Disinfo Docket 23 July

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Highlights

1. Physics reveals and explains patterns in conflict casualties (IOP Science, 16 July)
2. Manufacturing reality: How pro-Russian TikTok accounts promote Donbas’s revival (DFR Lab, 21 July)
3. UK does not need to hold inquiry into Russian disinformation, ECHR rules (The Guardian, 22 July)
4. Platforms’ policies on climate change misinformation (V2) (EU Disinfo Lab, 21 July)

WATCH - What to know about the rise of mental health misinformation on social media (PBS, 22 July)

1. Academia & Research

1. Misinformation identification as a digital literacy skill in an ultra-orthodox community: an eye tracking study (Nature, 23 July)
2. Chameleon Channels: Measuring YouTube Accounts Repurposed for Deception and Profit (arXiv, 21 July)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. Google backs away from search result snippets that address falsehoods (Poynter, 21 July)
2. Elon Musk’s X fails to deal with Russian disinformation, breaching EU rules, study says (Euronews, 23 July)
3. Disinformation now has a new channel – AI chatbots (The Straits Times, 23 July)
4. YouTube removes nearly 11,000 propaganda channels linked to China, Russia, others (Rappler, 23 July)
5. Rethinking Speech Rights in the Era of Corporate Information Control (Tech Policy Press, 23 July)
6. Microsoft servers hacked by Chinese groups, says tech giant (BBC, 23 July)