DisinfoDocket 26 November 2025
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Don't miss -
* How Shifting Responsibility for AI Harms Undermines Democratic Accountability
* Now is the time to encourage Taiwan’s assertiveness, not hold it back
* The rise of white nationalism and Active Clubs in Canada...
* How Shifting Responsibility for AI Harms Undermines Democratic Accountability
* Now is the time to encourage Taiwan’s assertiveness, not hold it back
* The rise of white nationalism and Active Clubs in Canada...
Highlights
- The digital exiles: Why people are abandoning their smartphones (Coda Story, 21 November)
- Budget 2025: fact checked (Full Fact, 26 November)
- 'Composable Moderation' May Protect Bluesky from Political Pressure (Tech Policy Press, 26 November)
WATCH - India, Nigeria, Sri Lanka: X reveals where viral MAGA accounts are based (France24, 24 November)
1. Academia & Research
- A hybrid deep learning framework for fake news detection using LSTM-CGPNN and metaheuristic optimization (Nature, 24 November)
2. Platforms & Technology
- New location feature on Elon Musk's X 'weaponised' to spread misinformation (ABC, 25 November)
- ChatGPT turns 3 (Rest of World, 26 November)
- Dutch public broadcaster NOS quits X over disinformation (Reuters, 25 November)
3. Russia & Ukraine
- Leaked calls between Steve Witkoff and Putin’s advisers raise new questions about Trump’s ‘peace plan.’ Here’s how the world is reacting. (Meduza, 26 November)