DisinfoDocket 22 October

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Highlights

1. Why American values are changing when it comes to our health (CNN, 20 October)
2. The bear and the bot farm: Countering Russian hybrid warfare in Africa (European Council on Foreign Relations, 22 October)
3. JD Vance blames the left for political violence. Decades of data tell another story. (Poynter, 22 October)

LISTEN - Russian mind games: strategic comms guru Natalia Solieva on Moscow’s attempts to gaslight the world (ASPI, 16 October)

1. Academia & Research

1. Introduction to Online Complexity: The New Social Physics of Extremes, Misinformation, and AI (Oxford Academic, September)
2. Educational myths among teachers: prevalence and refutational intervention for belief change (Nature, 22 October)

2. Platforms & Technology

WATCH - Musk's Grok misleads internet users about anti-Trump 'No Kings' protests (France24, 21 October)

1. State attorneys general stepping up privacy enforcement, watchdog finds (The Record, 22 October)
2. AI chatbots fail at accurate news, major study reveals (DW, 21 October)

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. From summit to no summit: How Trump’s planned meeting with Putin on European soil unraveled within days (Meduza, 22 October)
2. How Trump can apply his Middle East success to ending Russia’s war in Ukraine (Atlantic Council, 20 October)