The US Treasury sanctions Iranian and Russian entities over attempted election interference, including a Moscow entity that directed the creation of deepfakes
The Treasury Department said Iran and Russia sought to divide Americans through targeted disinformation campaigns in the 2024 elections.
Meta adds safety features to CrowdTangle for use during the EU elections, in a bid to address EU concerns over Meta's plan to shut down the tool in August 2024
CrowdTangle (a platform transparency tool for Facebook) has been re-enabled through 2024 elections in EU member states. @mozilla & @brandonsilverm led a letter calling for this in March, after FB trie...
Boosted by Taiwan's 2024 elections, Threads has revived its popularity in the country; Sensor Tower says Threads is Taiwan's most downloaded social app
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OpenAI shares its plans ahead of 2024 elections, including image provenance tools and not letting users make tools for impersonation or political campaigning
Here's How OpenAI Plans to Fight It PYMNTS.com : OpenAI to Implement Digital Credentials to Prevent Misuse in Elections Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE : OpenAI announces steps to prevent its generative ...
Despite the focus on generative AI misinformation, policy discourse ignores that politicians pose the gravest misinformation threat, ahead of big 2024 elections
As we head into a big election year, beware the risks of misleading statements from those at very top X: @fascinatorfun , @jpeterburger , @prateekwaghre , @katray , @rasmus_kleis , @risj_oxford , @ace...
Pro-government news outlets and influencers in Bangladesh are promoting AI-generated disinformation created with cheap tools ahead of the January 2024 elections
Benjamin Parkin / Financial Times : X: @1br0wn , @areeqchowdhury , @tobywalsh , and @valayism X: Ian Brown / @1br0wn : “It's easy for a politician to say, ‘This is deepfake’, or 'This is #AI-generate...
Ahead of India's 2024 elections, some politicians are using voice cloning tools to send personalized messages and AI songs featuring Modi are gaining traction
my latest for @restofworld https://restofworld.org/... Sagar Vishnoi / @sagarvishnoi : Got quoted in @restofworld on how AI is changing Indian politics. Over last few weeks, Modi's digitally rendered ...
Taiwan VP Lai Ching-te assails China's Foxconn investigation; sources say China disclosed the move for political reasons tied to Taiwan's January 2024 elections
EU study: social media companies have failed to stop pro-Russian disinformation since 2022 and the “reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts” grew in 2023
X's failure to slow the spread of disinformation on the Internet would have violated E.U. social media law, had it been in effect — https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... X: Daphne Keller / @daphnehk :...
How Meta and YouTube, battered by content moderation wars, are following X in retreating from policing political misinformation, raising US 2024 election fears
Following Elon Musk's lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation — Facebook and YouTube are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential ele...