data-on-disinformation-Lords-told Short Notes: How deceptive memes spread misinformation - CBS News memestoo Date:Feb 24, 2021 10:26 PM https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-memes-serve-as-deceiving-vehicles-for-dangerous-online-misinformation/ Short Notes: TikTok took down more than 300k videos for spreading election misinformation Date:Feb 24, 2021 10:29 PM https://www.engadget.com/tiktok-transparency-report-misinformation-120055822.html Short Notes: Congress focuses on cable providers' role in spreading misinformation - Axios Date:Feb 24, 2021 10:29 PM https://www.axios.com/congress-cable-tv-misinformation-ed260963-6cef-470e-94cd-10ddaa1b6107.html Short Notes: Disha Ravi: A Target Of Disinformation Date:Feb 24, 2021 10:31 PM https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/fake-news-disha-ravi-toolkit-case-delhi-police-disinformation-fake-twitter-accounts-religion-lawyer-akhil-sibal-factcheck-12112 Short Notes: 'Fake news': Varun Gandhi slaps legal notice on portal claiming he could upset BJP math in Uttar Pradesh - The Financial Express Date:Feb 24, 2021 10:32 PM https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/fake-news-varun-gandhi-slaps-legal-notice-on-portal-claiming-he-could-upset-bjp-math-in-uttar-pradesh/2201015/ Short Notes: AN ONTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF MISINFORMATION IN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS Date:Feb 24, 2021 10:36 PM https://researchhub-paper-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/papers/2021/02/24/2102.11362v1.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIA3RZN3OVNPLBMN3JX&Signature=%2FPuszxGPOHIysj5NB4vnAaMxyas%3D&Expires=1614758350 Short Notes: Paul Rusesabagina’s trial in Rwanda and how digital technology helps governments target critics abroad. Date:Feb 24, 2021 10:40 PM https://slate.com/technology/2021/02/paul-rusesabagina-rwanda-trial-digital-technology-critics-abroad.html Short Notes: Sheryl Sandberg and Top Facebook Execs Silenced an Enemy of Turkey to Prevent a Hit to the Company’s Business Date:Feb 24, 2021 10:46 PM https://www.propublica.org/article/sheryl-sandberg-and-top-facebook-execs-silenced-an-enemy-of-turkey-to-prevent-a-hit-to-their-business Short Notes: Twitter’s Modi Operandi – Verfassungsblog Date:Feb 25, 2021 6:25 AM https://verfassungsblog.de/twitters-modi-operandi/ Short Notes: Double Check: Fact Checking the West Bengal Assembly Election Date:Feb 25, 2021 7:45 AM https://www.logically.ai/articles/fact-checking-the-west-bengal-assembly-election Short Notes: China Sets New Rules to Restrict Independent Online Content Creators - Variety Date:Feb 25, 2021 8:22 AM https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/china-cac-self-media-new-regulations-censorship-1234913799/ Short Notes: Pakistan lawmaker apologises for tweet hurting Hindu community's sentiments | Deccan Herald - Date:Feb 25, 2021 4:58 PM https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/pakistan-lawmaker-apologises-for-tweet-hurting-hindu-communitys-sentiments-955163.html Short Notes: https://youtube.com/watch?v=H0eqWuj84-0&feature=share Date:Feb 25, 2021 7:02 PM Short Notes:Read between the lines Govt Now Says Controversial Rules for Online International Seminars No 'Longer Applicable' Date:Feb 25, 2021 9:42 PM https://thewire.in/government/government-rules-online-international-seminars-no-longer-applicable-covid Short Notes: How WhatsApp ‘Truths’ Thrive on Middle-Class Anxieties | Economic and Political Weekly Date:Feb 25, 2021 10:06 PM https://www.epw.in/engage/article/how-whatsapp-truths-thrive-middle-class Short Notes:from 2019 Algorithms That Curate Feeds & Tech Company Secrecy - Consumer Reports Date:Feb 25, 2021 10:44 PM https://www.consumerreports.org/consumer-protection/tech-companies-too-secretive-about-algorithms-that-curate-feeds/ Short Notes: Why Is Air China Demanding An Apology From A Global Media House Based In The UK? Date:Feb 25, 2021 10:51 PM https://eurasiantimes.com/why-is-air-china-demanding-an-apology-from-a-global-media-house-based-in-the-uk/ Short Notes: Regulations on social media evoke divergent views from legal experts | Business Standard News Date:Feb 25, 2021 10:52 PM https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/regulations-on-social-media-evoke-divergent-views-from-legal-experts-121022501353_1.html Short Notes: koo: New social media guidelines a move in right direction, says Koo founder - The Economic Times Date:Feb 25, 2021 11:00 PM https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/expert-view/new-social-media-guidelines-a-move-in-right-direction-says-koo-founder/articleshow/81212215.cms Short Notes: News site falsely accuses Kashmiri journalist of ‘working for ISI’. Zee News, IANS amplify smear Date:Feb 25, 2021 11:02 PM https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/02/25/news-site-falsely-accuses-kashmiri-journalist-of-working-for-isi-zee-news-ians-amplify-smear Short Notes: Patanjali condemns IMA for seeking explanation from Dr Harsh Vardhan over Coronil-ANI - BW Businessworld Date:Feb 25, 2021 11:07 PM http://www.businessworld.in/article/Patanjali-condemns-IMA-for-seeking-explanation-from-Dr-Harsh-Vardhan-over-Coronil/25-02-2021-381793 Short Notes: TikTok Transparency Report Says US, India Made Most Legal Requests for User Information in Second Half of 2020 | Technology News Date:Feb 25, 2021 11:08 PM https://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/tiktok-india-government-legal-requests-103-covid-19-misinformation-videos-removed-h2-2020-transparency-report-2378554 Short Notes: clubhouse: From Clubhouse to Twitter Spaces, social media grapples with live audio moderation - The Economic Times Date:Feb 25, 2021 11:09 PM https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/from-clubhouse-to-twitter-spaces-social-media-grapples-with-live-audio-moderation/articleshow/81211820.cms Short Notes: Compensate Indian newspapers for use of content comprehensively, share advertising revenues properly: INS President to Google Date:Feb 25, 2021 11:09 PM https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/compensate-indian-newspapers-for-use-of-content-comprehensively-share-advertising-revenues-properly-ins-president-to-google Short Notes: Man arrested for spreading fake news that Hyderabad Balanagar flyover collapsed | The News Minute Date:Feb 25, 2021 11:15 PM https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/man-arrested-spreading-fake-news-hyderabad-balanagar-flyover-collapsed-144178 Short Notes: Using 'toolkit' for misinformation not acceptable, says Delhi Police Commissioner- The New Indian Express Date:Feb 25, 2021 11:18 PM https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2021/feb/25/using-toolkit-for-misinformation-not-acceptable-says-delhi-police-commissioner-2268845.html Short Notes: Global Telecom and Tech Companies Fail to Address Digital Rights Of Users, Says New Report Date:Feb 25, 2021 11:19 PM https://thewire.in/tech/global-telecom-tech-companies-fail-address-digital-rights-users-report Short Notes: Countering Chinese Propaganda Act introduced in US Congress Date:Feb 25, 2021 11:20 PM https://in.news.yahoo.com/countering-chinese-propaganda-act-introduced-034445569.html Short Notes: Indian publishers push for Aus-like deal with Google to claim a ‘fair share’ in revenue - Exchange4media Date:Feb 25, 2021 11:22 PM https://www.exchange4media.com/media-print-news/indian-publishers-push-for-aus-like-deal-with-google-for-fair-share-in-revenue-111169.html Short Notes: GCHQ using AI to fight child abuse, disinformation and trafficking Date:Feb 25, 2021 11:27 PM https://digit.fyi/gchq-using-ai-to-fight-child-abuse-disinformation-and-trafficking/ Short Notes: We can't trust big tech or the government to weed out fake news, but a public-led approach just might work Date:Feb 25, 2021 11:30 PM https://theconversation.com/we-cant-trust-big-tech-or-the-government-to-weed-out-fake-news-but-a-public-led-approach-just-might-work-155955 Short Notes: Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter Face New Rules in India - WSJ Date:Feb 25, 2021 11:43 PM https://accounts.wsj.com/login?target=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Ffacebook-whatsapp-and-twitter-face-new-rules-in-india-11614250424%3Fmod%3Dmhp Short Notes: Rasmus Kleis Nielsen on Twitter: "Talked democratic creative destruction, filter bubbles, polarization, business of news, and media policy with @EvelynDouek and @QJurecic on the great @lawfareblog podcast - some links to underlying @risj_oxford in thread below https://t.co/Gb7IrCVzUi 1/6" / Twitter Date:Feb 25, 2021 11:45 PM https://twitter.com/rasmus_kleis/status/1364932836160131081 Short Notes: Aram Zucker-Scharff on Twitter: "@swodinsky @tomgara @TimothyBuckSF @cwarzel The answer to why tech companies don't put their engineers on the front line of press convos is 1. The problems are always way worse than you think and in trying to explain they'll accidentally show entirely different problems ..." / Twitter Date:Feb 25, 2021 11:47 PM https://twitter.com/Chronotope/status/1364576818167177217 Short Notes: Ad-funded COVID-19 conspiracy sites: A look at the EU – GDI Date:Feb 25, 2021 11:48 PM https://disinformationindex.org/2021/02/ad-funded-covid-19-conspiracy-sites-a-look-at-the-eu/ Short Notes: Data & Society on Twitter: ""While it is important to give users choices, we can no longer place all of the burdens of managing risk & avoiding harms at the feet of the users." — @Amanda_Lenhart interviewed by @AllTechIsHuman https://t.co/i5GTRwxEgW" / Twitter Date:Feb 25, 2021 11:50 PM https://twitter.com/datasociety/status/1365001112248610818 Short Notes: 4 Arrested For Duping Over 4,000 People Through Fake Government Websites In Delhi Date:Feb 26, 2021 6:52 AM https://www.ndtv.com/delhi-news/4-arrested-for-duping-over-4-000-people-through-fake-government-websites-in-delhi-2378862 Short Notes: Fake news ‘deadly’ for critics | The Star Date:Feb 26, 2021 9:37 AM https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2021/02/26/fake-news-deadly-for-critics Short Notes: Axis of Disinformation: Propaganda from Iran, Russia, and China on COVID-19 | The Washington Institute Date:Feb 26, 2021 9:38 AM https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/axis-disinformation-propaganda-iran-russia-and-china-covid-19 Short Notes: The Censorship Party - WSJ Date:Feb 26, 2021 9:39 AM https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-censorship-party-11614296803 Short Notes: America's Leaders Have No Clue What to Do About Disinformation Date:Feb 26, 2021 9:42 AM https://gizmodo.com/americas-leaders-have-no-clue-what-to-do-about-disinfor-1846346303 Short Notes: Disinformation threatens evidence-based policymaking | The Strategist Date:Feb 26, 2021 9:45 AM https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/disinformation-threatens-evidence-based-policymaking/ Short Notes: The conspiracy business: How to make money with fake news | Business| Economy and finance news from a German perspective | DW | 25.02.2021 Date:Feb 26, 2021 9:57 AM https://www.dw.com/en/the-conspiracy-business-how-to-make-money-with-fake-news/a-56660466 Short Notes: Farmer Protests and Cotton Capitalism in India - WORT 89.9 FM RNS-Farm Date:Feb 26, 2021 10:47 AM https://www.wortfm.org/farmer-protests-and-cotton-capitalism-in-india/ Short Notes: Google's Sky News Australia team-up will make it a climate misinformation powerhouse | RenewEconomy Date:Feb 26, 2021 10:52 AM https://reneweconomy.com.au/googles-sky-news-australia-team-up-will-make-it-a-climate-misinformation-powerhouse/ Short Notes: India Needs a Fresh Strategy to Tackle Online Extreme Speech | Economic and Political Weekly Date:Feb 26, 2021 1:35 PM https://www.epw.in/engage/article/election-2019-india-needs-fresh-strategy-to-tackle-new-digital-tools Short Notes: How Belarus’s protesters staged a digital revolution Date:Feb 26, 2021 8:17 PM https://www.ft.com/content/a68a1c28-fdd0-4800-9339-6ca1e81d456a Short Notes: State-backed Information Manipulation: The French Node | Institut Montaigne Date:Feb 26, 2021 11:58 PM https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/publications/state-backed-information-manipulation-french-node Short Notes: What if Instead of Calling People Out, We Called Them In? - The New York Times Date:Feb 27, 2021 7:24 AM https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/style/loretta-ross-smith-college-cancel-culture.html?referringSource=articleShare Short Notes:link to malika raghavan oped about civility? Canceling | ContraPoints - YouTube Date:Feb 27, 2021 7:34 AM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjMPJVmXxV8 Short Notes: Crockett Lab Date:Feb 27, 2021 7:40 AM http://www.crockettlab.org/ Short Notes: Bots hyped up GameStop on major social media platforms, analysis finds | Reuters Date:Feb 27, 2021 9:05 AM https://www.reuters.com/article/us-retail-trading-gamestop-robots-idUSKBN2AQ2BH Short Notes: Shockingly Real Tom Cruise Deepfakes Are Invading TikTok Date:Feb 27, 2021 9:06 AM https://www.thedailybeast.com/shockingly-real-tom-cruise-deepfakes-are-invading-tiktok Short Notes:Fakes, lies and video-deepfakes US removes stumbling block to global deal on digital tax | Financial Times Date:Feb 27, 2021 9:08 AM https://www.ft.com/content/c2a6808e-ec6d-41d5-85e9-3a27c2b2c1bc Short Notes: Rappler on Twitter: "Internal documents from Twinmark Media Enterprises, the agency banned by Facebook for coordinated fake behavior, show how the power of celebrities is used for money and disinformation. Read this investigative story by Camille Elemia and Gelo Gonzales: https://t.co/tGpvJoSVAa" / Twitter Date:Feb 27, 2021 9:13 AM https://twitter.com/rapplerdotcom/status/1365495432353353731 Short Notes: Factorization of Fact-Checks for Low Resource Indian Languages - 2102.11276.pdf Date:Feb 27, 2021 11:28 AM https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.11276.pdf Short Notes: Social Networks Analysis to Retrieve Critical Comments on Online Platforms.pdf Date:Feb 27, 2021 11:29 AM https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2102/2102.10495.pdf Short Notes: What is an “algorithm”? It depends whom you ask Date:Feb 27, 2021 5:24 PM https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/26/1020007/what-is-an-algorithm/ Short Notes: Inside a BJP Influence Operation Targeting West Bengali Politics Date:Feb 27, 2021 11:35 PM https://benjaminstrick.com/inside-an-influence-operation-targeting-west-bengali-politics/ Short Notes:Elections West Bengal Elections 2021: Beyond The Trend: Analyzing BJP’s Social Media ‘Toolkit’ in Bengal Date:Feb 27, 2021 11:37 PM https://www.thequint.com/news/politics/beyond-the-trend-analyzing-bjps-social-media-toolkit-in-bengal[[read]]-more Short