Disinfo Docket 26 June

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Highlights

1. In Ukraine, Google's core update heightens fears of Russian disinformation (IJNet, 25 June)
2. Opinion | Renée DiResta: We Are Losing the Battle Against Election Disinformation (The New York Times, 25 June)
3. Trial Of Journalist Gershkovich Under Way In Russia As U.S. Calls For His Immediate Release (Radio Free Europe, 26 June)
4. US supreme court allows government to request removal of misinformation on social media (The Guardian, 26 June)

LISTEN - Internet Governance Is At A Crossroads (Tech Policy Press, 23 June)

1. Academia & Research

1. Social Media Use and Internalizing Symptoms in Clinical and Community Adolescent Samples (JAMA Network, 24 June)
2. Information Literacy for Societal Resilience: A New Creative Intervention About the Effects of AI on our Online Lives (Tactical Tech, 25 June)
3. Study: Top newspapers fixate on Biden's age (Media Matters for America, 24 June)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. The record labels come for AI (Platformer, 24 June)
2. AI Tools Make It Easy to Clone Someone’s Voice Without Consent (Proof News, 25 June)
3. Garbage In, Garbage Out: Perplexity Spreads Misinformation From Spammy AI Blog Posts (Forbes, 26 June)

3. Russia & Ukraine

Wagner "became the Africa Corps and now serves the full purposes of military intelligence" and the Ministry of Defence, "guarding trade routes, securing resources that Moscow uses to circumvent sanctions, and more," DFRLab's @ruslantrad says to @BBCNews: https://t.co/R9GWINzfNx

— DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social (@DFRLab) June 24, 2024