Disinfo Docket 21 July

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Highlights

1. How the QAnon movement entered mainstream politics – and why the silence on Epstein files matters (The Conversation, 19 July)
2. UK sanctions Russian spies for malicious activity (BBC, 18 July)

1. Academia & Research

1. Why people share misinformation on social media? An integration of affordance and flow theories (Nature, 19 July)
2. Want to make millions with AI? These books probably won't help. (Conspirator Norteño, 19 July)
3. Aeza Antics (Memetic Warfare, 21 July)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. AI guzzled millions of books without permission. Authors are fighting back. (Washington Post, 19 July)
2. Global hack on Microsoft product hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say (Washington Post, 20 July)
3. We've Issued Our First IP Address Certificate (Let's Encrypt, 1 July)

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. Terrorism prosecutions triple as Russia silences opposition to war (Times, 20 July)
2. Decoding Secrets Through Symbols: How Military Insignia Revealed Russia’s Hidden SIGINT Network (Check First, 18 July)
3. Global operation targets NoName057(16) pro-Russian cybercrime network (Europol, 18 July)