Disinfo Docket 5 February

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1. Digital Security In Uncertain Times (String Literal, 4 February)
2. Edelman expands crisis and risk team to help ‘combat disinformation’ (PR Week, February)
3. Google launches new AI models and brings ‘thinking’ to Gemini (Tech Crunch, 5 February)
4. ‘Panic benefits Ice’: local newsrooms fight back as immigrants face misinformation (The Guardian, 3 February)

1. Academia & Research

1. On Disinformation, Distrust and Democracy 2.0 - Findings from DDIA’s Second Poll of U.S. Latinos in 2024 (DDIA, 4 February)
2. The Effects of Enterprise Social Media on Communication Networks (arXiv, 3 February)
3. Study debunks nuclear test misinformation following 2024 Iran earthquake (Phys, 4 February)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. Elon Musk’s Takeover Is Causing Rifts in Donald Trump’s Inner Circle (WIRED, 5 February)
2. Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website (Tech Crunch, 4 February)
3. The AEC wants to stop AI and misinformation. But it’s up against a problem that is deep and dark (The Conversation, 3 February)

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. Nothing new from the east (EUvsDisinfo, 4 February)
2. Donald Trump, the man in the mirror: Alexandra Prokopenko explains why depoliticized Russian elites may be counting on America’s returned president to save them (Meduza, 5 February)