NYT:
Misleading photographs, videos and text have spread widely on social media as protests against immigrant raids have unfolded in Los Angeles, rehashing old conspiracy theories and expressing support for President Trump’s actions.
The flood of falsehoods online appeared intended… Continue reading
Time:
Google’s recently launched AI video tool can generate realistic clips that contain misleading or inflammatory information about news events, according to a TIME analysis and several tech watchdogs.
TIME was able to use Veo 3 to create realistic videos,… Continue reading
I mentioned Mexico’s historic upcoming judicial elections a few days ago, but hadn’t then focused on the campaign finance regime. Now the NYT digs a little deeper:
They weren’t allowed to buy ads on television, radio, billboards or… Continue reading
NYT:
The news reports chronicled India’s overwhelming successes: Indian attacks had struck a Pakistani nuclear base, downed two Pakistani fighter jets and blasted part of Pakistan’s Karachi port, the country’s oil and trade lifeline.
Each piece of information was highly… Continue reading
NYT:
The Trump administration has sharply expanded its campaign against experts who track misinformation and other harmful content online, abruptly canceling scores of scientific research grants at universities across the country.
The grants funded research into topics like ways to… Continue reading
Politico:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday announced the closure of the agency’s hub for fighting foreign disinformation campaigns — the final nail in a yearslong effort to shut down the office accused by GOP lawmakers of censoring conservative… Continue reading
Season 6, Episode 7 of the ELB Podcast:
How did campaigning and false information in campaigns change in the 2024 elections?
What role did platform content moderation play in 2024?
Is generative AI going to change campaigns in 2028 and… Continue reading
Spencer Overton has posted this draft (which I can’t wait to read) on SSRN (forthcoming, Utah Law Review). Here is the abstract:
Over the past two decades—as the United States has grown more ethnically diverse—the U.S. Supreme Court has dismantled… Continue reading
Looking forward to this (free registration required):
Monday, March 31, 12:15pm-1:15pm PT, WebinarAlice Marwick, Director of Research, Data & Society, UNC Chapel Hill, Kate Starbird, University of Washington, and Joshua Tucker, NYU.Richard L. Hasen, moderator (Director, Safeguarding Democracy… Continue reading
Looking forward to speaking at this event (in person only):
Recently, the law of free speech has been marked by two seemingly inconsistent phenomena. On the one hand, the Roberts Court has been both praised and decried for its highly… Continue reading
ProPublica:
Hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, users spread a false claim on Facebook that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was paying a bounty for reports of undocumented people.
“BREAKING — ICE is allegedly offering $750 per illegal… Continue reading