Disinfo Docket 23 June
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Highlights
- Israel-Iran war live: Trump floats regime change to ‘make Iran great again’ as region braces for Iranian response to US strikes (Guardian, 23 June)
- Radware reports hybrid warfare as cyberattacks, disinformation escalate in 2025 Israel-Iran conflict (Industrial Cyber, 21 June)
- FDD Uncovers Large Iranian Network Impersonating Israelis on Social Media (FDD, 20 June)
1. Academia & Research
- Uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine and its association with vaccine information and misinformation in Malawi (Nature, 21 June)
- Zombie misinformation: In which some extremely old bad advice goes viral in the days leading up to the No Kings protests (Conspirator Norteño, 20 June)
- ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study (Time, 17 June)
- Sometimes you can just do things (Memetic Warfare, 23 June)
2. Platforms & Technology
- How AI deepfake voice scams are becoming the most insidious threat on the internet (Independent, 22 June)
- The startling truth about Spotify — it’s got a porn problem (Times, 21 June)
- ‘It’s thieving’: impersonators steal elderly people’s TikToks to hawk mass-produced goods (Guardian, 22 June)
- Top AI models will lie, cheat and steal to reach goals, Anthropic finds (AXIOS, 20 June)