Notes:Elections Authoritarian Regimes Could Exploit Cries of ‘Deepfake’ | WIRED Date:Feb 28, 2021 12:14 AM https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-authoritarian-regimes-could-exploit-cries-of-deepfake/ Short Notes:Fakes, Lies and Video-deepfakes Bangladeshi Writer, Detained Over Social Media Posts, Dies in Jail - The New York Times Date:Feb 28, 2021 12:21 AM https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/world/asia/bangladesh-mushtaq-ahmed-dead.html Short Notes: India Targets Climate Activists With the Help of Big Tech Date:Feb 28, 2021 12:33 AM https://theintercept.com/2021/02/27/india-climate-activists-twitter-google-facebook/ Short Notes: How hackers use your social media posts to scam you Date:Feb 28, 2021 6:52 PM https://www.fastcompany.com/90606386/social-media-scam-phishing-ethical-hacker?partner=rss&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss Short Notes: The Social Media Anatomy of New Radical Groups in Kashmir – GNET Date:Feb 28, 2021 6:56 PM https://gnet-research.org/2021/02/24/the-social-media-anatomy-of-new-radical-groups-in-kashmir/ Short Notes: Malavika Raghavan writes: For more online civility, we will need deeper engagement, careful legislation Date:Mar 1, 2021 10:02 AM https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/social-media-ott-rules-india-digital-content-publishers-7208935/ Short Notes: Mozilla Foundation - Fellow Research: The Decentralized Web of Hate - RNS farm Date:Mar 1, 2021 10:58 AM https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/fellow-research-decentralized-web-hate/ Short Notes: S on Twitter: "In the summer of 2020 amid a raging pandemic, I was trolled endlessly. That trolling was so strong that I end up losing my job, my family was targetted, my photos and addresses were leaked and I got rape and murder threats. https://t.co/TEQ7esJRnR" / Twitter Date:Mar 1, 2021 12:27 PM https://twitter.com/seekingsrishti/status/1366261852590673921 Short Notes: Inside the Hindu IT Cell: The men who went online to protect gods Date:Mar 1, 2021 12:28 PM https://www.newslaundry.com/amp/story/2021%2F03%2F01%2Finside-the-hindu-it-cell-the-men-who-went-online-to-protect-gods Short Notes: Saahil Murli Menghani on Twitter: "#Verified 👉Celebration of 1 month of revival of #FarmersProtest 👉Jan28- Sarkar & #GodiMedia tried ending it. Move backfired & it spread 👉Watch them enjoying patriotic songs. Patriotism is to be ENJOYED by citizens, not to spread hate Full Party 🔗- https://t.co/ca18JVLkd2 https://t.co/5HGteK5TQk" / Twitter - RNS Farm Date:Mar 1, 2021 6:17 PM https://twitter.com/saahilmenghani/status/1366074896510455813 Short Notes:background Not afraid of coronavirus, won't take jabs: Farmer leaders in vulnerable age group | Hindustan Times Date:Mar 1, 2021 6:20 PM https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/not-afraid-of-coronavirus-won-t-take-jabs-farmer-leaders-in-vulnerable-age-group-101614602073483.html Short Notes: Uttar Pradesh: Section 144 imposed in Saharanpur ahead of Kisan Mahapanchayat - Oneindia News rnsfarm Date:Mar 1, 2021 10:32 PM https://www.oneindia.com/india/uttar-pradesh-section-144-imposed-in-saharanpur-ahead-of-kisan-mahapanchayat-3214854.html Short Notes: “Networked” Revolutions? ICTs and Protest Mobilization in Non-Democratic Regimes - Ashley Anderson, 2020 RNS Farm (line from abstract on offline memberships) Date:Mar 2, 2021 7:52 AM https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1065912920958071 Short Notes: The yellow vests and the communicative constitution of a protest movement - Jonathan Clifton, Patrice de la Broise, 2020 RNS farm (suspicion of mainstream media and use of alternative information sources) Date:Mar 2, 2021 7:54 AM https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1750481320910516 Short Notes: The Rise of the Permanent Protest | The New Republic Date:Mar 2, 2021 7:59 AM https://newrepublic.com/article/155893/rise-permanent-protest-decade-from-hell Short Notes: Climate change in the Indian farmers' protest, by Zafar Imran (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, February 2021) Date:Mar 2, 2021 8:01 AM https://mondediplo.com/outsidein/climate-indian-farmers Short Notes: Too Famous to Protest: Far-Right Online Community Bonding Over Collective Desecration of Colin Kaepernick, Fame, and Celebrity Activism - Spring-Serenity Duvall, 2020 RNS Farm (look for similarity to Rihanna, Greta tweets) Date:Mar 2, 2021 8:03 AM https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0196859920911650 Short Notes:Rallying cause for insular identity? Fake News and Conspiracy Theories Date:Mar 2, 2021 8:04 AM https://www.americanpurpose.com/blog/fukuyama/fake-news-and-conspiracy-theories/ Short Notes:narratives and derad The Power of the Intersectional Protest Image | JSTOR Daily [Media coverage of protests] RNS Farm Date:Mar 2, 2021 9:13 AM https://daily.jstor.org/intersectional-protest-image/ Short Notes: Anatomy of a Protest: Spatial Information, Social Media, and Urban Space - Alireza Karduni, Eric Sauda, 2020 RNS Farm: 2 groups particpation: hybrid + through social media Date:Mar 2, 2021 9:19 AM https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305119897320 Short Notes: Chinese scribe charged under new law for Galwan comments - The Hindu Date:Mar 2, 2021 11:58 AM https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/chinese-scribe-charged-under-new-law-for-galwan-comments/article33965793.ece Short Notes:China’s new onerous rules Twitter will now ban users for spreading coronavirus vaccine misinformation Date:Mar 2, 2021 12:12 PM https://mashable.com/article/twitter-coronavirus-misinformation-strikes-ban/ Short Notes:Vaxxinf and warning The Internet Society, a digital advocacy body, says India must not force traceability - The Economic Times Date:Mar 2, 2021 12:32 PM https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/the-internet-society-a-digital-advocacy-body-says-india-must-not-force-traceability/articleshow/81288484.cms Short Notes: Sonali Vaid on Twitter: "Spending hours talking to friends and family and trying to clear vaccine doubts. Govts haste (wrt covaxin) has caused much unnecessary waste! This was totally avoidable. This will open up a whole host of issues when people will start doubting routine vaccines also 🤦🏽‍♀️" / Twitter Date:Mar 2, 2021 1:12 PM https://twitter.com/SonaliVaid/status/1366654793150697473 Short Notes: Karnataka High Court refuses to stay proceedings against Kangana Ranaut for tweets on Farmers Protests - Courts as content moderation tribunals Date:Mar 2, 2021 1:17 PM https://www.barandbench.com/news/karnataka-high-court-refuses-stay-proceedings-kangana-ranaut-tweets-farmers-protests Short Notes:content moderation via courts When govt becomes the judge,  jury and executioner- The New Indian Express Date:Mar 2, 2021 1:46 PM https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/editorials/2021/mar/02/when-govt-becomes-the-judge-jury-and-executioner-2270906.html Short Notes: When govt becomes the judge,  jury and executioner- The New Indian Express Date:Mar 2, 2021 1:46 PM https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/editorials/2021/mar/02/when-govt-becomes-the-judge-jury-and-executioner-2270906.html Short Notes: Hashtags should be treated as political ads, says panel | India News - Times of India Date:Mar 2, 2021 1:48 PM https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/hashtags-should-be-treated-as-political-ads-says-panel/articleshow/81284234.cms Short Notes:Elections TikTok launches ‘Safety Advisory Council’ in Europe – POLITICO Date:Mar 2, 2021 4:40 PM https://www.politico.eu/article/tiktok-launches-safety-advisory-council-in-europe/ Short Notes: Manipur scribe first to be targeted under Centre's new digital media rules, gets notice | The News Minute Date:Mar 2, 2021 7:04 PM https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/manipur-scribe-first-be-targeted-under-centres-new-digital-media-rules-gets-notice-144467 Short Notes: Quoting me falsely Date:Mar 2, 2021 8:47 PM https://twitter.com/zoo_bear/status/1366736458019524609?s=12 Short Notes: Why Facebook is losing friends in Hong Kong - Rest of World Date:Mar 2, 2021 9:33 PM https://restofworld.org/2021/why-facebook-is-losing-hongkong/ Short Notes: Fact Check | Image From 2019 Viral as ‘Massive Crowds at Congress-Left Rally in WB’ Date:Mar 2, 2021 10:42 PM https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/congress-left-rally-in-west-bengal-fake-news-fact-check Short Notes:Elections Russia’s communications watchdog accused Twitter Inc. of violating Russian law by failing to delete banned content for the past several years Date:Mar 2, 2021 10:55 PM https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-leans-on-twitter-to-delete-content-11614620614 Short Notes: Alex Jones on Leaked Video: 'I Wish I Never Met Trump' | Southern Poverty Law Center Date:Mar 2, 2021 10:57 PM https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/03/02/alex-jones-leaked-video-i-wish-i-never-met-trump Short Notes: The Only Good Memes Left Are Those Made in Dreams Date:Mar 2, 2021 11:07 PM https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7mky3/the-only-good-memes-left-are-those-made-in-dreams Short Notes: The Value of Truth | Boston Review Date:Mar 3, 2021 8:07 AM http://bostonreview.net/philosophy-religion/michael-patrick-lynch-value-truth Short Notes:Narratives China’s TikTok Is Banning Users Who Brag About Their Wealth Date:Mar 3, 2021 8:15 AM http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1006912/chinas-tiktok-is-banning-users-who-brag-about-their-wealth Short Notes: India’s new intermediary liability and digital media regulations will harm the open internet Date:Mar 3, 2021 10:28 AM https://www.medianama.com/2021/03/223-rules-intermediaries-digital-media-harm-open-internet/ Short Notes: Farmers Protest Documentary | Singhu Border | Rajat Sain | Lallantop | Farm Bills | Delhi | India - YouTube RNS Farm Date:Mar 3, 2021 2:06 PM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2tN68Gkg5w Short Notes: Tackling Problematic Content Online At Scale-Sagar Kaul - BW Businessworld Date:Mar 3, 2021 2:15 PM https://www.businessworld.in/article/Tackling-Problematic-Content-Online-At-Scale/03-03-2021-382777/ Short Notes: How One Particular Coronavirus Myth Went Viral | WIRED [Great Game India - origin of COVID bioweapon] Date:Mar 3, 2021 2:22 PM https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-how-one-particular-coronavirus-myth-went-viral/ Short Notes:Did you know the origin of the Chinese virus narrative? All Tech is Human Series #9 - Misinformation & Free Expression with Jasmine McNealy & Claire Wardle (podcast) Date:Mar 3, 2021 2:44 PM https://radicalai.podbean.com/e/all-tech-is-human-series-9-misinformation-free-expression-with-jasmine-mcnealy-claire-wardle/ Short Notes: New tool to analyze fake news on social networks – Latest News, Breaking News, Top News Headlines Date:Mar 3, 2021 2:45 PM https://www.explica.co/new-tool-to-analyze-fake-news-on-social-networks/ Short Notes: ️🎧 The Growing Threat Of Disinformation And How To 'Deprogram' People Who Believe It - Consider This from NPR - Podcast Date:Mar 3, 2021 2:46 PM https://podcasts.podinstall.com/npr-consider-npr/202103022200-growing-threat-disinformation-and-how-deprogram-people-who-b.html Short Notes: West Bengal Elections 2021:  How Twitter Trends Are Being Used to Spread Fake News Date:Mar 3, 2021 2:48 PM https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/how-is-bjp-exploiting-twitter-trends-via-disinformation-in-bengal[[read]]-more Short Notes:Elections West Bengal Elections 2021:  How Twitter Trends Are Being Used to Spread Fake News Date:Mar 3, 2021 2:48 PM https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/how-is-bjp-exploiting-twitter-trends-via-disinformation-in-bengal[[read]]-more Short Notes: Govt. to intensify monitoring of coronavirus misinformation Date:Mar 3, 2021 2:49 PM http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210303000737 Short Notes: Govt. to intensify monitoring of coronavirus misinformation (ATW - Korea) Date:Mar 3, 2021 2:49 PM http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210303000737 Short Notes: Misinformation, skepticism hamper India's vaccine rollout | PBS NewsHour | NJ PBS Date:Mar 3, 2021 2:51 PM https://www.njtvonline.org/programs/pbs-newshour/pandemic-india-1614716702/ Short Notes: FSI - Election Integrity Partnership Releases Final Report on Mis- and Disinformation in 2020 U.S. Election Date:Mar 3, 2021 2:52 PM https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/election-integrity-partnership-releases-final-report-mis-and-disinformation-2020-us-election Short Notes: Disinformation: How Gender, Sex, and Lies are Weaponized Against Women Online? by Podcast Europejski EURACTIV.pl | Free Listening on SoundCloud (podcast) Date:Mar 3, 2021 2:52 PM https://soundcloud.com/podcast-europejski/disinformation-how-gender-sex-and-lies-are-weaponized-against-women-online Short Notes: Experts In Cult Deprogramming Step In To Help Believers In Conspiracy Theories : NPR Date:Mar 3, 2021 2:57 PM https://www.npr.org/2021/03/02/972970805/experts-in-cult-deprogramming-step-in-to-help-believers-in-conspiracy-theories Short Notes:narratives Lies, disinformation and conspiracy theories are increasingly being embraced as acceptable political strategy, AP investigation finds - MarketWatch Date:Mar 3, 2021 2:58 PM https://www.marketwatch.com/story/lies-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories-are-increasingly-being-embraced-as-acceptable-political-strategy-ap-investigation-finds-01614394986 Short Notes:narratives Misinformation plays an increasing role as state lawmakers push back against public health measures to curb coronavirus - MarketWatch Date:Mar 3, 2021 2:58 PM https://www.marketwatch.com/story/misinformation-plays-an-increasing-role-as-state-lawmakers-push-back-against-public-health-measures-to-curb-coronavirus-01614716312 Short Notes: Vaccine Passports, Covid’s Next Political Flash Point - The New York Times Date:Mar 3, 2021 3:01 PM https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/world/europe/passports-covid-vaccine.html Short Notes: India fake news problem fueled by digital illiteracy | Asia| An in-depth look at news from across the continent | DW | 02.03.2021 Date:Mar 3, 2021 3:05 PM https://www.dw.com/en/india-fake-news-problem-fueled-by-digital-illiteracy/a-56746776 Short Notes: How Logically Helps Governments Fight Misinformation (how will they decide which governments they work with and ensure their tools aren't misused? No one seems to have done it so far) Date:Mar 3, 2021 3:06 PM https://www.govtech.com/sponsored/How-Logically-Helps-Governments-Fight-Misinformation.html Short Notes: Disinformation experts aren’t happy about the trailer for HBO’s QAnon series - The Verge Date:Mar 3, 2021 3:19 PM https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/28/22304518/hbo-trailer-upcoming-qanon-movie-disinformation-researchers Short Notes: China dismisses reports that it caused a major power outage in Mumbai in October Date:Mar 3, 2021 3:23 PM https://www.livemint.com/news/world/china-dismisses-reports-that-it-caused-a-major-power-outage-in-mumbai-in-october-11614696687733.html Short Notes: One Year Onward: Platform Responses to COVID-19 and US Elections Disinformation in Review | EU DisinfoLab Date:Mar 3, 2021 3:31 PM https://www.disinfo.eu/publications/one-year-onward-platform-responses-to-covid-19-and-us-elections-disinformation-in-review Short Notes: Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression | Media Manipulation Casebook Date:Mar 3, 2021 3:34 PM https://mediamanipulation.org/research/submission-un-special-rapporteur-promotion-and-protection-right-freedom-opinion-and Short Notes: The information war eroding political reality in Brazil - Coda Story Date:Mar 3, 2021 3:39 PM https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/disinformation-brazil/ Short Notes: From influencers to investors, content creators are coming of age in India - The Economic Times Date:Mar 3, 2021 3:41 PM https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/startups/from-influencers-to-investors-content-creators-are-coming-of-age-in-india/articleshow/81295188.cms?