In the run up to elections taking place around the world in 2024, Meta, Twitter, and YouTube have collectively removed 17 policies aimed at guarding against hate speech and disinformation.
https://time.com/6967334/ai-elections-disinformation-meta-tiktok/?s=09
Disinformation Deciphered: The Media Manipulation Casebook is a digital research platform linking together theory, methods, and practice for mapping media manipulation and disinformation campaigns. This resource is intended for researchers, journalists, technologists, policymakers, educators, and civil society organizers who want to learn about detecting, documenting, describing, and debunking misinformation, disinformation, and media manipulation.https://mediamanipulation.org/?fbclid=IwAR10W1D450dGohDX0RBGZTM98Tcj5XE_E1vsXMQk3se59euoWq3u9KV_hSg
Israel specifically targets IT experts, tech hubs and digital business incubators as part of its genocidal destruction of Gaza's cultural and commercial life. #DigitalRights
https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6228?s=09
The film "Phantom Parrot" is a cautionary tale about British Digital Authoritarianism. Schedule 7 of the UK's 2000 Terrorism Act, gives the police powers to search people at UK borders, without needing reasonable grounds for suspicion of terrorism.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/12/phantom-parrot-review-cautionary-tale-of-state-surveillance-and-the-war-on-privacy
Wow! This short speech at the UN about Palestine and international law. It may come back to haunt all politicians if decisive action is not immediate.
https://x.com/ousmannoor/status/1760595667641057720?t=xB1bSAF5jR_xRgu24Qwozg&s=09
Disinformation Diarrhea from Israeli military causes US Intelligence to downgrade trust in its reliability, which is a passive aggressive way of saying they repeatedly lied about UNRWA staff, about bombing the hospital, about 40 beheaded babies, mass rape etc.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/22/us-intelligence-unrwa-hamas?s=09
New report from Access Now calls on Meta/ Facebook to stop their racially discriminatory practice of censoring Palestinian content on their social media sites. #DigitalRights
https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/meta-systematic-censorship-palestinian-voices/?s=09
How Israel uses the 4IL app and other 'digital diplomacy' techniques in Habara2.0 to distort public perception and discourse around Israeli war crimes, illegal settlements, apartheid and genocide.
https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/the-art-of-deception-how-israel-uses-hasbara-to-whitewash-its-crimes-12766404
Facebook takes down hundreds of fake accounts created by Italian surveillance companies using AI-generated profile photos used to spy on journalists and activists.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/02/14/ai-spies-on-facebook-instagram-meta-warns/?s=09
Bodily #surveillance has exponentially increased leading to resistance and protest. New report unpacks body scanning tech.
https://everythingfine.org/en/berlin-09-2022/digital-panic-outer/bodily/?s=09
Disinformation laws across Sub-Saharan Africa explorable using this interactive tool.
https://lexota.org/
Musk's implants brain chip in human as part of Neuralink initiative.
https://www.dw.com/en/musks-neuralink-implants-brain-chip-in-first-human/a-68118587?s=09
Facial recognition cameras disproportionately working class people in deprived areas, according to a privacy rights group. Meanwhile corporate crime and COVID contract corruption remains a low priority and perpetrators go largely unpunished.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/27/facial-recognition-cameras-in-supermarkets-targeted-at-poor-areas-in-england
Predatory loan apps are thriving in the Google Play store, despite ban.
https://restofworld.org/2024/google-play-store-scam-loan-apps/?s=09
Deepfake Dictator: digital disinformation shared by Indonesian political party Golkar “resurrects” late president Suharto to call on citizens to vote for Golkar in February's general election. #disinformation #digitalRights
https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/indonesian/suharto-deepfake-used-in-election-campaign-01122024135217.html
Electronic Intifada: Israeli Generals conclude “that the freedom of more than 100 Israeli hostages still in Gaza can be secured only through diplomatic rather than military means,” according to the Times.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-losing-war-gaza-commanders-admit?s=09
Article on starvation as a weapon of war
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-01-10-israels-genocidal-use-of-starvation-as-a-weapon-of-war-in-gaza/
Must Watch: ten minute video explains how it is possible to commit literally every war crime that exists in international law in plain sight with complete impunity. Lara Elborno
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6e_woWJ3q8o&feature=shared