Disinfo Docket 14 July

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Highlights

1. Country Report: Assessment of Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) in the 2025 German Federal Election (FIMI-ISAC)
2. Turn Off Your F@$king Phone: But not for the reason you think (Cyber Shorthanded, 11 July)

1. Academia & Research

1. Guest Post: Hash Slinging Slasher (Memetic Warfare, 12 July)
2. EVENT: Disinformation & Misinformation: Current Happenings in Japan, the U.S. and Beyond (Temple University, 14 July)
3. NUS researchers tried to influence AI-generated peer reviews by hiding prompt in paper (CNA, 10 July)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. ‘Scamazon’ – how fake emails are targeting Prime subscribers (Guardian, 13 July)
2. X ordered its Grok chatbot to ‘tell like it is.’ Then the Nazi tirade began. (Washington Post, 12 July)
3. Grok Chatbot Mirrored X Users’ ‘Extremist Views’ in Antisemitic Posts, xAI Says (NYT, 12 July)
4. SpaceX to Invest $2 Billion Into Elon Musk’s xAI (WSJ, 12 July)
5. Hacker Impersonating Elmo Made Antisemitic X Posts (NYT, 14 July)
6. France launches criminal investigation into Musk’s X over algorithm manipulation (Politico, 11 July)
7. Meta’s Joel Kaplan: UK can lead in AI, if it avoids Brussels’ failures (Times, 12 July)
8. A TikTok creator has urged social media users to be more aware of disinformation after a video claiming she was dead was watched 650,000 times. (BBC,

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. Whack-a-mole warfare: Europe’s battle against AI-fuelled Kremlin lies (Euractiv, 14 July)
2. UK is No 1 target for Russian cyberattacks since Trump’s election (Times, 13 July)