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Disinfo Docket 29 January

DisinfoDocket curates influence operations-related academic research, news, events and job opportunities.
Disinfo Docket 29 January
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Good evening! Below the paywall today:
* RFK Jr and Democrats clash over his vaccine history in confirmation hearing
* The Kremlin’s misuse of Nazism as a weapon of information manipulation
* What Ireland can learn from Finnish schools in tackling disinformation...

Highlights

  1. ‘Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research (Nature, 27 January)
  2. DeepSeek is a modern Sputnik moment for West (ASPI, 29 January)
  3. A Decision on Content Moderation Systems, After All (Tech Policy Press, 29 January)
  4. In a chaotic Senate hearing, RFK Jr. insists that some of his best friends are vaccines (The Independent, 29 January)

1. Academia & Research

  1. Inoculation reduces social media engagement with affectively polarized content in the UK and US (Nature, 26 January)
  2. Selected Insights from Graphika’s ATLAS Intelligence Reporting on Chinese State Influence Actors and Adjacent Communities (Graphika, 29 January)
  3. Right-wing media are split on RFK Jr.’s nomination to lead HHS (Media Matters for America, 28 January)

2. Platforms & Technology

  1. DeepSeek’s Popular AI App Is Explicitly Sending US Data to China (WIRED, 27 January)
  2. Meta’s user fact-checking is just ‘window dressing’ without a commitment to truth (Poynter, 29 January)
  3. What Deepseek may mean for the future of journalism and generative AI (Reuters Institute, 28 January)
  4. Where the US TikTok Ban Stands After Trump’s Executive Order (Bloomberg, 29 January)
  5. Three reasons Meta will struggle with community fact-checking (MIT Technology Review, 29 January)
  6. China’s DeepSeek AI is full of misinformation and can be tricked into generating bomb instructions, researchers warn (Fortune, 29 January)
  7. Truth struggles against propaganda and censorship on China’s DeepSeek AI (VOA, 28 January)

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