Disinfo Docket 8 September
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Highlights
- How Language Shapes Belief in Misinformation: A Study Among Multilinguals in Ukraine (Cambridge University Press, 26 August)
- Indigenous group in Brazil takes TikTok to court over planned data center (Rest of World, 8 September)
- Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing a threat to human civilisation (The Guardian, 8 September)
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said ‘everybody can get’ the COVID-19 vaccine. Is that true? (Poynter, 8 September)
1. Academia & Research
- Conversational AI increases political knowledge as effectively as self-directed internet search (arXiv, 5 September)
- Truth discernment may not help to overcome misinformation (Nature, 8 September)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Hong Kong to face hurdles in enforcing rules on labelling AI-generated content: experts (SCMP, 6 September)
- Breaking Down the EU Antitrust Decision on Google Adtech (Tech Policy Press, 5 September)
3. Russia & Ukraine
- EU’s Telegram dilemma: the rise of unchecked influence (EUvsDisinfo, 8 September)
- Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin, freed in 2024 prisoner swap, says Moscow has revoked his citizenship (Meduza, 8 September)