Disinfo Docket 16 July
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* TikTok’s messy merger in Indonesia could be a preview of what’s to come in the U.S.
* Trump officials address ‘chemtrails’ conspiracy theories while spreading misinformation, experts say
* From selling peanuts to saving lives: Researcher uses AI to combat health misinformation across Africa...
* TikTok’s messy merger in Indonesia could be a preview of what’s to come in the U.S.
* Trump officials address ‘chemtrails’ conspiracy theories while spreading misinformation, experts say
* From selling peanuts to saving lives: Researcher uses AI to combat health misinformation across Africa...
Highlights
- An Indian State’s Proposals to Regulate Speech Get It Wrong (Tech Policy Press, 14 July)
- AI chatbot ‘MechaHitler’ could be making content considered violent extremism, expert witness tells X v eSafety case (The Guardian, 15 July)
- NSA: Volt Typhoon was ‘not successful’ at persisting in critical infrastructure (The Record, 15 July)
- 5 key facts about wildfires and clean air policies (Stanford University, 14 July)
- Large language models as disrupters of misinformation (Nature, 16 July)
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1. Academia & Research
- Artificial Intelligence and Journalism: A Systematic Bibliometric and Thematic Analysis of Global Research (arXiv, 15 July)
2. Platforms & Technology
- I blew up on TikTok with journalism — here's how you can, too (IJNet, 15 July)
- “It’s a devil’s machine.”: Georgia's first female bishop had an unsettling encounter with AI. It prompted her to ask if tech evangelists have misunderstood what it means to be human (Coda Story, 15 July)
- WeTransfer says files not used to train AI after backlash (BBC, 15 July)
- How do you stop an AI model turning Nazi? What the Grok drama reveals about AI training (The Conversation, 14 July)
3. Russia & Ukraine
- Russian lawmakers propose fines for ‘searching for extremist materials’ online and advertising VPNs (Meduza, 16 July)
- Whack-a-mole warfare: Europe’s battle against AI-fuelled Kremlin lies (Euractiv, 14 July)
- American who spied for Kremlin from inside Ukraine receives Russian citizenship (The Kyiv Independent, 16 July)