Disinfo Docket 18 August
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Highlights
- Israel Says Iranian Agents Recruited Dozens of Its Citizens (NYT, 17 August)
- Christian Militants Are Using Instagram to Recruit—and Becoming Influencers in the Process (Wired, 14 August)
- My Brother in Zhongguo (Memetic Warfare, 18 August)
1. Academia & Research
- The curious case of the Tesla Tiny House spam (Conspirator Norteño, 15 August)
- Psychological inoculation improves resilience to and reduces willingness to share vaccine misinformation (Nature, 18 August)
- ‘Shut it down and start again’: staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis (Guardian, 18 August)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Alternate Approaches To AI Safeguards: Meta Versus Anthropic (Forbes, 17 August)
- Chatbot therapists are here. But who’s keeping them in line? (Times, 16 August)
- The C.E.O. of Duolingo Wants to Have a Conversation About A.I. (NYT, 17 August)
- They’re Stuffed Animals. They’re Also A.I. Chatbots. (NYT, 15 August)
- Japan to train 30,000 African students in AI to spur development (Nikkei, Asia, 16 August)