Disinfo Docket 27 November
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Below the paywall today -
* Four in 10 UK adults encountered misinformation in a single month, Ofcom says
* Anti-vax update as Canadian measles surges
* AI-generated slop is quietly conquering the internet. Is it a threat to journalism or a problem that will fix itself?
* Four in 10 UK adults encountered misinformation in a single month, Ofcom says
* Anti-vax update as Canadian measles surges
* AI-generated slop is quietly conquering the internet. Is it a threat to journalism or a problem that will fix itself?
Highlights
- Post Doctoral Associate - Psychology of Climate Change (University of Miami)
- Search is the Next Battle Front in the Information Wars (Tech Policy Press, 27 November)
- Citizen journalists, fact-checking initiatives hold news channels accountable in India (IJNet, 25 November)
- Neither humans-in-the-loop nor transparency labels will save the news media when it comes to AI (Reuters Institute, 21 November)
- Is 2025 The Year We Fight Back Against Disinformation And Deception? (Forbes, 27 November)
WATCH - Reporters Without Borders on debunking Russian propaganda and fake news (France24, 21 November)
1. Academia & Research
- MCGAN—a cutting edge approach to real time investigate of multimedia deepfake multi collaboration of deep generative adversarial networks with transfer learning (Nature, 26 November)
- Misinformation really does spread like a virus, suggest mathematical models drawn from epidemiology (LSE, 26 November)
- After Trump’s victory, Democrats are more pessimistic about their party’s future (Pew Research, 22 November)
2. Platforms & Technology
- List of organisations supposedly leaving X is mostly wrong (Full Fact, 27 November)
- Universities Are Woefully Under-Resourced For AI Research. They’re Fighting To Change That. (Big Technology, 22 November)
- Where Does Power Consolidate on Bluesky? (Tech Policy Press, 27 November)
- From Bannon to Musk: The decade that made misinformation the new normal (El Pais, 25 November)