What I'm Reading - 5/19/24

I’m back on the Eastern Shore! I haven’t been here in a month, and I missed it. The pool is open, and it is hard to believe Memorial Day is just around the corner. I spent Saturday going to the garden center and just hanging on my front porch, listening to the rain while reading, playing with watercolors, and journaling.

Here’s a little picture I did of an amethyst crystal.

Have a great Sunday!

What I’m Reading

1. AP News: Nervous about falling behind the GOP, Democrats are wrestling with how to use AI

2. Global Investigative Journalism Network: How Generative AI Is Helping Fact-Checkers Flag Election Legal & Regulatory Issues

3. New York Times: OpenAI Unveils New ChatGPT That Listens, Looks and Talks 

4. Techdirt: Bluesky Is Building The Decentralized Social Media Jack Dorsey Wants, Even If He Doesn’t Realize It

5. The Guardian: Ukraine unveils AI-generated foreign ministry spokesperson

6. Stratechery: The Great Flattening 

7. The New York Times: Biden and Trump Agree to Two Debates in June and September

8. Project Liberty: Frank McCourt Organizing a People’s Bid to Acquire TikTok

9. The New York Times: R.F.K. Jr. Is 2024’s X Factor, New Polls Show, Fueled by Young Voters and Social Media 

10. Alliance of Democracies: Democracy Perception Index 2024 

11. PNAS: The effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 election: A deactivation experiment

12. NBC News: Study looks at how Instagram and Facebook breaks affect politics 

13. Business Insider: How Mark Zuckerberg turned against the news 

14. Akadamie: How to fix the broken disinformation research model 

15. Journal Sentinel: After leaving Congress early, Mike Gallagher joins Packers-Microsoft venture capital firm 

16. Podcast Masters: This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler 

17. WIRED: The US Election Threats Are Clear. What to Do About Them Is Anything But

18. The New York Times: E.U. Investigates Meta Over Addictive Social Media Effects on Children 

19. The Current: As U.S. election looms, political advertisers shift to CTV as social media mistrust endures

20. Bipartisan Policy Center: Understanding the Election Administrator Job Market

21. POLITICO: Governments are becoming 'mods.' Here's what they're in for

22. Reuters: Indian journalists turned to YouTube to dodge Modi’s censorship. Some of their channels are now being blocked

23. Cogitatio Press: (Open Access Journal) Facebook Campaigning in the 2019 and 2021 Canadian Federal Elections 

24. Rest of World: In India, the BJP’s WhatsApp strategy powers the political party

25. The New York Times: Russian Disinformation Videos Smear Biden Ahead of U.S. Election

26. The Klonickles: The Anti-TikTok Law 

27. The New York Times: The End of TikTok Is a Win for Beijing

28. Covertly Yours: Angola & Kenya 2022 Elections: Memes, Mercenaries and More. 

29. Oversight Board: Oversight Board’s First New Case From Threads Involves Japanese Prime Minister 

30. Balkan Insight: Turkey’s ‘Foreign Influence Agent Law’ Alarms Media, Civil Society

31. South China Morning Post: Hong Kong should take middle-of-road approach in convincing tech giants to enforce protest song ban, adviser says 

32. The Guardian: ‘He likes scaring people’: how Modi’s right-hand man, Amit Shah, runs India

33. Harvard Law Review: Platform Accountability and Transparency Act, S. 1876, 118th Cong. (2023) 

34. Wall Street Journal: Sunset of Section 230 Would Force Big Tech’s Hand 

35. Financial Times: Big Tech regulatory crackdown spreads to Asia and Australia 

36. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism: Disinformation, But Is Less Useful in the Global South 

37. Google (The Keyword): Building on our commitment to delivering responsible AI 

38. ChatGPT: Introducing GPT-4o 

39. The Washington Post: Sam Feist, longtime CNN executive, will become CEO of C-SPAN

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