DisinfoDocket 20 May
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Highlights
- Hype, Paranoia, and the Fascist Propensity in Tech (Tech Policy Press, 19 May)
- UK regulator to require tech firms to tackle deepfakes, non-consensual intimate images (The Record, 19 May)
- US military jets and drones tracked near Cuba as tensions rise (BBC Verify, 20 May)
- The Digital Iron Curtain 2.0: how the MAX messenger is reshaping Russia’s communication space (EUvsDisinfo, 20 May)
1. Academia & Research
- Attention-augmented hybrid framework with evolutionary optimization for robust deepfake detection (Nature, 19 May)
- New research examines how misinformation threatens planetary defense and public trust (Phys, 18 May)
2. Platforms & Technology
- The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People (Tech Policy Press, 20 May)
- Why the AI industry is the real winner of the Musk-Altman trial (BBC, 19 May)