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NewsDigest&utm_content=recommended&utm_term=1%20%20%20%20%20%20%20&ncode=fa23e75f868930e9833e4c8bc33e7e09b34b0d504928d81d9e8fc23d81c8103e1ba5596c43a6bf88afc5f474b2953e8a1a5cda1da822bf08cbbbfad540c13335f0f9c626bd4b8e713f7cefbbb6726f28 Short Notes: Polarising Narratives and Deepening Fault Lines: Social Media, Intolerance and Extremism in Four Asian Nations – GNET Date:Mar 3, 2021 4:43 PM https://gnet-research.org/2021/03/02/polarising-narratives-and-deepening-fault-lines-social-media-intolerance-and-extremism-in-four-asian-nations/ Short Notes: Regulation of news recommenders in the Digital Services Act: empowering David against the Very Large Online Goliath | Internet Policy Review Date:Mar 3, 2021 4:55 PM https://policyreview.info/articles/news/regulation-news-recommenders-digital-services-act-empowering-david-against-very-large Short Notes: PhD thesis: Subramanian Swamy raises objection, Govt asks for a copy, IIM-A pushes back | India News,The Indian Express Date:Mar 3, 2021 5:48 PM https://indianexpress.com/article/india/phd-thesis-subramanian-swamy-raises-objection-govt-asks-for-a-copy-iim-a-pushes-back-7211693/ Short Notes: The New Era of Social Media Isn’t About Feeds | by Will Oremus | Feb, 2021 | OneZero Date:Mar 3, 2021 5:50 PM https://onezero.medium.com/social-media-moves-beyond-the-feed-6aef3a2cb563 Short Notes: The Age of Mass Protests: Understanding an Escalating Global Trend | Center for Strategic and International Studies (farm protest) Date:Mar 3, 2021 5:52 PM https://www.csis.org/analysis/age-mass-protests-understanding-escalating-global-trend Short Notes: Opinion | A Better Way to Think About Conspiracies - The New York Times Date:Mar 3, 2021 6:01 PM https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/opinion/misinformation-conspiracy-theories.html Short Notes: Farmer Protests In India: Why Are They Angry? : Goats and Soda : NPR (RNS Farm) Date:Mar 3, 2021 6:23 PM https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/03/02/971293844/indias-farmer-protests-why-are-they-so-angry?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social Short Notes: Far-right news sources on Facebook more engaging | by Cybersecurity for Democracy | Cybersecurity for Democracy | Mar, 2021 | Medium Date:Mar 3, 2021 9:04 PM https://medium.com/cybersecurity-for-democracy/far-right-news-sources-on-facebook-more-engaging-e04a01efae90 Short Notes: Google says goodbye to individual user tracking - Axios (how will chrome fit in?) Date:Mar 3, 2021 9:07 PM https://www.axios.com/google-goodbye-individual-user-tracking-cookies-946c7549-e8a7-44fd-96d0-9e4994b9bba1.html?utm_campaign=organic&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=twitter Short Notes:Cookie State governments can't issue notices to media houses under new digital media rules: I&B Secy | MediaNama Date:Mar 3, 2021 9:17 PM https://www.medianama.com/2021/03/223-state-governments-cant-issue-notices-to-media-houses-under-new-digital-media-rules-ib-secy/ Short Notes: Infowars and QAnon content is getting around bans on the Apple and Google app stores | Media Matters for America (goes to show the limits of deplatforming) Date:Mar 3, 2021 9:28 PM https://www.mediamatters.org/google/infowars-and-qanon-content-getting-around-bans-apple-and-google-app-stores Short Notes: Coda Story on Twitter: "Platforms like Youtube and Twitch have tried to crack down on harassment of female and non-binary creators. But the toothless content moderation reforms don’t go far enough. @katia_patin has the story. https://t.co/LRIbsd5Fvx" / Twitter Date:Mar 4, 2021 8:18 AM https://twitter.com/CodaStory/status/1367189532051931136 Short Notes: Far-right Misinformation is Facebook's most engaging content - Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech Date:Mar 4, 2021 8:19 AM https://www.protocol.com/facebook-misinformation-far-right-politics Short Notes: Alan Rusbridger says Oversight Board will ask to see Facebook's algorithm | Facebook | The Guardian Date:Mar 4, 2021 8:21 AM https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/02/alan-rusbridger-says-oversight-board-will-ask-to-see-facebooks-algorithm?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Short Notes: "Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) Tweeted: Here's why the language of ""deprogramming"" probably isn't a good idea when it comes to the Q folks. They're just going to appropriate it as their own. This is what happened with ""fake news"" four years ago — it was weaponized by the very same people who it was meant to describe. https://t.co/ht0TS3u6sX Date:Mar 4, 2021 9:24 AM" https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1367156895539200007?s=20 Short Notes:narratives derad Trigger warning. The CCP’s coordinated information effort to discredit the BBC | Australian Strategic Policy Institute | ASPI (ban bbc, methods - similar to India) Date:Mar 4, 2021 2:32 PM https://www.aspi.org.au/report/trigger-warning Short Notes: How farmers protest against the 3 new laws have unfolded over the months | India News - Times of India (RNS Farm) Date:Mar 4, 2021 4:57 PM https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/how-farmers-protests-against-the-3-farm-laws-unfolded/articleshow/80648849.cms Short Notes: Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫 on Twitter: "Mainstream media is going to make this so much worse for all of us. Researchers must continue to push for accountability because some media outlets are just going to continue making spectacles for profit. Read @wphillips49: https://t.co/UdsOKSxEDk https://t.co/ThNoLPIXJI" / Twitter Date:Mar 4, 2021 7:51 PM https://twitter.com/BostonJoan/status/1367478759734001671 Short Notes: Paranoia about digital coverage led ministers to propose media clampdown, monitoring “negative influencers” Date:Mar 4, 2021 11:29 PM https://caravanmagazine.in/politics/paranoia-about-digital-coverage-led-gom-propose-media-clampdown-monitoring-negative-influencers Short Notes: A conversation with YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki - Atlantic Council Date:Mar 4, 2021 11:33 PM https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/youtubes-wojcicki/ Short Notes: Public and private powers must unite to combat disinformation campaigns, election security experts say | The Stanford Daily Date:Mar 4, 2021 11:34 PM https://www.stanforddaily.com/2021/03/03/public-and-private-powers-must-unite-to-combat-disinformation-campaigns-election-security-experts-say/ Short Notes: China's Communist party ran campaign to discredit BBC, thinktank finds | China | The Guardian Date:Mar 4, 2021 11:34 PM https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/04/chinas-communist-party-ran-campaign-to-discredit-bbc-thinktank-finds Short Notes: Journalists face record levels of persecution globally - Axios Date:Mar 4, 2021 11:36 PM https://www.axios.com/journalist-arrests-myanmar-ethiopia-fake-news-a598ccd7-618c-40d8-8ab4-0a9fb96c63ee.html Short Notes: Information Ministry clamps down on some 200 fake news cases in two months - Khmer Times Date:Mar 4, 2021 11:37 PM https://www.khmertimeskh.com/820516/information-ministry-clamps-down-on-some-200-fake-news-cases-in-two-months/ Short Notes: Auditing Big Tech: Combating Disinformation with Reliable Transparency Date:Mar 4, 2021 11:41 PM https://enabling-digital.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Auditing_big_tech_Final.pdf Short Notes: The social construction of facts in the era of post-truth | TheSpec.com (link to bostonreview post) Date:Mar 4, 2021 11:44 PM https://www.thespec.com/opinion/contributors/2021/03/03/the-social-construction-of-facts-in-the-era-of-post-truth.html Short Notes:Narratives / deradicalisation Greta Thunbergs comments not bilateral issue between India, Sweden: MEA RNS Farm Date:Mar 5, 2021 9:10 PM https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/greta-thunberg-s-comments-not-bilateral-issue-between-india-sweden-mea-121030501110_1.html Short Notes: Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea | Electronic Frontier Foundation Date:Mar 5, 2021 9:14 PM https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea Short Notes:Cookie How Google's 'Privacy Sandbox' Will Target Ads Without Singling Users Out | OneZero Date:Mar 5, 2021 10:08 PM https://onezero.medium.com/how-google-will-target-ads-without-singling-users-out-a83123d5c92c Short Notes:Cookie Stop Letting Google Get Away With It (cookie) Date:Mar 6, 2021 12:10 PM https://flip.it/CPVm8m Short Notes:Cookie Google’s ‘Privacy-First Web’ Is Really a Google-First Web | by Will Oremus | Mar, 2021 | OneZero Date:Mar 7, 2021 12:25 AM https://onezero.medium.com/googles-next-power-play-f296c2e3020e Short Notes:Cookie Fashion, books major draw for Indian women on Twitter - The Hindu Date:Mar 7, 2021 7:30 AM https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/fashion-books-major-draw-for-indian-women-on-twitter/article34000238.ece Short Notes: Here is what WhatsApp head Will Cathcart said on India’s new IT rules Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:17 PM https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/here-is-what-whatsapp-head-will-cathcart-said-on-india-s-new-it-rules-71615098058488.html Short Notes: Internet attracting more youngsters to exercise mandate:: PTR Thiagarajan- The New Indian Express (unlike in the North?) Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:18 PM https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-nadu/2021/mar/07/internet-attracting-more-youngsters-to-exercise-mandate-ptr-thiagarajan-2273313.html Short Notes: An Annotated Reading Guide to the Modi Government’s Tool-Kit for Managing the Media Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:19 PM https://thewire.in/media/an-annotated-guide-to-the-modi-governments-tool-kit-for-managing-the-media Short Notes: 67 media houses restrained from publishing defamatory news against six Karnataka minsters Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:23 PM https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/67-media-houses-restrained-from-publishing-defamatory-news-against-six-karnataka-minsters Short Notes: K'taka mulling over new law to prevent political conspiracies: Minister - IBTimes India Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:24 PM https://www.ibtimes.co.in/ktaka-mulling-over-new-law-prevent-political-conspiracies-minister-833925 Short Notes:State responses Approached court for injunction to prevent hit-and-run smear campaign: K''taka Ministers Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:30 PM https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/approached-court-for-injunction-to-prevent-hitandrun-smear-campaign-ktaka-ministers/2041730 Short Notes:Statre resp Here's Three Key Ways to Fight Online Disinformation | Time Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:34 PM https://time.com/5944432/how-to-fight-disinformation-online/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Ftopstories+%28TIME%3A+Top+Stories%29 Short Notes: Here's Three Key Ways to Fight Online Disinformation | Time Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:34 PM https://time.com/5944432/how-to-fight-disinformation-online/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Ftopstories+%28TIME%3A+Top+Stories%29 Short Notes: YouTube removes five Myanmar TV channels from platform Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:34 PM https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/youtube-removes-five-myanmar-tv-channels-from-platform-71615030964727.html Short Notes: Delhi Police uses social media for public outreach, follows four-pronged strategy to bust 'fake news' Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:35 PM https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/delhi-police-uses-social-media-for-public-outreach-follows-four-pronged-strategy-to-bust-fake-news20210306131100/ Short Notes:Fact-check, AP, MP, state responses Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan launches fact check website to nip fake news in bud Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:36 PM https://newsd.in/andhra-pradesh-cm-jagan-launches-fact-check-website-to-nip-fake-news-in-bud/ Short Notes:Fact-check (also MP) Norms absent, bots make merry online- The New Indian Express Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:39 PM https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2021/mar/06/norms-absent-bots-make-merry-online-2272890.html Short Notes: Unpacking Political Extremism | WVTF - how to de-radicalise? Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:41 PM https://www.wvtf.org/post/unpacking-political-extremism#stream/0 Short Notes:Deradicalise and Narratives Scores of women from Punjab march to Delhi to mark 100 days of protest | Hindustan Times (RNS Farm) Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:42 PM https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/delhi-news/scores-of-women-from-punjab-march-to-delhi-to-mark-100-days-of-protest-international-women-s-day-101614967019261.html Short Notes: Fighting disinformation with facts, movies and social media | Hindustan Times (MDM and RNS Farm) Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:42 PM https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/others/fighting-disinformation-with-facts-movies-and-social-media-101614966903485.html Short Notes: ‘Neutralise those writing against us’: Inside the govt’s plan to manage media perception Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:44 PM https://www.medianama.com/2021/03/223-inside-govts-plan-to-manage-media-perception/ Short Notes:IT Rules Creating a sustainable, legitimate digital regulatory regime | Hindustan Times Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:46 PM https://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion Short Notes:IT Rules Online News Media and Other Content: Big Leap Towards Censorship | NewsClick Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:51 PM https://www.newsclick.in/online-news-media-other-content-big-leap-towards-censorship Short Notes:IT Rules Colour-Code Some, ‘Nurture’ Others: Government Plans to Set Media Narrative 'Using' Journalists | NewsClick Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:53 PM https://www.newsclick.in/colour-code-nutue-government-plans-media-narrative-journalists Short Notes:IT Rules New IT Rules May Have Been Part of Govt Roadmap on Communication, Shows Report Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:54 PM https://www.thequint.com/news/india/group-of-ministers-report-on-communication-digital-media-rules[[read]]-more Short Notes:IT Rules Shopian school case: ‘The Kashmir Walla’ moves Jammu and Kashmir HC against Army FIR Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:56 PM https://scroll.in/latest/988588/kashmir-walla-moves-hc-against-fir-for-story-claiming-army-forced-school-to-celebrate-republic-day Short Notes: 'I will shoot whoever I see': Myanmar soldiers use TikTok to threaten protesters | Hindustan Times Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:58 PM https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/i-will-shoot-whoever-i-see-myanmar-soldiers-use-tiktok-to-threaten-protesters-101614854431271-amp.html Short Notes:TikTok Myanmar SC asks Centre to submit regulations for OTT platforms; stresses on screening of content Date:Mar 7, 2021 5:58 PM https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/general-news/sc-asks-centre-to-submit-regulations-for-ott-platforms-stresses-on-screening-of-content.html Short Notes:IT Rules - not enough as per SC The media plays a crucial role in battling vaccine misinformation. But here’s what not to do. - The Washington Post Date:Mar 7, 2021 6:02 PM https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/vaccine-misinformation-media/2021/03/05/fd01a0ba-7dbd-11eb-a976-c028a4215c78_story.html Short Notes:Vaxxing and Warning New IDC Government Insights Report Dissects Propaganda as a Service Date:Mar 7, 2021 6:06 PM https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS47496021 Short Notes: In France, there's no escape from Covid vaccine sceptics. What would Pasteur think? | France | The Guardian Date:Mar 7, 2021 6:07 PM https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/07/in-france-theres-no-escape-from-covid-vaccine-sceptics-what-would-pasteur-think Short Notes:Vaxxing and Warning Those skeptical of social media are better at identifying information on such sites: Study - The Hindu BusinessLine Date:Mar 7, 2021 6:11 PM https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/those-skeptical-of-social-media-are-better-at-identifying-information-on-such-sites-study/article34011225.ece Short Notes: Farm bills: First principles and the political economy of agricultural market regulation - RNS farm Date:Mar 7, 2021 6:12 PM https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/agriculture/farm-bills-first-principles-and-the-political-economy-of-agricultural-market-regulation.html Short Notes: Modi govt can bring real agriculture reforms only by working with states - RNS farm Date:Mar 7, 2021 6:12 PM https://theprint.in/opinion/modi-govt-agriculture-reform-farm-bills-ordinances-bypass-states-apmc/506004/ Short Notes: On farm laws, how the Centre faltered | Hindustan Times - RNS Farm Date:Mar 7, 2021 6:13 PM https://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/on-farm-laws-how-the-centre-faltered/story-44IpmLCZ2Pz0PFKnYOJgfJ.html Short Notes: Atoms to bits: protest and politics in Internet India – тема научной статьи по СМИ (медиа) и массовым коммуникациям читайте бесплатно текст научно-исследовательской работы в электронной библиотеке КиберЛенинка - RNS farm Date:Mar 7, 2021 6:14 PM https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/atoms-to-bits-protest-and-politics-in-internet-india Short Notes: Expanding digital controls narrow space for news, OTTs- The New Indian Express Date:Mar 7, 2021 6:33 PM https://www.newindianexpress.com/business/2021/mar/07/expanding-digital-controls-narrow-space-for-news-otts-2273247.html Short Notes:IT RUles India has ended its experiment with dual citizenship with new OCI notification (combine with Gurbir Singh TNIE oped) Date:Mar 7, 2021 6:37 PM https://scroll.in/global/988721/with-new-oci-notification-india-has-ended-its-experiment-with-dual-citizenship Short Notes: Examining algorithmic biases in YouTube’s recommendations of vaccine videos - ScienceDirect Date:Mar 7, 2021 6:39 PM https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1386505619308743?via%3Dihub Short Notes: Ahmadiyya Press USA on Twitter: "PRESS RELEASE: "Trolls in Pakistan Exploit @YouTube in Massive Cyber Disinformation Campaign. Over 1,000 videos uploaded within 48 hours against the vulnerable Ahmadiyya Muslim Community." [[pakistan]] https://t.co/9D9sVmRqVW" / Twitter Date:Mar 7, 2021 6:42 PM https://twitter.com/AhmadiyyaUSA/status/1356289920957116416 Short Notes: Right-wingers rush online to find common cause and comrades - Independent.ie (deradicalisation) Date:Mar 7, 2021 6:43 PM https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/right-wingers-rush-online-to-find-common-cause-and-comrades-40167194.html Short Notes:Essay. Link to narratives? Cross-Media Alliances to Stop Disinformation: A Real Solution? | Palomo | Media and Communication Date:Mar 7, 2021 6:44 PM https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3535/3535 Short Notes: Disinformation a national security issue for Turkey, Altun says | Daily Sabah Date:Mar 7, 2021 6:48 PM https://www.dailysabah.com/politics/disinformation-a-national-security-issue-for-turkey-altun-says/news Short Notes: Rudy Giuliani Criticised For Podcast Warning About The ‘Consequences Of Misinformation’ - UNILAD Date:Mar 7, 2021 7:11 PM https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/us-news/rudy-giuliani-criticised-for-podcast-warning-about-the-consequences-of-misinformation/ Short Notes: Facebook Clamps Down on QAnon-Linked Sabmyk Network of Disinformation Date:Mar 7, 2021 7:13 PM https://www.newsweek.com/facebook-clamps-down-qanon-sabmyk-network-disinformation-1574233 Short Notes: India Threatens Jail for Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter Employees - WSJ Date:Mar 8, 2021 11:58 AM https://www.wsj.com/articles/india-threatens-jail-for-facebook-whatsapp-and-twitter-employees-11614964542 Short Notes:India has denied this Tractor2Twitter: Team says reach is now 100 lakh accounts | Chandigarh News - Times of India (RNS Farm) Date:Mar 8, 2021 2:52 PM https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/tractor2twitter-team-says-reach-is-now-100-lakh-accounts/articleshow/80128996.cms Short Notes: Abortive bid to stop farmers’ ‘Trolley Times’ (RNS Farm) Date:Mar 8, 2021 2:54 PM https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/abortive-bid-to-stop-farmers-trolley-times Short Notes: Trolley Times: The Country’s Fastest-Growing Newspaper (RNS Farm) Date:Mar 8, 2021 2:56 PM https://www.bloombergquint.com/opinion/trolley-times-the-countrys-fastest-growing-newspaper Short Notes: How farmers at Delhi borders worked their way around internet shutdowns | Hindustan Times (RNS Farm) Date:Mar 8, 2021 3:02 PM https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/how-farmers-at-delhi-borders-worked-their-way-around-internet-shutdowns-101612733714659.html Short Notes: Kisan Ekta Morcha: How Farmers Set Up Their Own IT Cell to Counter Hate & Fake News (rns farm) Date:Mar 8, 2021 3:10 PM https://www.thequint.com/cyber/kisan-ekta-morcha-how-protesting-farmers-created-their-own-it-cell-hate-fake-news Short Notes: Ban dating app for extra-marital affairs survey, says Sena MLC - The Economic Times Date:Mar 8, 2021 6:22 PM https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/ban-dating-app-for-extra-marital-affairs-survey-says-sena-mlc/articleshow/81393230.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst Short Notes:Bandemic 87 American farmer groups back protests in India : The Tribune India (RNS farm) Date:Mar 8, 2021 6:37 PM https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/87-american-farmer-groups-back-protests-in-india-215258 Short Notes: Prateek Waghre on Twitter: "Uh oh! This can/will go sideways 2... https://t.co/ecDjHdUpJn" / Twitter Date:Mar 8, 2021 8:16 PM https://twitter.com/prateekwaghre/status/1368935647214399493 Short Notes: How Line built fact-checking into its encrypted messaging app - Rest of World Date:Mar 8, 2021 8:31 PM https://restofworld.org/2021/how-line-is-fighting-disinformation-without-sacrificing-privacy/ Short Notes: We’ve Reached the Deepfake Tipping Point | by Lance Ulanoff | Mar, 2021 | Medium Date:Mar 8, 2021 10:14 PM https://medium.com/@LanceUlanoff/weve-reached-the-deepfake-tipping-point-a33b13c7eb4c Short Notes:Fakes, lies and Video Deepfakes "Camille François (@camillefrancois) Tweeted: A few folks have asked what I covered in this intro to attributing information operations. Threaded below is a high level recap of the structure of our discussion. Planning to share full details in a writeup, as some of the details and examples matter here. Date:Mar 8, 2021 10:41 PM" https://twitter.com/camillefrancois/status/1368963021440221185?s=20 Short Notes: Twitter’s Birdwatch Aims to Crowdsource Fact-Checking - The Atlantic Date:Mar 9, 2021 6:35 AM https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/03/twitters-birdwatch-aims-to-crowdsource-fact-checking/618187/ Short Notes: People are worse at detecting fake news in their foreign language Date:Mar 9, 2021 6:52 AM Short Notes: Assessing the relative merits of news literacy and corrections in responding to misinformation on Twitter - Emily Vraga, Melissa Tully, Leticia Bode, 2021 Date:Mar 9, 2021 6:54 AM https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444821998691 Short Notes: Free but fake speech: when giving primacy to the source decreases misinformation sharing on social media - Portsmouth Research Portal Date:Mar 9, 2021 6:57 AM https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/free-but-fake-speech-when-giving-primacy-to-the-source-decreases-misinformation-sharing-on-social-media(20bf4611-07af-43fe-8096-c874d3abcb81).html Short Notes: Is Substack the panacea local news is looking for? - Poynter combine with Sarah Roberts thread about substack Date:Mar 9, 2021 8:24 AM https://www.poynter.org/locally/2021/is-substack-the-panacea-local-news-is-looking-for/ Short Notes: Farmers protest: 50 million subscribers hit by internet shutdown in NCR - India News (rns farm) Date:Mar 9, 2021 10:40 AM https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/farmers-protest-50-million-subscribers-hit-by-internet-shutdown-in-ncr-1763019-2021-01-27 Short Notes: Farmers’ protest: Haryana Police dig trenches to block the path of protesters | Hindustan Times (RNS Farm) Date:Mar 9, 2021 10:46 AM https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/farmers-protest-haryana-police-dig-trenches-to-block-the-path-of-protesters/story-5OnmKPQNwX92KPvENiOGzK.html Short Notes: Delhi govt asks DTC to return buses used by Police for ongoing farmers protest (RNS Farm) Date:Mar 9, 2021 10:49 AM https://theprint.in/india/governance/delhi-govt-asks-dtc-to-return-buses-used-by-police-for-ongoing-farmers-protest/598545/ Short Notes: Barricades gone at ITO but police deployment continues at the busy junction | Hindustan Times (RNS Farm) Date:Mar 9, 2021 10:55 AM https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/delhi-news/barricades-gone-at-ito-but-police-deployment-continues-at-the-busy-junction-101611789266405.html Short Notes: Barricades gone at ITO but police deployment continues at the busy junction | Hindustan Times (RNS Farm) Date:Mar 9, 2021 10:55 AM https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/delhi-news/barricades-gone-at-ito-but-police-deployment-continues-at-the-busy-junction-101611789266405.html Short Notes: AIKSCC evicts convenor, who is willing to hold separate talks with Centre - The Hindu (RNS Farm) - spllinter Date:Mar 9, 2021 11:28 AM https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/aikscc-evicts-convenor-who-is-willing-to-hold-separate-talks-with-centre/article33327528.ece Short Notes: Nearly 40,000 women on way to Delhi from Punjab, Haryana to lead farm protest on Women's Day  - India News (RNS Farm) Date:Mar 9, 2021 12:12 PM https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/farm-protest-women-protesters-delhi-borders-womens-day-1776696-2021-03-07 Short Notes: Bhartiya Kisan Union to oppose BJP in Gujarat, HP elections (RNS Farm) Date:Mar 9, 2021 12:14 PM http://www.uniindia.com/bhartiya-kisan-union-to-oppose-bjp-in-gujarat-hp-elections/india/news/1040001.html Short Notes: Claim About 122 Muslims Acquitted After 20 Years In Prison Is Misleading (both sides disinfo) Date:Mar 9, 2021 3:28 PM https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/fact-check-122-muslim-men-spend-20-years-in-prison-for-crime-never-committed-gujarat-high-court-judiciary-fake-news-12258 Short Notes: What's the deal with Uttar Pradesh Police's plan to monitor online porn usage? Date:Mar 9, 2021 3:30 PM https://www.logically.ai/articles/up-police-porn-monitoring Short Notes: How corporatisation ate up America’s small farms - Times of India (RNS Farm) Date:Mar 9, 2021 4:18 PM https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/how-corporatisation-ate-up-americas-small-farms/articleshow/81376340.cms Short Notes: PIB Fact Check on Twitter: "NDTV has reported that there is a shortage of #COVID19 Vaccine doses in Rajasthan. #PIBFactCheck: This claim is #Fake. There is no shortage of COVID-19 vaccine doses in Rajasthan at present. Read Here: https://t.co/Jl7ToRdoon https://t.co/jNA7wloSp6" / Twitter Date:Mar 9, 2021 8:16 PM https://mobile.twitter.com/pibfactcheck/status/1369208482918895617 Short Notes: ⚡️ Dr. Pinkeee 🎶 on Twitter: "In today's "big tech pretend to care about our privacy but continue to spy and trade us", Google comes with a blog filled with inaccuracies