DisinfoDocket 23 March
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Highlights
- H-ARMOR is a CyberPeace Institute initiative that helps cyber defenders and FIMI/information operations investigators working both in civil society, public and private sector, move from exposure to disruption by working on the technical infrastructure / digital assets that enables hybrid operations and that compose the technical layer of Information Manipulation Systems (CyberPeace Institute)
- What would a human rights-based response to disinformation and information manipulation look like? (Council of Europe, 20 March)
- Iran Wields Wartime Internet Access as a Political Tool (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 18 March)
- The stark divide in the UAE and India war info systems (Rest of World, 20 March)
1. Academia & Research
- Video inoculation against election misinformation across 12 EU nations (Nature, 17 March)
2. Platforms & Technology
- AI-generated YouTube channels co-opt war coverage to farm nearly two billion views (DFR Lab, 23 March)
- AI and the End of Territorial Time (Tech Policy Press, 22 March)
3. Russia & Ukraine
- Russia-linked malware operation collapses after security failures, developer’s arrest (The Record, 23 March)
- Belligerent and Beleaguered: Russia After the War with Ukraine (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 19 March)
- Meduza’s readers in Russia on life without Internet (Meduza, 23 March)