Disinfo Docket 7 July
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Highlights
- Iraq war ‘made extremists of people’: ex-police terrorism chief looks back at 7/7 (Guardian, 6 July)
- Home Secretary on UK extremism ahead of 7/7 anniversary (Independent, 6 July)
- Elections at risk in the digital age (OHCHR, 4 July)
- LISTEN: Disasters, distrust, and disinformation (Australian National University, 3 July)
1. Academia & Research
- This musical instrument retailer does not exist: In which Facebook finally manages to serve relevant ads to my sock account, except the ads are scams (Conspirator Norteño, 4 July)
- Hidden AI prompts in academic papers spark concern about research integrity (Japan Times, 4 July)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Trump Says He Will Start Talks With China on TikTok Deal (NYT, 5 July)
- TikTok Building New Version of App Ahead of Expected U.S. Sale (The Information)
- We asked 5 AI models to fact-check Trump. Here’s what we learned. (Washington Post, 1 July)
- ChatGPT is pushing people towards mania, psychosis and death – and OpenAI doesn’t know how to stop it (Independent, 6 July)
- Here Is the Science of Why You Doomscroll (NYT, 6 July)
- Brussels in tug-of-war over banning social media for kids (Euractiv, 7 July)
- X/Twitter suspends Reuters account in India after 'legal demand', government denies making request (Jerusalem Post, 6 July)
- Nick Clegg: Don’t blame algorithms — people like fake news (Times, 6 July)
- Meta has found another way to keep you engaged: Chatbots that message you first (Tech Crunch, 3 July)
- YouTube unleashes its creators in war over social media ban (AFR, 4 July)
3. Russia & Ukraine
- Russia’s ‘anti-woke’ visa lures those fearing a moral decline in the West (Washington Post, 6 July)