DisinfoDocket 1 April
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Highlights
- A Response to the Brennan Center’s “Myths and Facts” on Section 702 Backdoor Searches (Just Security, 31 March)
- Early Lessons from Australia's Teen Social Media Ban for the Rest of the World (Tech Policy Press, 1 April)
- “Nuance, accuracy and reason are often lost”: An Iranian journalist on what Western media gets wrong about Iran (Reuters Institute, 1 April)
- Rewiring the South Caucasus: TRIPP and the New Geopolitics of Connectivity (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1 April)
1. Academia & Research
- The biological roots of political division: mapping the neural architecture of ideology and social influence (Nature, 31 March)
- Media Capture, Misinformation, and “Noise” (Psychology Today, 31 March)
2. Platforms & Technology
- The State Department’s X Directive and the End of Platform Independence (Lawfare, 1 April)
- Workers around the world are not getting what they want from AI (Rest of World, 31 March)
- Breaking the deadlock on AI governance (Chatham House, 30 March)
3. Russia & Ukraine
- How the West lost the post-Cold War era (Atlantic Council, 30 March)
- A mysterious group is calling on Russians to protest the Kremlin’s Internet restrictions. Is it a trap? (Meduza, 25 March)
- Secession for you, prison in Russia: Moscow’s selective love for self-determination (EUvsDisinfo, 24 March)