Disinfo Docket 3 March

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Highlights

1. X Misleading and Manipulated Media Dashboard (Deep Fakes Tracker)

1. Academia & Research

1. The red-to-blue disinformation pipeline: How the lies of an obscure Republican blogger were used by a Democratic congressional candidate and a national media outlet to falsely paint random social media users as Ron DeSantis operatives (Conspirator Norteño, 28 February)
2. Meming Well is the Best Revenge (Memetic Warfare, 3 March)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads, European human rights body rules (CNN, 28 February)
2. Elon Musk, DOGE, and the looming threat of rogue AI (Weaponised Spaces, 2 March)
3. Trump compares UK's demand for Apple user data to Chinese monitoring (Reuters, 28 February)
4. Trump’s AI strategy puts the Indo-Pacific at a crossroads (ASPI, 28 February)

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. Zelensky invades Trump’s ‘disinformation space’ — and it could really hurt Ukraine (CNN, 1 March)
2. Russia pushing disinformation to damage Ukraine's ties with Armenia, Azerbaijan, intel claims (Kyiv Independent, 2 March)