about how they are moving "towards a more privacy-first web". Let's unpack the bluff -> 1/6 https://t.co/lBpZuWMqHd" / Twitter Date:Mar 10, 2021 12:35 PM https://twitter.com/elinor_carmi/status/1367192020629008384 Short Notes:Cookie GoM report on media control shows government’s draconian attitude: Editors- The New Indian Express Date:Mar 10, 2021 1:10 PM https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2021/mar/10/gom-report-on-media-control-shows-governments-draconian-attitude-editors-2274598.html Short Notes: File on 4 - The Disinformation Dragon - BBC Sounds Date:Mar 10, 2021 3:59 PM https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000sz30 Short Notes: The Dangers of the All-Encompassing Narrative – Discourse Date:Mar 10, 2021 4:31 PM https://www.discoursemagazine.com/culture-and-society/2021/03/01/the-dangers-of-the-all-encompassing-narrative/ Short Notes:Ess. Narratives Election Special: Will Mamata Meet Her Match in West Bengal? Date:Mar 10, 2021 4:45 PM https://www.logically.ai/articles/election-mamata-meet-her-match-in-west-bengal Short Notes:Elections Delhi HC Issues Notice To Center For Newly Imposed IT Rules On Digital News - Culture Date:Mar 10, 2021 4:53 PM https://in.mashable.com/culture/20793/delhi-hc-issues-notice-to-center-for-newly-imposed-it-rules-on-digital-news Short Notes:`IT Rules Why are you blocking info: SC panel to KRRS chief- The New Indian Express Date:Mar 10, 2021 4:56 PM https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2021/mar/10/why-are-you-blocking-info-sc-panel-to-krrs-chief-2274526.html Short Notes: Instagram’s algorithm pushes users towards COVID-19 misinformation, study finds Date:Mar 10, 2021 4:57 PM https://thenextweb.com/neural/2021/03/09/instagram-algorithm-recommends-covid-19-misinformation-vaccines-conspiracy-theories-antisemitism/ Short Notes:Vaxxinf and Warning Fake Glassdoor Posts by U.K. Executive Claimed in Suit by Rival Date:Mar 10, 2021 4:59 PM https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/fake-glassdoor-posts-by-u-k-executive-claimed-in-suit-by-rival Short Notes: Germany is main target of Russian disinformation, EU says Date:Mar 10, 2021 5:00 PM https://in.finance.yahoo.com/finance/news/germany-main-target-russian-disinformation-125751640.html Short Notes: Coronavirus Vaccine: How Anti-Vaxxers Are Spreading Panic Date:Mar 10, 2021 5:04 PM https://www.boomlive.in/coronavirus-outbreak/tarun-kothari-biswaroop-chaudhary-covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-misinformation-12264 Short Notes:Vaxxing and Warning Study finds that misleading people are often easily misled by others Date:Mar 10, 2021 5:05 PM https://www.aninews.in/news/lifestyle/quirky/study-finds-that-misleading-people-are-often-easily-misled-by-others20210309193955/ Short Notes: Claim About 122 Muslims Acquitted After 20 Years In Prison Is Misleading Date:Mar 10, 2021 5:08 PM https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/fact-check-122-muslim-men-spend-20-years-in-prison-for-crime-never-committed-gujarat-high-court-judiciary-fake-news-12258 Short Notes:Disinformation across the spectrum? U.S. says Russian-backed outlets spread COVID-19 vaccine 'disinformation' | Reuters Date:Mar 10, 2021 5:14 PM https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-covid-disinformation-idUSKBN2B0016 Short Notes: Fifth of men think media reports about gender pay gap are 'fake news' | Reuters Date:Mar 10, 2021 5:16 PM https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-global-women-trfn/fifth-of-men-think-media-reports-about-gender-pay-gap-are-fake-news-idUSKBN2B029M Short Notes: Global Institute for Women's Leadership on Twitter: "NEW: Britons are among those least likely to prioritise tackling the gender pay gap right now, as society rebuilds from the Covid-19 pandemic. Our latest global study with @IpsosMORI to mark #IWD2021 https://t.co/pqZZ5MFQF2" / Twitter Date:Mar 10, 2021 5:17 PM https://twitter.com/GIWLkings/status/1368839086199439360 Short Notes: Global Institute for Women's Leadership on Twitter: "And one in 10 Britons (10%) say they think reports about the gender pay gap in the media are fake news – compared with 44% who think such reports are telling the truth https://t.co/PTt3LktxrV" / Twitter Date:Mar 10, 2021 5:19 PM https://twitter.com/GIWLkings/status/1368839102922170369 Short Notes: PR Dept launches portal to check fake news (bhopal) Date:Mar 10, 2021 5:24 PM https://www.dailypioneer.com/2021/state-editions/pr-dept-launches-portal-to-check-fake-news.html?utm_source=nyoooz&utm_medium=post Short Notes: Mozilla Foundation - Misinformation in the 2020 US Elections: A Timeline of Platform Changes (1 of 3) Date:Mar 10, 2021 5:26 PM https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/misinformation-in-the-2020-us-elections-a-timeline-of-platform-changes/ Short Notes: Mozilla Foundation - Transparency of Policy Enforcement (2 of 3) Date:Mar 10, 2021 5:26 PM https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/transparency-of-policy-enforcement/ Short Notes: Mozilla Foundation - Election Misinformation: Recommendations for the Road Ahead (3 of 3) Date:Mar 10, 2021 5:26 PM https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/election-misinformation-recommendations-for-the-road-ahead/ Short Notes: Glaring Intimidation Tactics in Nitish Govt's FIR Against Scribes Over Tweets on 'Paper Leak' Date:Mar 10, 2021 5:28 PM https://thewire.in/media/nitish-kumar-bihar-education-fir-journalists-exam-paper-leak-utkarsh-singh Short Notes: Journalists in Kashmir are detained in ‘casual manner’ for reporting: Editors Guild expresses shock Date:Mar 10, 2021 5:29 PM https://scroll.in/latest/988955/shocked-by-casual-manner-in-which-kashmiri-journalists-are-routinely-detained-says-editors-guild Short Notes: LAWS AGAINST FAKE NEWS (Lok Sabha) Date:Mar 10, 2021 5:34 PM http://164.100.24.220/loksabhaquestions/annex/175/AU2543.pdf Short Notes: FAKE AND MANIPULATED NEWS (Lok Sabha Question) Date:Mar 10, 2021 5:35 PM http://164.100.24.220/loksabhaquestions/annex/175/AU2705.pdf Short Notes: FAKE NEWS AND OBJECTIONABLE PHOTOS / VIDEOS (Lok Sabha Question) Date:Mar 10, 2021 5:36 PM http://164.100.24.220/loksabhaquestions/annex/175/AU2728.pdf Short Notes: IT Rules 2021: How online news and current affairs commentators will be impacted Date:Mar 10, 2021 5:55 PM https://www.medianama.com/2021/03/223-social-media-companies-news-current-affairs-it-rules/ Short Notes:IT Rules Tackling the “Fake” Without Harming the “News” Date:Mar 10, 2021 6:07 PM https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/area/center/isp/documents/yalelawschool_whitepaper_misinformation_v3.pdf Short Notes:Ess? MWI? Far-right news sources on Facebook more engaging | by Cybersecurity for Democracy | Cybersecurity for Democracy | Mar, 2021 | Medium Date:Mar 10, 2021 6:17 PM https://medium.com/cybersecurity-for-democracy/far-right-news-sources-on-facebook-more-engaging-e04a01efae90 Short Notes:Ess. Possible link to bosonreview post Graphika on Twitter: ""Intentional manipulation of internet signals has been part of internet life forever. Manipulation is just as much of a commercial problem as a geopolitical problem." @Graphika_NYC CEO @apidictionist on the problem of #disinformation for businesses @FastCompany #FCMostInnovative" / Twitter Date:Mar 10, 2021 6:21 PM https://twitter.com/Graphika_NYC/status/1369355216961769472 Short Notes: COVID-19 disinformation and political engagement among communities of color: The role of media literacy | HKS Misinformation Review Date:Mar 10, 2021 6:27 PM https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/covid-19-disinformation-and-political-engagement-among-communities-of-color-the-role-of-media-literacy/ Short Notes: The State of COVID misinformation in India Final V3.pdf Date:Mar 10, 2021 6:29 PM https://f.hubspotusercontent20.net/hubfs/7666878/The%20State%20of%20COVID%20misinformation%20in%20India%20Final%20V3.pdf?hsCtaTracking=f5d70eb4-b6a7-4c13-9816-2f1d4af0d4f5%7Cc9703e8d-f4f6-44d3-bcc2-232187ff91a8 Short Notes: Intermediary, Social Media Guidelines Challenged In Courts By Digital News Portals Date:Mar 10, 2021 10:22 PM https://www.bloombergquint.com/law-and-policy/intermediary-and-social-media-guidelines-challenged-in-courts-by-digital-news-portals Short Notes:IT Rules Doug Madory on Twitter: "Today's outages in Russia appears to have been caused by a bad substring match by @roscomnadzor. Intending to block Twitter's link shortener t[.]co, Russia blocked all domains containing t[.]co, for example Microsoft[.]com and Reddit[.]com. (H/T @GregoryKhodyrev)" / Twitter Date:Mar 10, 2021 10:23 PM https://twitter.com/DougMadory/status/1369665894494900224 Short Notes:ATW Google’s plan to stop using tracking cookies will not be the end of invasive targeted advertising Date:Mar 10, 2021 10:26 PM https://scroll.in/article/989062/googles-plan-to-stop-using-tracking-cookies-will-not-be-the-end-of-invasive-targeted-advertising Short Notes: Comparing the Online Posting Behaviours of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists – GNET Date:Mar 11, 2021 8:26 AM https://gnet-research.org/2021/03/10/comparing-the-online-posting-behaviours-of-violent-and-non-violent-right-wing-extremists/ Short Notes:Studies Regulating News Publishers and Intermediary Rules - Suno India (podcast) Date:Mar 11, 2021 12:11 PM https://www.sunoindia.in/the-suno-india-show/regulating-news-publishers-and-intermediary-rules/ Short Notes:IT Rules Profit for Propaganda: Twitter Still Complicit in Whitewashing the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi - DAWN Date:Mar 12, 2021 1:05 AM https://dawnmena.org/profit-for-propaganda-twitter-still-complicit-in-whitewashing-the-murder-of-jamal-khashoggi/ Short Notes:See Hyp. Esp bit about political content faq The Insidious Creep Of Violent Rhetoric - Susan Benesch Date:Mar 12, 2021 8:56 PM https://www.noemamag.com/the-insidious-creep-of-violent-rhetoric/ Short Notes:Ess Maharashtra Cyber Says More Than 7,000 Posts Flagged as Fake News, Hate Speech Since March 2020 [compare with tweets for a particular trend] - goes to show how difficult the problem of addressing this through fake posts/accounts is. Date:Mar 12, 2021 9:01 PM https://www.mumbailive.com/en/crime/maharashtra-cyber-says-more-than-7000-posts-flagged-as-fake-news-62588 Short Notes:MWI Defying rules, anti-vaccine accounts continue to spread misinformation on social media | Hindustan Times Date:Mar 12, 2021 9:03 PM https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/defying-rules-anti-vaccine-accounts-continue-to-spread-misinformation-on-social-media-101615536253060.html Short Notes:Vaxxing and Warning Official Google India Blog: Helping people find credible information as India gets into vaccination overdrive Date:Mar 12, 2021 9:06 PM https://india.googleblog.com/2021/03/helping-people-find-credible.html Short Notes:MWI EVM hacking allegations: EC warns of action against fake news- The New Indian Express Date:Mar 12, 2021 9:09 PM https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2021/mar/12/evm-hacking-allegations-ec-warns-ofaction-against-fake-news-2275538.html Short Notes:MWI 7k fake news, malicious rumours flagged by Maharashtra Cyber, but only 31% taken down by apps | Mumbai News - Times of India Date:Mar 12, 2021 9:11 PM https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/7k-offensive-posts-flagged-but-only-31-taken-down-in-mumbai/articleshow/81456575.cms Short Notes:MWI YouTube has pulled 30,000 videos for making false claims about COVID-19 vaccines | Engadget Date:Mar 12, 2021 9:12 PM https://www.engadget.com/youtube-pulled-30000-videos-coronavirus-vaccine-misinformation-210055827.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlbmV3c25vdy5saXZlL3lvdXR1YmUtaGFzLXB1bGxlZC0zMDAwMC12aWRlb3MtZm9yLW1ha2luZy1mYWxzZS1jbGFpbXMtYWJvdXQtY292aWQtMTktdmFjY2luZXMtZW5nYWRnZXQv&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALmyXf5HagniWpLb91b0Y-q2byoAZ6B_zKkWdqvaGjRMVE_N05QjPBgzmK040XVuuzHifdAH3lD78T4Gi1S_oSkpnxbyPOwWPeSpmTp5XO2PlPMucp8PWH53RLoq8UGQ3143ZMW4wQ_xtKeGJHJCTqromODuFX8Lz9dyabCDVyCg Short Notes: Malaysia stokes free speech fears with misinformation law Date:Mar 12, 2021 9:14 PM https://wetheworldmagazine.com/news/world/malaysia-stokes-free-speech-fears-with-new-misinformation/cid2424153.htm Short Notes:ATW Following PCI, NBSA norms, ensure new rules don't lead to compliance burden: Top news providers urge Javadekar - India News Date:Mar 12, 2021 9:14 PM https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/following-pci-nbsa-norms-ensure-new-rules-don-t-lead-to-compliance-burden-top-news-providers-urge-javadekar-1778308-2021-03-11 Short Notes:IT Rules OTT platforms 'welcomed' new digital guidelines, says Javadekar | Hindustan Times Date:Mar 12, 2021 9:15 PM https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/ott-platforms-welcomed-new-digital-guidelines-says-javadekar-101615470434024.html Short Notes:IT Rules Run info campaign so viewers know digital media rules, make informed choice: Panel of MPs Date:Mar 12, 2021 9:19 PM https://theprint.in/india/run-info-campaign-so-viewers-know-digital-media-rules-make-informed-choice-panel-of-mps/619476/ Short Notes:MWI Subramanya Swamy to file defamation case against Telugu daily Date:Mar 12, 2021 9:22 PM http://www.uniindia.com/subramanya-swamy-to-file-defamation-case-against-telugu-daily/south/news/2340349.html Short Notes:MWI evelyn douek on Twitter: "My contrarian take here is that Amazon SHOULD be held more accountable for decisions like this. Amazon does content moderation. You just wouldn't know it from the lack of transparency, sparse guidelines, garbage on its site and thin media coverage. https://t.co/f5s313jIgf" / Twitter Date:Mar 12, 2021 11:53 PM https://twitter.com/evelyndouek/status/1370383183750045700 Short Notes:Link to Buzzfeed story How right-wing disinformation and conspiracy theories tore one family apart - Washington Post (language of brainwashing) Date:Mar 13, 2021 12:01 AM https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/disinformation-conspiracy-family/ Short Notes:ATW ACCC watching the clock tick as Facebook lags Google in striking news media deals | ZDNet Date:Mar 13, 2021 12:05 AM https://www.zdnet.com/article/accc-watching-the-clock-tick-as-facebook-lags-google-in-striking-news-media-deals/ Short Notes:ATW Assam 2021: Twitter suspends two accounts for fake news on Ajmal Date:Mar 13, 2021 12:06 AM https://www.eastmojo.com/assam/2021/03/12/assam-2021-twitter-suspends-two-accounts-for-fake-news-on-ajmal/ Short Notes:MWI Our Era’s Defining Battle: Facts vs. Misinformation Date:Mar 13, 2021 12:08 AM https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/03/11/fact-check-trump-biden-misinformation-475414 Short Notes: What should we do about the