Disinfo Docket 30 July
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* BBC and Met Office team up to tackle ‘weather disinformation’
* Trump’s AI Action Plan seeks customers, not partners
* Moldova’s president warns of ‘unprecedented’ Russian election meddling...
Highlights
- Iran-Israel AI War Propaganda Is a Warning to the World (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 28 July)
- TikTok turns to users in fight against misinformation (The Hill, 30 July)
- ICFJ Knight Fellow Sannuta Raghu says “fidelity to source” is vital when using AI (IJNet, 30 July)
- The US-EU trade deal in numbers - how it compares to UK deal (BBC Verify, 28 July)
- Poland says more than 30 suspects face trial over pro-Russian sabotage (The Record, 29 July)
1. Academia & Research
- He said, she said: the “accused” and “complainant” in a sexual assault scenario are equally susceptible to misinformation (Nature, 29 July)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Governments Want to Ease AI Regulation for Innovation, But Do Citizens Agree? (Tech Policy Press, 28 July)
- Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target (WIRED, 29 July)
- Google launches new AI search feature in UK (BBC, 29 July)
3. Russia & Ukraine
- A political crisis that could weaken the war effort itself: What Zelensky’s anti-corruption U-turn means at a ‘precarious moment’ for Ukraine (Meduza, 30 July)
- Ukraine, Belarus Hackers Claim Cyberattack on Russia’s Aeroflot (The Defense Post, 29 July)