DisinfoDocket 1 July
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Don't miss -
* Tracking the disinformation circulating during anti-migrant protests in South Africa
* These viral Venezuela earthquake videos aren’t all what they seem
* Trust in science: How to build and maintain public support in an era of polarization
* Tracking the disinformation circulating during anti-migrant protests in South Africa
* These viral Venezuela earthquake videos aren’t all what they seem
* Trust in science: How to build and maintain public support in an era of polarization
Highlights
- Venezuela earthquakes: Old footage and AI fakes exploit disaster online (France24, 29 June)
- Burning Forests: Tools for Tracking and Reporting Wildfire Damage (Bellingcat, 30 June)
- Have people stopped trusting science? The data tell a surprising story (Nature, 1 July)
- Fact-checkers reckon with shrinking budgets and growing AI threats at GlobalFact 2026 (Nieman Lab, 30 June)
1. Academia & Research
- Theory of Mind and Persuasion Beyond Conversation: Assessing the Capacity of LLMs to Induce Belief States via Planning and Action (arXiv, 30 June)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Can Regulators Actually Deliver a Presumptive Teen Social Media Ban? (Tech Policy Press, 1 July)
- US lifts export controls on Anthropic’s frontier cybersecurity AI models (The Record, 1 July)
- America’s immigrant tech workers are paying an uncertainty tax (Rest of World, 30 June)
3. Russia & Ukraine
- Managing Montreux: Turkey and the Russia-Ukraine War in the Black Sea (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1 July)
- Putin keeps saying Russia will fight until it achieves the ‘goals of the special military operation.’ But it’s not clear what those ‘goals’ even are. (Meduza, 1 July)