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Disinfo Docket 9 July

DisinfoDocket curates influence operations-related academic research, news, events and job opportunities.
Disinfo Docket 9 July
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Highlights

  1. How independent media in Serbia are uniting to fight SLAPP suits (IJNet, 8 July)
  2. Unpacking the EU’s Digital Services Act Delegated Regulation on Data Access (Tech Policy Press, 8 July)
  3. Covering Health Misinformation: What Journalists Need to Rethink (The Good Men Project, 8 July)
  4. Fake CNN and BBC sites used to push investment scams (The Record, 9 July)
  5. Meta’s grand WhatsApp fintech experiment in India has fizzled (Rest of World, 7 July)

1. Academia & Research

  1. What Future for International Democracy Support? (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 7 July)
  2. Leveraging data analytics for detection and impact evaluation of fake news and deepfakes in social networks (Nature, 8 July)
  3. Remember Past, Anticipate Future: Learning Continual Multimodal Misinformation Detectors (arXiv, 8 July)

2. Platforms & Technology

  1. 'Sovereignty' Myth-Making in the AI Race (Tech Policy Press, 7 July)
  2. The Seven Kinds of AI Agents (The Information, 8 July)

3. Russia & Ukraine

  1. Pro-Kremlin actors push multilingual biolab hoax targeting Armenia (DFR Lab, 7 July)
  2. Is Russia really ‘grooming’ Western AI? (Al Jazeera, 8 July)

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