Disinfo Docket 14 May

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Highlights

1. 'China-based' hack targets UK companies in 'critical national security threat', says analyst (Sky News, 14 May)
2. Elon Musk’s Grok AI Can’t Stop Talking About ‘White Genocide’ (WIRED, 14 May)
3. Are Europeans Kidnapping Children in Africa? (EUvsDisinfo, 12 May)
4. Misinformation Alleging Cocaine Use Gives European Leaders a Jolt (Bloomberg, 14 May)
5. Accurate information ‘under greater threat than ever’ from misinformation (The Independent, 13 May)

WATCH - Israeli 'bunker buster' bombs used in Gaza hospital strike, experts say (BBC Verify, 14 May)

1. Academia & Research

1. Platform transparency, and real-world change: Key research, and examples (Sanjana Hattotuwa, 14 May)
2. Partisan Fact-Checkers' Warnings Can Effectively Correct Individuals' Misbeliefs About Political Misinformation (arXiv, 12 May)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. Elon Musk’s apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired (The Verge, 14 May)
2. The US–China AI race is forcing countries to reconsider who owns their digital infrastructure (Chatham House, 12 May)
3. Saudi’s new AI firm picks US chipmaker Groq for inference (Semafor, 13 May)

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. Rewriting Bucha Russian governor promotes paratrooper’s story that flips the narrative of one of the invasion’s most documented atrocities (Meduza, 14 May)

🛬 Russian civil aviation was immersed into chaos of delays and cancellation by Ukrainian drones

On May 7-8, days of preparation for Victory day in Moscow and other big cities, Ukraine launched and immense campaign on Russian air traffic

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