Disinfo Docket 29 October

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Highlights

EVENT - Trade, Trust & Turbulence: Safeguarding Business in the Disinformation Age (The Conference Board, 18 November)

EVENT - The Information Animal: Are Humans in a Competition for Reality? (Carnegie Endowment, 5 November)

1. Mapping news creators and influencers in social and video networks (Reuters Institute, 28 October)
2. Authoritarian reach and democratic response: A tactical framework to counter and prevent transnational repression (Atlantic Council, 27 October)
3. Can We "Inoculate" the Brain Against Misinformation? (Psychology Today, 27 October)

1. Academia & Research

1. Trust in institutions and misinformation susceptibility both independently explain vaccine skepticism (Nature, 28 October)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. We Need a New Kind of Research for the AI Generation (Tech Policy Press, 27 October)
2. The Threat Posed by Deepfake Satellite Images (TIME, 27 October)

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. Russia changes military recruitment tactics, a mayor threatens a constituent for ‘dislikes,’ and Ukraine will start exporting weapons: Meduza breaks down today’s biggest Russia-related news stories (Meduza, 28 October)
2. Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda (WIRED. 27 October)

LISTEN - Russian Misinformation: how does it make its way to Australia? (SBS, 28 October)