Disinfo Docket 15 September
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Highlights
- First Romania, Now Israel: Pro-Russian AI Disinformation Campaign Preps for Israeli Election (Haaretz, 14 September)
- RFK Jr.'s HHS Moves to Falsely Link Vaccines to Child Deaths by Misrepresenting Data (Info Epi Lab, 13 September)
- Lessons from Nepal on the High Cost of Controlling Online Expression (Tech Policy Press, 12 September)
- Chinese cyber skirmishes in the Indo-Pacific show emerging patterns of conflict (ASPI, 15 September)
1. Charlie Kirk
- Charlie Kirk mourned by a global right he influenced (Washington Post, 13 September)
- False claims about Charlie Kirk’s shooting are flooding social media. Here’s the truth (Independent, 13 September)
- How Charlie Kirk’s social media machine rewired a generation’s politics (Washington Post, 13 September)
- Charlie Kirk’s murder and its aftermath are symptoms of a fragile democracy (Washington Post, 14 September)
- Shocked by Charlie Kirk’s murder, these students yearn for civil discourse (Washington Post, 14 September)
- What Does Posting About Charlie Kirk Really Say About You? (NYT, 13 September)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Musk’s Grok AI bot falsely suggests police misrepresented footage of far-right rally in London (Guardian, 14 September)
- The AI-Scraping Free-for-All Is Coming to an End The web would like to make a deal. (Intelligencer, 14 September)
- AI images fuelling anti-immigration rhetoric (Times, 14 September)
- Trump seen again pushing deadline on TikTok sale or divestment (Reuters, 15 September)
- Why LLMs Conflate Images (And How to Work Around It) (The Ends of Argument, 15 September)
- Why OpenAI’s solution to AI hallucinations would kill ChatGPT tomorrow (The Conversation, 12 September)