What I'm Reading - 6/9/24

This is my last weekend on the shore until after the July 4th holiday. I’m off to San Francisco tonight for a week, and then go to Wisconsin. I’ll do some housekeeping next week schedule-wise, as I will take one or two weeks off (though we’re still waiting for some Supreme Court arguments to come down, so who knows).

Have a great Sunday!

What I’m Reading

1. Anthropic: Testing and mitigating elections-related risks

2. Meta: How Meta Is Preparing for the 2024 UK General Election 

3. Tech Congress: TechCongress AI Safety Fellowship 

4. AI Policy Perspectives: The AI Policy Atlas 

5. Center for Media Engagement: Political Machines: Understanding the Role of AI in the U.S. 2024 Elections and Beyond 

6. World Standards Cooperation: Standards collaboration on AI watermarking, multimedia authenticity and deepfake detection 

7. The Information: How AI Can Upend the Internet Ad Model

8. Axios: Exclusive: Agencies tussle over AI election disclaimers 

9. NBC: How AI is changing elections around the world 

10. POLITICO: India, Mexico, South Africa Went to the Polls. Here’s What We Learned. 

11. The New York Times: A Small Army Combating a Flood of Deepfakes in India’s Election

12. NPR: Russian propaganda in 2024 includes deepfakes, sham websites and social media swarms

13. BBC: TikTok users being fed misleading election news, BBC finds 

14. Scroll: Lok Sabha elections 2024: The story of the rise and fall of the Election Commission of India  

15. Scroll: CEC on Modi’s anti-Muslim speeches: ‘We decided not to touch top two leaders of BJP and Congress’ 

16. The Irish Times: Election ads on TikTok breach company’s rules and EU code

17. DFR Lab: Regulating the use of AI for Brazilian elections: what’s at stake 

18. The Washington Post: Claudia Sheinbaum elected Mexico’s first female president

19. POLITICO: WhatsApp Channels used by millions has no clear election rules

20. The Bulwark: Influencers, Bullshitters, and How We Lost a Shared Reality 

21. Platformer: The misinformation panic may be over 

22. POLITICO: A glimpse at an alternative TikTok 

23. Chronicle: Is Misinformation Expert Joan Donovan Spreading Misinformation? 

24. Nature: Misinformation poses a bigger threat to democracy than you might think 

25. Blackbird.AI: Trust & Safety: Navigating Social Media Integrity in an Election Yea 

26. TechPolicy.Press: The One Simple Trick to Measuring Abuse in Tech’s $440 Billion Ads Business 

27. WIRED: You Think You Know How Misinformation Spreads? Welcome to the Hellhole of Programmatic Advertising

28. POLITICO: When generative AI gets political 

29. The Hill: Trump joins TikTok, surpassing Biden campaign's followers

30. NOTUS (Allbritton Journalism Institute): How a Drop in Small-Dollar Donations Is Shaking Up Both Parties

31. IWMF: Newsroom Safety Across America 

32. Cato Institute: A Guide to Content Moderation for Policymakers 

33. European Democracy Hub: The Future of European Electoral Support

34. Roll Call: Election officials, retired lawmakers plead for more money to protect voting 

35. Axios: "Not your mom's Facebook:" Inside Meta's plan to win back the youth

36. Ctrl-Alt-Speech Podcast: The Internet is (Still) for Porn, with Yoel Roth

37. The New York Times: OpenAI Whistle-Blowers Describe Reckless and Secretive Culture

38. FSI: How Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior continues on Social Platforms 

39. International Social Science Journal | Early View: The old king is dead, long live the algorithmic king – the decline of Facebook and the rise of TikTok – comparative study of algorithmic design of social media platforms 

40. Nature: Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation

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