DisinfoDocket 20 April
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Highlights
- A Bit of Good News: 3 Book Ban Bills Defeated in Florida (PEN America, 14 April)
- White House and Anthropic hold 'productive' meeting amid fears over Mythos model (BBC, 18 April)
- Optimism for Trump’s CDC pick is tempered by questions about RFK Jr.’s role (Stat, 18 April)
1. Academia & Research
- Big tech fails to opt-out users requesting not to be tracked much of the time, new research says (The Record, 16 April)
2. Platforms & Technology
- What is Claude Mythos and what risks does it pose? (BBC, 17 April)
- The Mexican security company with a $1.27 billion surveillance empire (Rest of World, 16 April)
- AI and the Dangerous Fiction of ‘All Lawful Use’ (Tech Policy Press, 16 April)
3. Russia & Ukraine
- The Russia-Iran Partnership (Lawfare, 19 April)
- Morocco-based YouTube channel acts as French-language proxy for sanctioned Kremlin propagandists (DFR Lab, 10 April)
- Dispatches from the front lines of Russia-linked cyberattacks on Europe (Atlantic Council, 16 April)