Monday’s Must Read List

Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-

1. Israeli Army Employs Popular Blogger for Psyops on Social Media (Haaretz Newspaper)
2. Taliban’s Afghanistan takeover presents fresh challenge for social media companies (Reuters)
3. Deepfakes Are Now Making Business Pitches (Wired)
4. How a Technology Revolution Powered the Taliban’s Return (Bloomberg)
5. Musk’s ‘AI Day’ confronts tough questions about Tesla’s technology (Reuters)
6. Tech Can’t Fix It: Climate change and other big problems won’t be solved by tech alone (The New York Times)
7. TikTok questioned over biometric data collection (TechCrunch)
8. Ransomware poses threat to vulnerable local governments (The Washington Post)
9. FTC sues Facebook for antitrust violations again (Politico)

Some light reading- The Romanovs: 1613-1918, by Simon Sebag Montefiore