Disinfo Docket 6 August

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Highlights

From boycotts to botnets; online threats to media are escalating.

GenAI is accelerating the pace. Are you prepared?

Watch the full session with Graphika’s Dr. John Kelly & Chris Block: https://t.co/HbYulJ6EKV
#MediaSecurity #CyberThreats #GenAI #Graphika pic.twitter.com/0AlEgkRYcC

— Graphika (@Graphika_NYC) August 4, 2025

1. Texas election map fight swells into national political warfare (The Washington Post, 6 August)
2. Cross-Border Communication: How Russian State Media Sends Mixed Signals on Trump’s Border Policies in English and Spanish (Securing Democracy, 5 August)
3. Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent (Tech Crunch, 6 August)
4. The summit on a disinformation mountain (EUvsDisinfo, 4 August)

1. Academia & Research

1. Replicability and generalizability of the repeated exposure effect on moral condemnation of fake news (Nature, 5 August)

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— CREST (@crest_research) August 6, 2025

2. Platforms & Technology

1. Call to vet YouTube ads like regular TV to stop scams (BBC, 6 August)
2. Stopping AI Harm Starts with Protecting Whistleblowers (Tech Policy Press, 6 August)

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. Trump hails ‘highly productive’ meeting between Witkoff and Putin on Ukraine war (Semafor, 6 August)
2. Direct Line with Vladimir Putin: Television Q&A and the Resilience of Russian Authoritarianism (Stanford University, 4 August)