Disinfo Docket 2 June
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Highlights
- Hidden Bear: The GRU hackers of Russia’s most notorious kill squad (The Insider, 31 May)
- Polish eurosceptic Nawrocki wins presidential vote, electoral commission says (Reuters, 2 June)
- Digital Information Floods and Dams: Exploring how technology can be used as both a gateway and a barrier to accessing information (Tactical Tech)
1. Academia & Research
- Assessing the Relationship Between Information Ecosystems and Democracy's Woes (Tech Policy Press, 1 June)
- Differences in link hallucination and source comprehension across different large language models (The End(s) of Argument, 1 June)
2. Platforms & Technology
- The budding bromance between authoritarianism and tech (Washington Post, 29 May)
- Google and DOJ tussle over how AI will remake the web in antitrust closing arguments (Ars Technica, 30 May)
- Salman Rushdie says AI won’t threaten authors until it can make people laugh (Guardian, 1 June)
- Et Tu, Metus?: Summary of Meta’s new Quarterly Adversarial Threat Report for Q1 of 2025 (Memetic Warfare, 2 June)
3. Russia & Ukraine
- Russia-linked disinfo campaign stokes anti-Ukrainian sentiment in Poland before June 1 vote, investigation finds (Kyiv Independent, 31 May)