Feb. 7 Brookings Event: “Assessing the Impact of Generative AI and Other Online Threats in a Historic Election Year”
Check this out. Great lineup.
Category Archives: cheap speech
“Pro-Biden PAC launches $1 million campaign to pay social media influencers”
Politico:
LaToi Storr, a 42-year-old content creator and lifestyle blogger based in Philadelphia, normally posts Instagram and TikTok videos of local restaurants and skincare tips, mingled with some community-focused material on Black mental health care.
Last fall, she started posting… Continue reading
“Fake Joe Biden robocall tells New Hampshire Democrats not to vote on Tuesday”
NBC News:
A prominent New Hampshire Democrat plans to file a complaint with the state attorney general over an apparent robocall that appears to encourage supporters of President Joe Biden not to vote in Tuesday’s presidential primary.
The voice in… Continue reading
“Elections and Disinformation Are Colliding Like Never Before in 2024”
NYT:
Billions of people will vote in major elections this year — around half of the global population, by some estimates — in one of the largest and most consequential democratic exercises in living memory. The results will affect how… Continue reading
Roger Stone Cashes in Liars Dividend in a Potentially Deadly Context
Mediaite: Exclusive: Roger Stone Spoke With Cop Pal About Assassinating Eric Swalwell and Jerry Nadler:
Weeks before the 2020 presidential election, infamous political operative Roger Stone sat across from his associate Sal Greco at a restaurant in Florida.
At the time, Greco was… Continue reading
Can Trump Campaign From Jail If He’s Held? “Imran Khan deploys AI clone to campaign from behind bars in Pakistan”
The Guardian:
Artificial intelligence allowed Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan to campaign from behind bars on Monday, with a voice clone of the opposition leader giving an impassioned speech on his behalf.
Khan has been locked up since August… Continue reading
“‘Stakes are really high’: misinformation researcher changes tack for 2024 US election”
The Guardian reports, with the subhead: “Kate Starbird says attacks have made research difficult, and claims of bias arise because of prevalence of lies from the right.”
“The Problem of Misinformation in an Era Without Trust”
Jennifer Szalai “critics notebook” review essay for the NYT.
“Regulating AI Deepfakes and Synthetic Media in the Political Arena”
New analysis from the Brennan Center, echoing many of the recommendations I made in Cheap Speech.
“Your Local Newspaper Might Not Have a Single Reporter; Rise of ‘ghost newsrooms’ spawns effort by local news startups to fill the void”
WSJ:
The Gleaner, the local newspaper in Henderson, Ky., has sections focused on features, sports, news and opinion.
What it doesn’t have: a single reporter on staff.
The publication is one of the “ghost newsrooms” that increasingly dot the… Continue reading
Out Today: The Paperback Edition of Cheap Speech
I’m pleased to share that the paperback edition of Cheap Speech is out today, and it seems more relevant than ever with concerns about generative AI’s potential for creating deep fakes affecting elections:
An informed and practical road map for… Continue reading
Watch Archived Video of SDP Webinar, “Covering the Risks to Elections on the State and Local Level: Views from the Beat Reporters” with Pam Fessler, Jonathan Lai, Carrie Levine, Patrick Marley, and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez
Great discussion that you can watch here:
“Meta Allows Ads Claiming Rigged 2020 Election on Facebook, Instagram”
WSJ:
Meta Platforms will let political ads on Facebook and Instagram question the legitimacy of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, one of several changes the social-media company and other platforms have made to loosen constraints on campaign advertising for… Continue reading
“Meta will require campaigns to disclose use of AI in political ads”
WaPo:
Meta will require political campaigns to disclose their use of artificial intelligence in political ads, a new policy that could shape how the new technology is used in the 2024 elections.
The Wednesday announcement, first reported by Reuters… Continue reading