DisinfoDocket 10 June
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* Kremlin-aligned actors targeted Bulgarian vote with EU interference claims
* A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science
* How a mistaken C-SPAN label helped fuel false election fraud claims in Los Angeles
* Kremlin-aligned actors targeted Bulgarian vote with EU interference claims
* A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science
* How a mistaken C-SPAN label helped fuel false election fraud claims in Los Angeles
Highlights
- EU orders Meta to open WhatsApp to rival AI chatbots (BBC, 9 June)
- Four questions (and expert answers) about Armenia’s elections and what to expect next (Atlantic Council, 9 June)
- Stop the FISA Fearmongering and Allow Fair Votes on Reforms (Tech Policy Press, 9 June)
- From Chisinau to Yerevan: How Russia’s Evrazia brought its Moldova playbook to Armenia (DFR Lab, 5 June)
- ‘It escalated to a quite horrendous point’: Woman wrongly named as officer in Henry Nowak arrest on how misinformation ‘spread like wildfire’ (Full Fact, 9 June)
1. Academia & Research
- The Compute Coalition: How to Build the Future of AI in the Free World (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 8 June)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Farage says Reform has contacted X 'to highest level' over fake AI ads (BBC, 9 June)
- The Great AI Divide: Navigating U.S. and Chinese dominance (Rest of World, 9 June)
- Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 is a version of Mythos the public can access today (Tech Crunch, 9 June)
- Google’s ‘New Era for AI Search’ May Threaten Democracy (Tech Policy Press, 8 June)