Studying confluence of influence operations, disinfo, truth decay, information integrity & policies addressing online harms. Many thoughts, sometimes prayers.
Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa
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Legislating in the shadow of loss: Privacy, surveillance, and the targeting of dissent in Sri Lanka’s draft #Cybersecurity Act of 2023
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#SriLanka
The report in question is here:
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@kylermatthews.bsky.social @l11p.bsky.social @dailyindignation.bsky.social @samsachdeva.bsky.social
Sometimes shame works, folks.
Attackers have been impersonating Signal’s support team to try to fool users into handing over account access. Now they’re targeting Signal users via backup recovery codes. Fortunately, it’s easy to stop them.
Read more in our digital security newsletter.
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa
SMF quantifies the scale and nature of ‘fake news’ in local online spaces, and what policymakers can do to combat it.
"Political speech by [Winston Peters] one of the country’s most senior, and recognised politicians recasts institutions as enemies, and then leaves comment ecologies, and online grievance economies to drive the charge upward, from disagreement into betrayal, capture, treason or criminality." #nzpol
Now there are yet more reasons to look out for Signal Support scams
Boring headline by Stuff masks a very good, nuanced piece by Stacey Wood around the Gordian Knot of media regulation in today’s information environment. | Chief of axed Broadcasting Standards Authority says New Zealand still needs a media referee www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609... #nzpol
On the trail of the Christchurch terrorist, and what he told us first www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609... #nzpol
‘Killer of trust’: social media groups fuel misinformation in UK, report finds www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
New Zealand, WHO, and the conversion of disinformation into foreign policy
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#nzpol #WHO #Disinformation
A reflection on, and inspired by @marcdaalder.bsky.social's recent Newsroom article. Foreign affairs officials endorsed WHO health rules before Peters rejected them newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/03/f... #nzpol
‘Killer of trust’: social media groups fuel misinformation in UK, report finds www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
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NEW: Days after WIRED revealed that Meta had embedded an unreleased facial-recognition system in software distributed to more than 50 million users, the company appears to have removed it.
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Investigation reveals more than 4.4 million people live in ‘news deserts’ that lack dedicated local reporting
New Zealand, WHO, and the conversion of disinformation into foreign policy
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#nzpol #WHO #Disinformation
Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa
The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.
Important questions remain over the future shape of media safeguards in New Zealand, writes Broadcasting Standards Authority chief executive Stacey Wood.
