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Holiday Link Round-Up

Have a lovely weekend

Katie Harbath
May 26, 2023
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I’m going to keep today’s newsletter short as it’s the Friday of Memorial Weekend here in the United States, which means you shouldn’t be sitting in front of a computer. Me? I have some crab pots to go check and a pool calling my name. I caught my first two crabs of the season, and they were delicious for breakfast, along with some scrambled eggs.

Another heck of a week, though. In a non-shocking twist, Governor DeSantis’ announcement with Elon Musk had a few technical hiccups. Casey Newton has the inside story here of what happened. The TL;DR (too long, didn’t read) is that they simply don’t have many engineers on it and didn’t stress test the system. 

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I know some people think that doing things on the internet is as simple as flipping a switch, but it takes A LOT of prep work to make something like that go off smoothly. 

Musk tweeted afterward that any presidential candidate is welcome on the platform. I wonder how many will take him up on that?

I hope everyone has a lovely weekend. If you are looking for some stuff to read, below are some links from the past few days that have caught my eye. 

What I’m Reading

  • Axios: 1 big thing: The future of media

  • Roll Call: AI could sway the 2024 elections, campaign pros say — but not like you think

  • Politico Pro: Twitter to pull back from Europe’s disinformation crusade

  • Newsmobile.in: Biden-NAMo Summit on June 22: Here is what is on the White House menu

  • PCWorld: Microsoft will ID its AI art with a hidden watermark

  • The Atlantic: Nextdoor's Volunteer Moderation Struggles with Local Election Misinformation

  • Stanford IO: The Trust & Safety Teaching Consortium

  • Standford: AI: Reporting on the New Battleground of Disinformation, Election Integrity, and Governance

  • CDT (Center for Democracy & Technology): Lost in Translation: Large Language Models in Non-English Content Analysis

  • The Wall Street Journal: Elon Musk Wants to See an AI Rival to Google, Microsoft

  • The New York Times: Driver’s Licenses, Addresses, Photos: Inside How TikTok Shares User Data

  • NDI (National Democratic Institute): Statement Congratulating President Derek Mitchell on Five Years of Extraordinary Leadership

  • Nature: People, not search-engine algorithms, choose unreliable or partisan news

  • The Washington Post: Tech’s ambassador to Washington gambles his career on AI

  • Wired: Deepfakes, Cheapfakes, and Twitter Censorship Mar Turkey’s Elections

Calendar

🚨NEW 🚨

  • June 22 - India state visit to the United States

Topics to keep an eye on:

  • Biden Administration POV on Texas and Florida laws

  • Facebook 2020 election research 

  • TV shows about Facebook - Doomsday Machine and second season of Super Pumped

  • May 24-26, 2023 - Nobel Prize Summit: Truth, Trust and Hope

  • May 28, 2023 - Turkey election runoff

  • May 30, 2023 - Atlantic Council Report Launch: Telegram, WeChat and WhatsApp useage in the United States

  • May: EU-India Trade and Technology Council meeting in Brussels 

  • June 4, 2023 – Guinea Bissau election

  • June 5-9 - RightsCon

  • June 5 - 9 - WWDC - Apple developer event

  • June 5, 2023 - The European Commission, European parliament and EU member states are due to agree a final definition for political advertising 

  • June 11, 2023 – Montenegro election

  • June 13 - Book Release, The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook 

  • June 19, 2023 - Meta response due on COVID misinfo 

  • June 24 - June 30 - Aspen Ideas Festival

  • June 24, 2023 – Sierra Leone election

  • June 25, 2023 – Guatemala election

  • TBD June: DFR Lab 360/OS

  • July 11-13, 2023 - TrustCon

  • July 2023 – Sudan election (likely to have further changes due clashes erupted mid-April, despite temporary humanitarian ceasefire,)

