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DisinfoDocket 11 December

DisinfoDocket curates influence operations-related academic research, news, events and job opportunities.
DisinfoDocket 11 December
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Highlights

  1. Misinformation is the symptom, not the disease (iai, 7 December)
  2. AI art and T-shirt spam: Analysis of a network of inauthentic X accounts that posts AI-generated images and spams popular political accounts with ads for T-shirts (Conspirator Norteńo, 10 December)

1. Academia & Research

  1. How Big Tech is buying influence in academia (Coda Story, 7 December)
  2. Attacked by conservatives, UW misinformation researcher gears up for 2024 (Seattle Times, 10 December)

2. Platforms & Technology

  1. New Study Suggests Right-Wing Bias in YouTube Recommendation Algorithm (Tech Policy Press, 7 December)
  2. Elon Musk's Grok AI Is Pushing Misinformation and Legitimizing Conspiracies (Vice, 8 December)
  3. How social media is fuelling a global learning crisis (SCMP, 10 December)
  4. Child safety groups and prosecutors criticize encryption of Facebook and Messenger (Guardian, 8 December)

X (Twitter)

  1. Elon Musk brings conspiracy theorist Alex Jones back to X following poll (Al Jazeera, 11 December)
  2. Listen: Musk’s War on Free Speech (Slate, 10 December)

3. Russia & Ukraine

  1. Why Wagner is winning hearts in the Central African Republic (BBC, 11 December)
  2. Kremlin’s ‘doppelganger’ propaganda so convincing it is hard to tell from real news (Telegraph, 10 December)

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