5 November 2025
DisinfoDocket curates influence operations- related academic research, news, events and job opportunities
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* AI chatbots are spewing Russian propaganda, study finds
* From Latin America, emerging models for AI in media
* How science journalists worldwide are fighting White House health misinformation...
Highlights
- Next Steps for Mitigating Harm in the UN Cybercrime Convention (Tech Policy Press, 3 November)
- FactChecking Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Interview (FactCheck, 4 November)
- Media literacy, not AI machines, will define journalism (Euractiv, 29 October)
- MP wants Elon Musk's chatbot shut down over claim he enabled grooming gangs (BBC, 5 November)
'We need media literacy': James O'Brien on Labour's new curriculum (LBC)
1. Academia & Research
- A perspective on friction interventions to curb the spread of misinformation (Nature, 3 November)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Grok and Google Lens AI overviews claim fake imagery shows Huntingdon train attack (Full Fact, 5 November)
- The Werewolf game: an interview with Google’s former news chief Richard Gingras (Coda Story, 2 November)
3. Russia & Ukraine
- How Putin beat Russia’s nationalists at their own game: Also, RFE/RL finds new evidence that the Kremlin lies about the president’s office work. (Meduza, 4 November)