  • July 23, 2023 – Cambodia election

  • July or August 2023 – Zimbabwe election

  • August 10 - 13, 2023 - Defcon

  • August-2023 – Eswatini election

  • August 2023 - First GOP Presidential Primary Debate

  • Mid-September: All Tech Is Human - Responsible Tech Summit NYC

  • September 27-29, 2023: Athens Democracy Forum

  • September 28-29, 2023 - Trust & Safety Research Conference 

  • TBD September: Atlantic Festival

  • TBD September: Unfinished Live

  • September 2023 – Bhutan election

  • September 2023 – Tuvalu election

  • September 9, 2023 – Maldives election

  • September 28-29, 2023 - The Atlantic Festival

  • September 30, 2023 – Slovakia election

  • September 2023 – Rwanda election

  • October 2023 – Oman election

  • October 2023 Poland election

  • October 8, 2023 – Pakistan election

  • October 10, 2023 – Liberia election

  • October 14, 2023 – New Zealand election

  • October 22, 2023 – Switzerland election

  • October 29, 2023 – Argentina election

  • October 2023 – Gabon election

  • October 2023 – Ukraine election

  • Nov 14 - Book Release, Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets by Jeff Horwitz 

  • November 15, 2023 - Aspen Cyber Summit

  • November 20, 2023 – Marshall Islands election

  • November 29, 2023 – Argentina election

  • December 1-3, 2023: Build Peace 2023 Conference

  • December 20, 2023 – Democratic Republic of the Congo election

  • December 2023 –Togo election

  • 2023 or 2024 – Peru election

  • TBD – Dominica election

  • TBD – Luxembourg election

  • TBD – Myanmar election

  • TBD – Spain election

  • TBD – Gabon election

  • TBD – Madagascar election

  • TBD – Haiti election

  • TBD – Libya election

  • TBD – Singapore election

2024

  • January 2024 – Bangladesh election 

  • January 2024 – Finland election 

  • January 13, 2024 – Taiwan election 

  • February 4, 2024 – El Salvador election 

  • February 4, 2024 – Mali election 

  • February 14, 2024 – Indonesia election 

  • February 25, 2024 – Senegal election 

  • February 25, 2024 – Belarus election 

  • March 17, 2024 – Russia election 

  • March 31, 2024 – Ukraine election 

  • April 10, 2024 – South Korea election 

  • April 2024 – Solomon Islands election 

  • April 2024 – Maldives election 

  • May 5, 2024 – Panama election 

  • May 19, 2024 – Dominican Republic election 

  • June 2024 – Mongolia election 

  • June 6-9, 2024 - EU Parliament Elections

  • July 7, 2024 – Mexico election 

  • July 15 - 18, 2024 - Republican National Convention

  • August 19 - 22, 2024 - Democratic Convention, Chicago

  • October 27, 2024 – Uruguay election 

  • October 2024 – Mozambique election 

  • October 2024 – Chad election 

  • November 2024 – Guinea Bissau election 

  • November 2024 – Moldova election 

  • November 2024 – Romania election 

  • November 5, 2024 – United States of America election 

  • November 12, 2024 – Palau election 

  • December 2024 – Croatia election 

  • TBD – Algeria election 

  • TBD – Austria election 

  • TBD – Belgium election 

  • TBD – Botswana election 

  • TBD – Burkina Faso election 

  • TBD – Chad election 

  • TBD – Comoros election 

  • TBD – Croatia election 

  • TBD – Dominica election 

  • TBD – Egypt election 

  • TBD – Ethiopia election 

  • TBD – Georgia election 

  • TBD – Ghana election 

  • TBD – Iceland election 

  • TBD – India election 

  • TBD – Iran election 

  • TBD – Jordan election 

  • TBD – Kiribati election 

  • TBD – Kuwait election 

  • TBD – Lithuania election

  • TBD – Madagascar election 

  • TBD – Mauritania election

  • TBD – Mauritius election

  • TBD – Montenegro election 

  • TBD – North Korea election

  • TBD – North Macedonia election

  • TBD – Romania election 

  • TBD – Rwanda election

  • TBD – San Marino election

  • TBD – Slovakia election 

  • TBD – South Africa election

  • TBD – South Sudan election

  • TBD – Syria election 

  • TBD – Tunisia election

  • TBD – United States of America election 

  • TBD – Uzbekistan election

  • TBD – Venezuela election

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