Turkey passes a “disinformation” law ahead of its 2023 elections, mandating jail time for sharing online content deemed “false information” by authorities (Bloomberg)

Jack Schickler / CoinDesk:
A Netherlands court finds Tornado Cash developer Alexey Perstev is a flight risk and must remain in jail until February 20, 2023; Perstev was jailed in August  —  Pertsev has been in Dutch prison since August, accused of facilitating money laundering for his work on the U.S. Treasury-sanctioned app.

Kevin Collier / NBC News:
Disinformation campaigns use text messages ahead of the 2022 US midterms; in Kansas, voters got texts falsely saying a “yes” vote would protect abortion access  —  The biggest election disinformation event of the 2022 midterm primaries was not an elaborate Russian troll scheme that played out on Twitter or Facebook.

Ian Talley / Wall Street Journal:
US intelligence officials worry that the Islamic State could use NFTs to spread messages and evade censorship, after IS posted its first NFT following an attack  —  National-security analysts see potentially dangerous platform for recruiting and funding  —  WASHINGTON—A simple digital …

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
A subreddit with 1.5M members, r/PoliticalHumor, challenges Texas’ content moderation law by mandating that comments include “Greg Abbott is a little piss baby”  —  Last year, I tried to create a “test suite” of websites that any new internet regulation ought to be “tested” against.

Jack Nicas / New York Times:
Brazil’s elections chief gets unilateral power to order the removal of online posts ahead of October 30 election, in an aggressive move to combat misinformation  —  Brazilian authorities granted the country’s elections chief broad power to order the takedown of online content in a bid …

ProPublica:
Analysis reveals how Google’s ad business funnels revenue to prolific purveyors of health, election, and climate disinfo in Europe, Latin America, and Africa  —  Google is funneling revenue to some of the web’s most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found.