Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa
Studying confluence of influence operations, disinfo, truth decay, information integrity & policies addressing online harms. Many thoughts, sometimes prayers.
- Studied 1,000s of comments across dozens of posts on social media around the anti-immigration rally in Auckland over the weekend, incl. speech by Brian Tamaki. TLDR; it's an imported, Trumpian, far-right rhetoric. Of significant concern are attempts to undermine this year's electoral integrity.
- Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double by 2030 from 2020, including in places that face shortages. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/t...
