Disinfo Docket 5 June
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* Former President’s Daughter Used X to Bombard South Africa With Conspiracy Theories
* Inoculating Against Climate Mis- and Disinformation: Case Studies from the US and the UK
* Disinformation crisis unit on rapid alert around European elections...
Highlights
An engineering approach to understanding the machinery that sustain online hate at scale. "Instead of the large platforms being the key drivers ... waves of adaptive links connect the hate user base over time across a large ecosystem of smaller platforms" https://t.co/2qzsceIBvh
— Social Media Lab (@SMLabTO) June 3, 2024
- Journalists face SLAPP lawsuits from Serbia's senior judge (IFJ, 3 June)
- What do climate change, AI and election season have in common? (Coda Story, 3 June)
- Kremlin Denies Spreading Disinformation About Paris Olympics—Calls Microsoft's Claims 'Slander' (Forbes, 4 June)
- TikTok approved election disinformation ads targeting Ireland - investigation (RTE, 4 June)
1. Academia & Research
- Project 2025 partners use right-wing media to sow distrust in American elections (Media Matters for America, 4 June)
- Researchers create winning strategy to combat vaccine misinformation on X (Phys.org, 3 June)
- Fairer AI in ophthalmology via implicit fairness learning for mitigating sexism and ageism (Nature, 4 June)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Instagram tests forcing users to watch adverts (BBC, 4 June)
- Elon Musk does not grasp EU fears about disinformation on X, official says (The Guardian, 4 June)
- TikTok Fails 'Disinformation Test,' Approves Misleading Election Ads Ahead of EU Vote, Study Shows (Tech Times, 4 June)
3. Russia & Ukraine
The DFRLab’s @EtoBuziashvili has identified nearly 40 suspicious accounts on X involved in a Russian information operation aimed at discrediting pro-democracy protests in Georgia. Here's what you need to know: https://t.co/GnlnJfGBao
— DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social (@DFRLab) June 4, 2024
- Russian bots use fake Tom Cruise for Olympic disinformation (The Japan Times, 4 June)
- 17 000 – the tip of the iceberg (EUvsDisinfo, 4 June)
- Meet Clicker Pulse New leaked documents show how the Kremlin tracks Russians’ reactions to Putin’s speeches — and what it does with its findings (Meduza, 4 June)