algorithmic amplification of disinformation? - Columbia Journalism Review Date:Mar 13, 2021 12:09 AM https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/what-should-we-do-about-the-algorithmic-amplification-of-disinformation.php Short Notes:See Hyp Three Lessons from the Past 365 Days of Online Misinformation - Inkstick Date:Mar 13, 2021 12:12 AM https://inkstickmedia.com/three-lessons-from-the-past-365-days-of-online-misinformation/ Short Notes: Go read this story on how Facebook’s focus on growth stopped its AI team from fighting misinformation - The Verge Date:Mar 13, 2021 12:16 AM https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/11/22325355/facebook-growth-ai-go-read-this-ethics-misinformation-bias Short Notes: How a racialized disinformation campaign ties itself to The 1619 Project - Columbia Journalism Review Date:Mar 13, 2021 12:18 AM https://www.cjr.org/opinion/1776-keyword-squatting-right-wing-media.php Short Notes: Vanita Gupta’s tweets aren’t even mean. The GOP is still attacking her for them. - The Washington Post Date:Mar 13, 2021 7:27 AM https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/03/12/vanita-gupta-twitter-gop-colin-kahl/ Short Notes: Center for countering disinformation to start working in coming days – Yermak Date:Mar 13, 2021 11:02 PM https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3206265-center-for-countering-disinformation-to-start-working-in-coming-days-yermak.html Short Notes:ATW Lekhashree Demands Action Against Facebook Page For Circulating Fake News | OTV News Date:Mar 13, 2021 11:11 PM https://odishatv.in/odisha-news/lekhashree-demands-action-against-facebook-page-for-circulating-fake-news-526058 Short Notes:MWI Backstory:  From ‘Partly Unfree’ to ‘Fully Unfree’? The New IT Rules Could Hasten the Slide Date:Mar 13, 2021 11:14 PM https://thewire.in/media/backstory-india-democracy-new-it-rules Short Notes:MWI Kate Starbird on Twitter: "Repeatedly, and across contexts, researchers are finding that a small number of dedicated disinformers are doing a significant amount of damage to the health of discourse, democracy, and society at large." / Twitter Date:Mar 15, 2021 12:13 PM https://twitter.com/katestarbird/status/1371329286855032832 Short Notes: joyojeet pal on Twitter: "Piece on custodial deaths in Kerala, 6th nationwide Our piece last year showed Kerala Police had won hearts through Facebook memes Tech allows amenable brands aimed at middle classes reserving reality for those who actually deal with these institutions https://t.co/IsXNyrFLln" / Twitter Date:Mar 16, 2021 7:49 AM https://mobile.twitter.com/joyopal/status/1371644800156364801?s=12 Short Notes: Facebook's Faces by Chinmayi Arun :: SSRN Date:Mar 16, 2021 4:22 PM https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3805210 Short Notes: Twitter launches multi-lingual ‘info prompt’ ahead of Assembly elections - The Hindu Date:Mar 16, 2021 4:23 PM https://www.thehindu.com/business/twitter-launches-multi-lingual-info-prompt-ahead-of-assembly-elections/article34080472.ece Short Notes:Elections Are digital platforms potential drivers of the populist vote? A comparative analysis of France, Germany and Italy: Information, Communication & Society: Vol 0, No 0 [[narrative dominance]] Date:Mar 16, 2021 10:31 PM https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1894211?scroll=top&needAccess=true&journalCode=rics20& Short Notes: A survey of data center consolidation in cloud computing systems - ScienceDirect [[syl]] Date:Mar 16, 2021 10:42 PM https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S157401372100006X Short Notes: National intelligence council. Foreign threats to us elections Date:Mar 17, 2021 7:45 AM https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ICA-declass-16MAR21.pdf Short Notes: Why Europe Suspending AstraZeneca Vaccines May Be Political - The New York Times (accelerated information flows) (vaxxing and warning) Date:Mar 17, 2021 12:39 PM https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/world/europe/europe-astrazeneca-vaccine-suspensions.html#click=https://t.co/H2DrwYdscp Short Notes: Moderation in Infrastructure (Stratechery Weekly Article 3-16-2021) Date:Mar 17, 2021 1:11 PM https://newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com/a8a/a8a8ccad51aa5f77b21ad5098ab509368f8b7173.html Short Notes: Conspiracy Theory Books About COVID Are All Over Amazon Date:Mar 17, 2021 1:13 PM https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/amazon-covid-conspiracy-books Short Notes: No proposal to appoint regulator for social media, says Union minister Prasad | Hindustan Times Date:Mar 17, 2021 6:37 PM https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/no-proposal-to-appoint-regulator-for-social-media-says-union-minister-prasad-101615985503740.html Short Notes:MWI Polish state websites hacked and used to spread false info - The Washington Post [[atw]] Date:Mar 19, 2021 6:16 AM https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/polish-state-websites-hacked-and-used-to-spread-false-info/2021/03/17/0d03cd10-873e-11eb-be4a-24b89f616f2c_story.html Short Notes: A Tale of Two Takedowns (twitter india and us) Date:Mar 20, 2021 3:24 PM https://www.logically.ai/articles/a-tale-of-two-takedowns Short Notes: EA Law Society sues Uganda for shutting down internet during polls - The East African Date:Mar 20, 2021 3:28 PM https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/ea-law-society-sues-uganda-internet-shutdown-election-3323246 Short Notes:ATW Screening Of COVID-19 'Super-Spreaders' Begins In Ahmedabad: Civic Body - framing hall of fame Date:Mar 20, 2021 7:01 PM https://www.ndtv.com/ahmedabad-news/screening-of-covid-19-super-spreaders-begins-in-ahmedabad-civic-body-2395189 Short Notes:MWI How Covid-19 Supercharged the Advertising ‘Triopoly’ of Google, Facebook and Amazon - WSJ Date:Mar 20, 2021 7:10 PM https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-covid-19-supercharged-the-advertising-triopoly-of-google-facebook-and-amazon-11616163738 Short Notes: Child Rights Body NCPCR Asks Netflix To Stop Streaming Bombay Begums Over Portrayal Of Children Date:Mar 20, 2021 7:11 PM https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/child-rights-body-ncpcr-asks-netflix-to-stop-streaming-bombay-begums-over-portrayal-of-children-2389010 Short Notes:MWI Non-English editions of Wikipedia have a misinformation problem. Date:Mar 21, 2021 11:28 AM https://slate.com/technology/2021/03/japanese-wikipedia-misinformation-non-english-editions.html Short Notes:ATW TikTok is repeating all of Facebook’s mistakes in Myanmar - Rest of World Date:Mar 21, 2021 7:46 PM https://restofworld.org/2021/tiktok-is-repeating-facebooks-mistakes-in-myanmar/ Short Notes:ATW No proposal for law to make Google, FB share ad revenue with publishers: I&B min - Exchange4media Date:Mar 22, 2021 2:08 PM https://www.exchange4media.com/digital-news/no-proposal-for-law-to-make-google-fb-share-ad-revenue-with-publishers-ib-min-111740.html Short Notes:MWI Oppn used farmers to grab power, misleading them: CM | Lucknow News - Times of India - MWI Date:Mar 22, 2021 2:22 PM https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/oppn-used-farmers-to-grab-power-misleading-them-cm/articleshow/81622037.cms Short Notes: Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online | Nature Studies Date:Mar 22, 2021 2:54 PM https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03344-2?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=commission_junction&utm_campaign=3_nsn6445_deeplink_PID100095187&utm_content=deeplink Short Notes:Our results suggest that the current design of social media platforms—in which users scroll quickly through a mixture of serious news and emotionally engaging content, and receive instantaneous quantified social feedback on their sharing—may discourage people from reflecting on accuracy. Negligence, Not Politics, Drives Most Misinformation Sharing | WIRED studies Date:Mar 22, 2021 3:13 PM https://www.wired.com/story/negligence-most-misinformation-sharing/ Short Notes:What’s truth got to do with it? TikTok starts banning accounts in Myanmar to curb misinformation- The New Indian Express Date:Mar 22, 2021 3:21 PM https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2021/mar/21/tiktok-starts-banning-accounts-in-myanmar-to-curb-misinformation-2279580.html Short Notes:tiktok myanmar Hitting the Books: How social media keeps us clicking | Engadget (link to mdm 34 nature research) Date:Mar 22, 2021 3:24 PM https://www.engadget.com/hitting-the-books-the-hype-machine-sinan-aral-fortier-143007043.html Short Notes:https://www.engadget.com/hitting-the-books-the-hype-machine-sinan-aral-fortier-143007043.html Disinformation goes to Hollywood: four lessons from journalism Date:Mar 22, 2021 6:32 PM https://firstdraftnews.org/latest/disinfo-hollywood/ Short Notes: Blind belief, misinformation hampers vaccination drive in Rajkot - Times of India - MWI Date:Mar 23, 2021 9:19 AM https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/rajkot/blind-belief-misinformation-hampers-vaccination-drive/articleshow/81637391.cms Short Notes: OII Comprop Case-Studies_FINAL.pdf - India section - Studies Date:Mar 23, 2021 9:30 AM https://demtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/127/2021/03/Case-Studies_FINAL.pdf Short Notes: Why “Speaking Your Truth” May Be the New Alternative Facts - Ess1 Date:Mar 23, 2021 9:33 AM https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/22/speaking-your-truth-alternative-facts/ Short Notes: Russian Disinformation Campaign Aims to Undermine Confidence in Pfizer, Other Covid-19 Vaccines, U.S. Officials Say - WSJ - ATW Date:Mar 23, 2021 9:38 AM https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-disinformation-campaign-aims-to-undermine-confidence-in-pfizer-other-covid-19-vaccines-u-s-officials-say-11615129200 Short Notes: The BJP's Toolkit Is Not Working That Well Date:Mar 23, 2021 10:25 AM https://thewire.in/politics/the-bjps-toolkit-is-not-working-that-well Short Notes: AI-Powered Text From This Program Could Fool the Government | WIRED Date:Mar 23, 2021 1:24 PM https://www.wired.com/story/ai-powered-text-program-could-fool-government/?mbid=social_twitter&utm_brand=wired&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=twitter Short Notes:video deepfakes Online market failures and harms: an economic perspective on the challenges and opportunities in regulating online services - online-market-failures-and-harms.pdf [[narrative dominance]] Date:Mar 23, 2021 2:18 PM https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0025/174634/online-market-failures-and-harms.pdf Short Notes: Social media and the public interest_ Governance of news platforms in the realm of individual and algorithmic gatekeepers - j.telpol.2014.12.003.pdf [[narrative dominance]] Date:Mar 23, 2021 2:22 PM https://pdf.zlibcdn.com/dtoken/579b3d7b08a4052a7c47e1a0d8d53027/j.telpol.2014.12.003.pdf Short Notes: Polish writer Jakub Zulczyk charged for calling President Duda a 'moron' - BBC News ATW Date:Mar 23, 2021 10:27 PM https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56491949 Short Notes: Russia outsources disinformation efforts to foreign troll farms - Roll Call - ATW Date:Mar 23, 2021 10:32 PM https://www.rollcall.com/2021/03/23/russia-outsources-disinformation-efforts-to-foreign-troll-farms/ Short Notes: How we investigated Covid-19 vaccine misinformation on Facebook Date:Mar 23, 2021 10:45 PM https://firstdraftnews.org/latest/how-we-investigated-the-spread-of-covid-19-vaccine-misinformation-on-facebook/ Short Notes: Facebook leak underscores strategy to operate in repressive regimes | Facebook | The Guardian Date:Mar 24, 2021 7:10 AM https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/23/facebook-leak-underscore-strategy-operate-repressive-regimes Short Notes: Twitter Says Calling Boulder Shooter a 'White Christian Terrorist' Is OK Date:Mar 24, 2021 7:57 AM https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-says-calling-boulder-shooter-white-christian-terrorist-ok-1578284 Short Notes: Facebook Treats Punk Rockers Like Crazy Conspiracy Theorists, Kicks Them Offline | Electronic Frontier Foundation Date:Mar 24, 2021 4:03 PM https://www.eff.org/takedowns/facebook-treats-punk-rockers-crazy-conspiracy-theorists-kicks-them-offline Short Notes: Moral Foundations Theory | moralfoundations.org Date:Mar 25, 2021 5:09 PM https://moralfoundations.org/ Short Notes: The Disinformation Dozen | Center for Countering Digital Hate Date:Mar 26, 2021 12:44 AM https://www.counterhate.com/disinformationdozen Short Notes: From security to tourism, election focus shifts in erstwhile Red zone - Times of India - MWI Date:Mar 26, 2021 4:37 PM https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/from-security-to-tourism-election-focus-shifts-in-erstwhile-red-zone/articleshow/81695265.cms Short Notes: Hate, Extremism on Social Media Needs an Ombudsman's Hand - Bloomberg Date:Mar 26, 2021 4:40 PM https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-25/hate-extremism-on-social-media-needs-an-ombudsman-s-hand Short Notes: Maharashtra and Goa opt a creative route to tackle vaccine hesitancy - MWI Date:Mar 26, 2021 4:45 PM https://www.livemint.com/news/india/maharashtra-and-goa-opt-a-creative-route-to-tackle-vaccine-hesitancy-11616683445381.html Short Notes: How legacy media lobbied against digital competition - The Morning Context Date:Mar 26, 2021 4:51 PM https://themorningcontext.com/business/how-legacy-media-lobbied-against-digital-competition Short Notes: Brendan Nyhan Syllabus Date:Mar 26, 2021 7:49 PM https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.dartmouth.edu/dist/5/2293/files/2021/03/misinformation-syllabus.pdf Short Notes: Covid-19 Analysis: How anti-vaccine narratives went global during the pandemic – BBC Monitoring Date:Mar 28, 2021 12:26 AM https://monitoring.bbc.co.uk/product/c202gf9v Short Notes: Venezuela accuses Facebook of 'digital totalitarianism' for suspending Maduro | Hindustan Times Date:Mar 28, 2021 11:26 PM https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/venezuela-accuses-facebook-of-digital-totalitarianism-for-suspending-maduro-101616948928133.html Short Notes: Even with Changes, the Revised PACT Act Will Lead to More Online Censorship | Electronic Frontier Foundation (potential essay topic combine with harvard law collection) Date:Mar 29, 2021 1:02 AM https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/even-changes-revised-pact-act-will-lead-more-online-censorship Short Notes: How to Stop Misinformation’s Spread Before It’s Even Shared | WIRED reintroduce friction says Renee DiResta Date:Mar 29, 2021 1:17 AM https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stop-misinformation-before-it-gets-shared/ Short Notes: Mobile 3G, 4G services shut down at places | The Daily Star ATW (Bangladesh, Modi) Date:Mar 29, 2021 2:03 PM https://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/news/mobile-3g-4g-services-shutdown-places-2068425 Short Notes: How Stalin’s quartet is transforming DMK (link to congress recruitment) Date:Mar 29, 2021 2:32 PM https://www.livemint.com/elections/assembly-elections/inside-the-quiet-transformation-of-mk-stalin-s-dmk-11616749819820.html Short Notes:War Rooms How LDF, UDF and BJP are using social media as ammunition to wage the online war | The News Minute Date:Mar 29, 2021 7:14 PM https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/how-ldf-udf-and-bjp-are-using-social-media-ammunition-wage-online-war-146155 Short Notes:War Rooms Congress 'war' room abuzz with activity as battle for 4 states, 1 UT draws near | Hindustan Times Date:Mar 29, 2021 7:18 PM https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/congress-war-room-abuzz-with-activity-as-battle-for-4-states-1-ut-draws-near-101614495237567.html Short Notes:War Rooms War rooms: Vibes matter most while bytes set agenda - The Hindu BusinessLine Date:Mar 29, 2021 7:19 PM https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/national/war-rooms-vibes-matter-most-while-bytes-set-agenda/article34188284.ece Short Notes:War Rooms If political decency is not in our DNA, let’s fake it Date:Mar 29, 2021 7:20 PM https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/chennaitalkies/if-political-decency-is-not-in-our-dna-lets-fake-it-2/ Short Notes:War Rooms Dravidian parties amp up digital war - The Hindu BusinessLine Date:Mar 29, 2021 7:21 PM https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/no-holds-barred-dravidian-electoral-battle-runs-on-digital/article34119114.ece Short Notes:War Rooms Election in times of pandemic forces parties to go ‘phygital’ - Times of India Date:Mar 29, 2021 7:25 PM https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/election-in-times-of-pandemic-forces-parties-to-go-phygital/articleshow/81682533.cms Short Notes:War Rooms Social media posts during Holi on radar Ranchi [[mwi]] Date:Mar 29, 2021 11:41 PM https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2021/mar/29/ranchi-diary-2282985.html Short Notes: Opinion | Misinformation Isn't Just on Facebook and Twitter - The New York Times Date:Mar 30, 2021 6:57 AM https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/opinion/misinformation-television-radio.html Short Notes: On Google Podcasts, a Buffet of Hate - The New York Times Date:Mar 30, 2021 7:49 AM https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/arts/google-podcasts-extremism.html Short Notes: Manipur withdraws myanmar refuge order Date:Mar 30, 2021 12:58 PM https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/manipur-withdraws-order-asking-authorities-to-not-give-food-shelter-to-myanmar-nationals-seeking-refuge-government-sources-2401942 Short Notes: Amazon is sending employees into the trenches on Twitter as it battles its first union vote and reports about workers peeing in bottles | Business Insider India Date:Mar 30, 2021 1:00 PM https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/amazon-is-sending-employees-into-the-trenches-on-twitter-as-it-battles-its-first-union-vote-and-reports-about-workers-peeing-in-bottles/articleshow/81751201.cms Short Notes: How Digital Advertising Markets Really Work - The American Prospect (Dina Srinivasan) Date:Mar 31, 2021 11:44 AM https://prospect.org/economy/digital-advertising-markets-really-work/ Short Notes: Google pledges 25 million euros to strengthen media literacy in Europe | Business Standard News [[btmw]] Date:Mar 31, 2021 2:12 PM https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/google-pledges-25-million-euros-to-strengthen-media-literacy-in-europe-121033100375_1.html Short Notes: Assembly elections: Facebook to curb hate speech in India | India News - Times of India Date:Mar 31, 2021 2:12 PM https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/assembly-elections-facebook-to-curb-hate-speech-in-india/articleshow/81774408.cms Short Notes:War room + other platform measures BOOM Study: Analysing More Than A Year Of COVID-19 Fact Checks [[mwi]] [[&paper]] Date:Mar 31, 2021 2:13 PM https://www.boomlive.in/fact-file/boom-study-coronavirus-covid-19-fake-news-fact-checking-infodemic-12568 Short Notes: Full Fact launches consultation on the Framework for Information Incidents - Full Fact Date:Mar 31, 2021 3:08 PM https://fullfact.org/blog/2021/mar/consultation-framework-information-incidents/ Short Notes: Mitigating Medical Misinformation: A Whole-of-Society Approach to Countering Spam, Scams, and Hoaxes | Media Manipulation Casebook Date:Mar 31, 2021 9:42 PM https://mediamanipulation.org/research/mitigating-medical-misinformation-whole-society-approach-countering-spam-scams-and-hoaxes Short Notes: Haven't seen specific focused manipulation concerning Indian assembly elections so far: Twitter - The Economic Times Date:Mar 31, 2021 9:45 PM https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/havent-seen-specific-focused-manipulation-concerning-indian-assembly-elections-so-far-twitter/articleshow/81783549.cms Short Notes: Opinion | You Had Me at ‘Has Never Filed for Bankruptcy’ - The New York Times Date:Mar 31, 2021 11:19 PM https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/opinion/tinder-match-background-check.html Short Notes: Amazon's private labels — Benedict Evans Date:Apr 1, 2021 12:13 AM https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/3/28/amazon-private-label Short Notes: Colonial Topographies of Internet Infrastructure: The Sedimented and Linked Networks of the Telegraph and Submarine Fiber Optic Internet: South Asian Review: Vol 40, No 3 ₹ [[&paper]] Date:May 23, 2021 10:34 AM https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02759527.2019.1599563 Short Notes: The geopolitics of ‘platforms’: the TikTok challenge | Internet Policy Review [[%tie]] [[btmw]] [[tiktok]] [[&paper]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:07 PM https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/geopolitics-platforms-tiktok-challenge Short Notes: 202105171352 - 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Singapore netizens accuse Delhi CM of spreading Covid misinformation Business Standard News Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105192252 - Mob Violence Against Palestinians in Israel Is Fueled by Groups on WhatsApp - The New York Times Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105191950 - When Social Media Was Flooded With COVID SOS Calls, Union Ministers Only Praised Centre Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105191948 - Pooja 🌈 on Twitter When you're too deep in your own lie, the only outcome is getting caught. https t.co GbaH0md96N Twitter Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105191156 - Arvind Kejriwal's tweet on 'Singapore COVID-19 strain' sparks diplomatic row; S Jaishankar slams 'irresponsible comments' - India News , Firstpost Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105191301 - How Covid SOS Posts on Social Media Are Turning Into a Privacy Nightmare Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105190830 - Google launches News Showcase in India just as IT Rules come into force Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105190727 - TI Creator Economy A Table of Tipping Take Rates; Cameo Gets a New Rival — The Information Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105182046 - Venmo is halting some payments referring to Palestine - Rest of World Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105181820 - Clubhouse Has a Blocking Problem - The Atlantic Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105181336 - Highlights and analysis from Election Day 2020 Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105181232 - Manipur activist, journalist charged under NSA for posts on cow urine after BJP leader dies of Covid Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105181220 - Facebook Oversight Board’s Decision on Trump Ban in a Global Context The Treatment of Political Leaders Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105181157 - Exclusive Read the government's fake news advisory to social media companies Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105172113 - 2 Modi Govt Advisers Warned New IT Rules Beyond Scope Of Law, Were Overruled Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105160842 - Meredith Whittaker on Twitter Misinfo disinfo people, time to bear witness. https t.co Foo6PaJyt0 Twitter Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105160840 - A Press Corps Deceived, and the Gaza Invasion That Wasn’t - The New York Times Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105160831 - Israel-Palestinian conflict False and misleading claims fact-checked - BBC News Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105152314 - Instagram, Twitter blame glitch for deleted Sheikh Jarrah posts Business and Economy News Al Jazeera Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105132116 - El Salvador’s president is remaking the government’s social media in his image - Rest of World Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105201929 - India Instagram’s censorship of COVID-19 posts jeopardises free speech Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105150745 - Facebook meets with Israeli and Palestinian officials to discuss online hate speech, threats as violence escalates Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105142259 - How social media took us from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump MIT Technology Review Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105181859 - Settled Habits, New Tricks Casteist Policing Meets Big Tech in India - Longreads Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105161501 - Privacy activists are winning fights with tech giants. Why does victory feel hollow Technology The Guardian Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105141255 - Action being taken on GOM communication report, says Govt Hindustan Times Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105141254 - More CCTV cameras installed to make Hyderabad safer Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105091742 - What magic teaches us about misinformation Financial Times Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105130902 - Clubhouse Has a Blocking Problem - The Atlantic Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105130010 - Kate Starbird on participatory disinformation Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105130016 - Dangerous eBay listings can be removed by regulators - BBC News Date:May 23, 2021 6:25 PM Short Notes: 202105130006 - GOP turns cancel culture on itself - The Washington Post Date:May 23, 2021 6:26 PM Short Notes: 202105130003 - Facebook is under new scrutiny for its moderation practices in Europe Engadget Date:May 23, 2021 6:26 PM Short Notes: 202105122257 - Al-Aqsa Instagram Labeled One Of Islam’s Holiest Mosques A Terrorist Org Date:May 23, 2021 6:26 PM Short Notes: 202105122214 - Ideas - Mauritius’s slow slide into authoritarianism - Rest of World Date:May 23, 2021 6:26 PM Short Notes: 202105121904 - Tech companies are all creator companies Date:May 23, 2021 6:26 PM Short Notes: 202105122248 - Why a more feminist internet would be better for everyone MIT Technology Review Date:May 23, 2021 6:26 PM Short Notes: 202105131947 - Stop The Steal, West Bengal Style Disinfo Narratives Around Political Violence Date:May 23, 2021 6:26 PM Short Notes: 202105140758 - Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows NPR Date:May 23, 2021 6:26 PM Short Notes: 202105140807 - Anatomy of the Big Lie Participatory Disinformation vs. Democracy Date:May 23, 2021 6:26 PM Short Notes: 202105121832 - Fact-checking Modi’s post-truth India - Rest of World Date:May 23, 2021 6:26 PM Short Notes: 202105121629 - Mark Scott on OSA UK Date:May 23, 2021 6:26 PM Short Notes: 202105121345 - Rasmus Kleis Nielsen on OSA and politician inciting violence Date:May 23, 2021 6:26 PM Short Notes: 202105112154 - They’re Trying to Save Lives in India. YouTube Says Their Videos Are Dangerous. Date:May 23, 2021 6:26 PM Short Notes: 202104132220 - Narratives can help science counter misinformation on vaccines • News Service • Iowa State University Date:May 23, 2021 6:26 PM Short Notes: 202105112026 - Marcel Schliebs on two reports on China's online public diplomacy Date:May 23, 2021 6:26 PM Short Notes: 202105111726 - India’s Epidemic of False COVID-19 Information The New Yorker Date:May 23, 2021 6:26 PM Short Notes: 202105110801 - Infographic Activism on Instagram is Performative and Weird by Laquesha Bailey May, 2021 An Injustice! Date:May 23, 2021 6:26 PM Short Notes: 202105101954 - Disinformation is emerging as a threat to businesses Date:May 23, 2021 6:26 PM Short Notes: 202105091241 - Loan sharks target new victims via WhatsApp and Facebook Scams The Guardian Date:May 23, 2021 6:26 PM Short Notes: 202105121535 - GOP lawmaker floats bill to register and fine 'fact checkers' Date:May 23, 2021 6:26 PM Short Notes: 202105090021 - How to talk to insurrectionists and conspiracy theorists - CNN Date:May 23, 2021 6:26 PM Short Notes: 202105082316 - Telecom companies' body forced to dispel rumours linking COVID-19 to 5G trials- The New Indian Express Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105082312 - Center for Countering Disinformation - Zelensky approves regulation — UNIAN Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105081629 - The Viewpoint Advertising Standards for Social Media Influencers Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105081627 - CID makes 1st arrests for fake news; FIR against Kangana Kolkata News - Times of India Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105081627 - Centre asks social media platforms to check COVID-19 misinformation Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105080716 - ‘Belonging Is Stronger Than Facts’ The Age of Misinformation - The New York Times Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105080714 - West Bengal violence Bengal cops file FIRs to bust ‘fake news’ on clashes Kolkata News - Times of India Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105080706 - ‘Shameless’ AAP draws journalist ire for cutting access to Hindustan Times reporters Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105071635 - Does Amazon know what it sells — Benedict Evans Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/5/5/does-amazon-know-what-it-sells Short Notes: 202105071403 - Twitter is testing a new Tip Jar feature for sending money to your favorite