Disinfo Docket 9 July
DisinfoDocket curates influence operations-related academic research, news, events and job opportunities.
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Don't miss -
* U.S. sees most single-year measles cases since it declared disease eliminated
* Misinformation on Cloud Seeding Swirls After Deadly Texas Floods
* Losing Golos: Russia’s last independent election watchdog is shutting down. Here’s what that means for democracy in the country...
* U.S. sees most single-year measles cases since it declared disease eliminated
* Misinformation on Cloud Seeding Swirls After Deadly Texas Floods
* Losing Golos: Russia’s last independent election watchdog is shutting down. Here’s what that means for democracy in the country...
Highlights
- How independent media in Serbia are uniting to fight SLAPP suits (IJNet, 8 July)
- Unpacking the EU’s Digital Services Act Delegated Regulation on Data Access (Tech Policy Press, 8 July)
- Covering Health Misinformation: What Journalists Need to Rethink (The Good Men Project, 8 July)
- Fake CNN and BBC sites used to push investment scams (The Record, 9 July)
- Meta’s grand WhatsApp fintech experiment in India has fizzled (Rest of World, 7 July)
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1. Academia & Research
- What Future for International Democracy Support? (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 7 July)
- Leveraging data analytics for detection and impact evaluation of fake news and deepfakes in social networks (Nature, 8 July)
- Remember Past, Anticipate Future: Learning Continual Multimodal Misinformation Detectors (arXiv, 8 July)
2. Platforms & Technology
- 'Sovereignty' Myth-Making in the AI Race (Tech Policy Press, 7 July)
- The Seven Kinds of AI Agents (The Information, 8 July)
3. Russia & Ukraine
- Pro-Kremlin actors push multilingual biolab hoax targeting Armenia (DFR Lab, 7 July)
- Is Russia really ‘grooming’ Western AI? (Al Jazeera, 8 July)