3 November 2025
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* Right-wing media outlets are claiming regime change in Venezuela would be easy. Evidence and history suggest otherwise.
* What photos and videos can tell us about the El-Fasher massacres
* Under-nines exposed to Nazi and jihadist propaganda on Roblox...
Highlights
- With Grokipedia, Top-Down Control of Knowledge Is New Again (Tech Policy Press, 3 November)
- Weaponising climate change to undermine the West (EUvsDisinfo, 30 October)
- Investigation finds 172 false claim instances during Presidential Election (RTE, 3 November)
- The internet is full of bad menopause advice. Here's how to spot it (Axios, 2 November)
1. Academia & Research
- Trust in institutions and misinformation susceptibility both independently explain vaccine skepticism (Nature, 28 October)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Your AI butler will serve you “factslop”: How zero click hurts the consumer, and the newsrooms LLMs depend on (Reuters Institute, 3 November)
- Finding Meaning in Human Lives (Coda Story, 3 November)
3. Russia & Ukraine
- Grokipedia vs. Ruwiki Elon Musk’s Wikipedia rival uses AI to push its creator’s views — something Moscow already tried. Meduza compares the results. (Meduza, 30 October)