accounts - The Verge Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105062101 - Hillary Clinton ‘There has to be a global reckoning with disinformation’ Hillary Clinton The Guardian Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105062303 - Facebook's Trump Ban Has Been a Limited Success - The Atlantic Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105062235 - SamSays on Bengal Violence Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105062221 - The power — and carelessness — of film - The Other Sarah McLaughlin's Newsletter Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105062220 - Twitter, more speech, and mobs - The Other Sarah McLaughlin's Newsletter Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105062045 - Clubhouse Faces New Antisemitism Accusations Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105061200 - Bengal How BJP Leaders Used Fake News to Build a Communal Narrative on Post-Poll Violence Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105061914 - China pressured EU to drop COVID disinformation criticism sources Reuters Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105062006 - Fake ‘Khela Hobe’ posts under police lens - Telegraph India Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105062008 - Cops invoke anti-fake news ordinance over India flights viral post Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105062112 - Report finds 82% of FCC net neutrality comments were fake - Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105080715 - Bengal How BJP Leaders Used Fake News to Build a Communal Narrative on Post-Poll Violence Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105080719 - The Four Horsemen of Fake News Psychology Today Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202104302243 - Online violence vs women journalists sharply increasing – UNESCO study Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105022221 - Congress is way behind on algorithmic misinformation - The Verge Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105022209 - To Fight Social Media Disinformation, Look to the Algorithms Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105022225 - Spotify’s Joe Rogan encourages healthy 21-year-olds not to get a coronavirus vaccine Media Matters for America Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202104190728 - Facebook’s social audio plans include podcast discovery and a Clubhouse clone - Vox Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202103311445 - On Google Podcasts, a Buffet of Hate - The New York Times Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202104231338 - So(S)cial Media Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105061045 - Kangana welcomed back on Koo; founders re-post her message ‘Made in India' is like home, rest all was rented' The Tribune India Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105020819 - France planning to allow use of algorithms to detect extremism online France The Guardian Date:May 23, 2021 6:27 PM Short Notes: 202105031030 - US slams govt-imposed internet shutdowns, seeks accountability for crimes against journalists Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202105050825 - Florida plans to fine social media for banning politicians - BBC News Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202105031020 - New AI Regulations Are Coming. Is Your Organization Ready Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202105030725 - Facebook and the Normalization of Deviance The New Yorker Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202105040742 - It Took Four Months And Thousands Of Dollars To Overturn One Manifestly Stupid Upload Block Imagine How Bad It Will Soon Be With EU Copyright Directive's Blanket Use Of Filters Techdirt Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202105040816 - Regulating online platforms how EU Member States are undermining the Digital Services Act - Access Now Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202105041644 - Cybersecurity Ignorance Is Dangerous Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202105042052 - With threats and trolls, organizing online Covid-19 relief in India gets complicated - Rest of World Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202105042143 - YouTube will lift ban on Trump channel when risk of violence decreases Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202105050718 - Donald Trump’s ‘social media platform’ has launched and it’s just a blog - The Verge Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202105022204 - As the pandemic rages, desperate Indians are turning to online crowd-sourcing for help little state resources, citizen-led online initiatives are helping people find everything from oxygen to ICU beds. - Rest of World Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104181415 - Tech giants are happy to do Modi’s bidding in return for access to the Indian market Facebook The Guardian Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104251920 - De facto shared sovereignty and the rise of non-state statecraft Imperatives for nation-states ORF Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104260855 - Aviv Ovadya 🥦 on authenticity infrastructure Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104271142 - Delhi Police registers FIR against 'misinformation spreaders' on social media Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104282357 - Delhi COVID-19 volunteers claim intimidation by cops; BJP's IT cell suspected Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104291949 - Are Google and Facebook really the future of journalism New Policies risk making it so - Columbia Journalism Review Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104291949 - emily bell on FB Journalist Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104291655 - Sleeping Giants on Stop the Steal content are monetized by @googleads (Gateway Pundit) and @YouTube, owned by @Google. Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104291505 - Yogi Says ‘No Oxygen Shortage in UP’, But Here’s a Reality Check Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104290132 - Social media superspreaders turned pandemic misinformation into an “infodemic” - Rest of World Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104281406 - Becca Lewis Borderline Content Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104281220 - How Extremists Like The Proud Boys Weaponize Irony And Memes To Spread Hate NPR Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104280811 - Extremists Find a Financial Lifeline on Twitch - The New York Times Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104280644 - Tarleton Gillespie borderline content Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104272337 - Joan Donovan Public Interest Internet Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104271652 - TikTok to open a ‘Transparency’ Center in Europe to take content and security questions TechCrunch Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104271504 - Twitter and the 2021 West Bengal Assembly Elections – Joyojeet Pal Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104271136 - “Newsworthiness,” Trump, and the Facebook Oversight Board - Columbia Journalism Review Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104271031 - India’s policing of social media ‘not aligned with U.S. views on freedom of speech’, says White House - The Hindu Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104270012 - Read Facebook's Internal Report About Its Role In The Capitol Insurrection Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104261535 - WhatsApp group admin not liable for objectionable post by other member High Court - The Economic Times Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104252135 - London Mayoral Election YouTubers Are Trying to Turn Likes Into Votes Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104260645 - The Influencers Who Keep Stoking Fears About Vaccines - The Atlantic Date:May 23, 2021 6:28 PM Short Notes: 202104252033 - Women Are Battling China’s Angry Trolls. 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How can nations respond ORF Date:May 23, 2021 6:32 PM Short Notes: 202104160116 - Facebook has beefed up its ‘oversight board’, but any new powers are illusory Facebook The Guardian Date:May 23, 2021 6:32 PM Short Notes: 202104151848 - Facebook planned to remove fake accounts in India – until it realized a BJP politician was involved Social media The Guardian Date:May 23, 2021 6:32 PM Short Notes: 202104132222 - Climate lies are Facebook’s new target in the misinformation war Hindustan Times Date:May 23, 2021 6:32 PM Short Notes: 202104141853 - Facebook takes down (and restores) official page for French town of Bitche – POLITICO Date:May 23, 2021 6:32 PM Short Notes: 202104181603 - Team Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson Vaccine rivalries are taking over TikTok Date:May 23, 2021 6:32 PM Short Notes: 202104200720 - Here’s how to fix online harassment. 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How well do they work Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Vol 77, No 3 Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105151039 - The Swiss cheese model for mitigating online misinformation Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Vol 77, No 3 Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105162112 - Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking Being Corrected by Another User for Posting False Political News Increases Subsequent Sharing of Low Quality, Partisan, and Toxic Content in a Twitter Field Experiment Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105150810 - Social Media Platforms are Silencing Social Movements Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105161953 - Everything in Moderation Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105162003 - Holding Platforms Accountable Online Speech in the Age of Algorithms Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105141240 - Deplatforming Misogyny - LEAF Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105122256 - Government’s Kafkaesque plans for regulating online speech is condemned Open Rights Group Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105122008 - What is civil society and who represents civil society at the IGF An analysis of civil society typologies in internet governance - ScienceDirect Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105121959 - Governing what cannot be named Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105122348 - Caught in the Net The Impact of Extremist Speech Regulations on Human Rights Content Electronic Frontier Foundation Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105131517 - Research Challenges in Information Science 15th International Conference ... - Google Books Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105131521 - Transforming Society and Organizations through Gamification From the ... - Google Books Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105132106 - Towards psychological herd immunity Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105140118 - DEMICS · Commonplace Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105140730 - Breaking the Privacy Gridlock Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105140732 - Federal Rules of Platform Procedure by Rory Van Loo SSRN Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105121432 - Fighting Hate with Speech Law Media and German Visions of Democracy The Journal of Holocaust Research Vol 35, No 2 Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105121629 - Landmark laws to keep children safe, stop racial hate and protect democracy online published - GOV.UK Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105120813 - Why the backfire effect does not explain the durability of political misperceptions PNAS Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105121814 - China’s Inauthentic UK Twitter Diplomacy Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105121814 - China’s Public Diplomacy Operations Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105091215 - Unsocial Media Inclusion, Representation, and Safety for Women on Social Networking Platforms ORF Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105121750 - Indian States, Deradicalisation and Online Platforms ORF Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105082327 - Statement by Press Secretary Jen Psaki on the Occasion of the United States Joining the Christchurch Call to Action to Eliminate Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content Online The White House Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105082309 - Beware those trying to fix “fake news” If governments and corporations become the definers of “fake news” we are in deep trouble - Jodie Ginsberg, 2018 Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105072058 - Disinformation and freedom of opinion and expression Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105071434 - Digital Technologies, Peacebuilding and Civil Society Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105062324 - Pro-Trump & Russian-Linked Twitter Accounts Are Posing As Ex-Democrats In New Astroturfed Movement by Caroline Orr, Ph.D Arc Digital Medium Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105061006 - Polarization or Propaganda Boston Review Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105022229 - Research note Likes, sarcasm and politics Youth responses to a platform-initiated media literacy campaign on social media HKS Misinformation Review Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105040925 - Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Fake News How Social Media Conditions Individuals to Be Less Critical of Political Misinformation Political Communication Vol 0, No 0 Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105041036 - Anti-science Misinformation and Conspiracies COVID–19, Post-truth, and Science & Technology Studies (STS) - Amit Prasad, 2021 Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105041036 - Hashtag Wars Political Disinformation and Discursive Struggles on Twitter Conversations During the 2018 Brazilian Presidential Campaign - Felipe Bonow Soares, Raquel Recuero, 2021 Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105042029 - The good, the bad and the ugly how platforms are prioritising some EU member states in their COVID-19 disinformation responses EU DisinfoLab Date:May 23, 2021 6:41 PM Short Notes: 202105012037 - Starbird model to explain how online social networks, algorithms, and human action are all mutually shaping. 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