Disinfo Docket 25 June

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Highlights

1. The people who clean up your TikTok feed are starting to fight back (Rest of World, 25 June)
2. Childhood vaccines were a global success story. Misinformation and other obstacles are slowing that progress, a study shows (CNN, 24 June)
3. Why does Germany pay taxes for Russian propaganda? (DW, 25 June)
4. 'Our sister died of cancer because of our mum's conspiracy theories' (BBC, 23 June)

WATCH - How to handle misinformation without starting a fight (CBS, 25 June)

1. Academia & Research

1. To fight Ebola misinformation, AI mines old-tech radio data (Nature, 23 June)
2. Evaluating Compliance with Visualization Guidelines in Diagrams for Scientific Publications Using Large Vision Language Models (arXiv, 24 June)
3. The truth is still worth fighting for: As fact-checkers gather in Rio this week, the fight for information integrity has never been more urgent (Poynter, 25 June)

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2. Platforms & Technology

1. Europe’s Regulatory Failure on Generative AI and Mental Health (Tech Policy Press, 25 June)
2. Who is most at risk from the billions of leaked Facebook and Google passwords? (Rest of World, 25 June)
3. The Wiretap: Google AI Is At The Center Of An Iran-Israel Disinformation War (Forbes, 24 June)

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. The Telegram channels spreading pro-Russian propaganda in Poland (BBC, 24 June)
2. Russia’s military history: never in the wrong (EUvsDisinfo, 24 June)
3. ‘The bureau’s niche project’: Meduza reveals how the FSB gave rise to wartime Russia’s most notorious far-right group (Meduza, 24 June)