Holiday Link Round-Up

Have a lovely weekend

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. 

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