Disinfo Docket 28 April

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Highlights

1. With a Bounty on His Head, a Critic of China Runs in Canada’s Election (NYT, 27 April)
2. Austrian far right triples result in Vienna election (Euractiv, 27 April)
3. What political ads are Australians seeing online? Astroturfing, fake grassroots groups, and outright falsehoods (The Conversation, 28 April)
4. Don't call it a comeback: Three years later, extremists are still obsessed with me (Wiczipedia, 28 April)

1. Academia & Research

1. AI-Generated Disinformation in Europe and Africa (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2025)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. Wide-ranging decisions protect speech and address harms (Oversight Board, 23 April)
2. Bot farms invade social media to hijack popular sentiment (Fast Company, 24 April)
3. Apple and Meta attack 'unfair' €700m EU fines (BBC, 23 April)

AI

1. Our Approach to Understanding and Addressing AI Harms (Anthropic, 21 April)
2. ChatGPT adds Washington Post content to growing list of OpenAI media deals (CNBC, 22 April)
3. How to talk to your chatbot: Does being polite or rude affect the speed or accuracy with which a large language model responds to basic math questions? (Conspirator Norteño, 26 April)