What I'm Reading - 4/28/24
I don’t know how to describe the Eric Church show my friend Beth and I saw at Stagecoach Friday night.
We were expecting a rowdy party and instead got 75 minutes of an acoustic gospel/blues/country set that saw Joanna Cotten return. We were truly taken to Church and saw something he’d never done before. We loved it and as Rolling Stone said, “It was a helluva thing to witness.”
Between this and Taylor and Beyoncé’s album, there is a lot of music to process in two weeks. I might need to write more about this on Wednesday.
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What I’m Reading
Washington Post: Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigns; transitional council sworn in
Stanford with Dave Willner and Samidh Chakrabarti: The Future of Content Moderation and its Implications for Governance
Washington Post: AI deepfakes threaten to upend global elections. No one can stop them.
Washington Post: As Meta flees politics, campaigns rely on new tricks to reach voters
On the Think Tanks: Rethinking how think tanks participate in democratic elections
IFES: New Report Highlights Best Practices to Counter Election Disinformation
Microsoft: Expanding our Content Integrity tools to support global elections
Snap: Sharing our Response to Civil Society Groups on Election Integrity
New York Times: New Group Joins the Political Fight Over Disinformation Online
Elections & Voting Information Center: The Elections Workforce: How Many Election Workers are there Nationwide?
Klonickles: TL;DR: Misinfo Motivated Reasoning, How to Improve Child Exploitation Tip Lines, and Jonathan Haidt's Hype
The Conversation: From shrimp Jesus to fake self-portraits, AI-generated images have become the latest form of social media spam
Stanford: How to Fix the Online Child Exploitation Reporting System
Alicia Wanless: The Information Animal
Washington Post: Biden signs bill that could ban TikTok, a strike years in the making
Ad Impact: $8.0M in ad spending and reservations on the TikTok issue
Washington Post: Gateway Pundit to file for bankruptcy amid election conspiracy lawsuits
Microsoft: Tiny but mighty: The Phi-3 small language models with big potential
New York Times: This Conversation Made Me a Sharper Editor
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