DisinfoDocket 14 October
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Don't miss -
* Russia, China and Iran Harness AI for US Midterm Disinformation
* Toilet paper and secret recorders: What we know about the arrest of the Saudi OpenAI engineer
* The Russian Bots Went Silent. Or Did They?
* Russia, China and Iran Harness AI for US Midterm Disinformation
* Toilet paper and secret recorders: What we know about the arrest of the Saudi OpenAI engineer
* The Russian Bots Went Silent. Or Did They?
Highlights
- Ten Questions and (Easy-to-Digest) Answers About the 2026 Brazilian Elections (DDIA, 2 October)
- Is Zelensky right to say data centre strikes have taken down Russian bots? (BBC Verify, 13 October)
- College journalism is thriving at schools that don’t teach it (Poynter, 14 October)
1. Academia & Research
- The World’s Growing Patchwork of Age Bans and What It Reveals (Tech Policy Press, 14 October)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Reddit Braces For Wave Of Misinformation As Fake News Spreads Online (Forbes, 14 October)
- How eye-catching social media feeds steer attention toward misinformation (Phys, 13 October)
- Multiple Polls Find Most Americans Think AI is Moving Too Fast (Tech Policy Press, 13 October)
- Digital distrust and polarisation: 'We need to get back to engaging with one another as a society' (France24, 13 October)