Disinfo Docket 22 September
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Highlights
- How Russian-funded fake news network aims to disrupt election in Europe (BBC, 21 September)
- MI5 to advise MPs on how to guard against foreign espionage (Times, 21 September)
- Political Violence Isn’t New. But Something About This Moment Is. (NYT, 19 September)
- For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies (CEIP, 10 September)
- From Washington to Wellington: A study of discourse on Telegram featuring, and targeting ‘Antifa’ (Sanjana Hattotuwa, 18 September)
1. Academia & Research
- Line-up of speakers for the 2025 Aspen Cyber Summit, 18 November
2. Platforms & Technology
- Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company (Guardian, 21 September)
- White House outlines TikTok deal that would give US control of algorithm (BBC, 20 September)
- China's ByteDance will get 1 of 7 board seats for TikTok's US operations, official says (Reuters, 21 September)
- AI False Information Rate Nearly Doubles in One Year (NewsGuard, 4 September)
- I Am Once Again Asking You To Use A Balanced, Evidence-Focused Follow-Up (The Ends of Argument, 17 September)
- How chatbots — and their makers — are enabling AI psychosis (The Verge, 18 September)
- Social media ban trial data reveals racial bias in age checking software: just how inaccurate is it? (Guardian, 18 September)