DisinfoDocket 27 May
DisinfoDocket curates influence operations-related academic research, news, events and job opportunities.
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Don't miss -
* Planning for America’s Democratic Renewal Must Start Now: Lessons from Poland
* Iceland’s foreign minister accuses rivals of spreading misinformation ‘from Farage’s playbook’ ahead of EU referendum
* What happens when the news media gets it wrong?
* Planning for America’s Democratic Renewal Must Start Now: Lessons from Poland
* Iceland’s foreign minister accuses rivals of spreading misinformation ‘from Farage’s playbook’ ahead of EU referendum
* What happens when the news media gets it wrong?
Highlights
- How this German public broadcaster is turning journalists into content creators (Reuters Institute, 26 May)
- Tough love: Spies, dating apps and the dark side of online intimacy (EUvsDisinfo, 27 May)
- Russia 'relentlessly targeting' critical infrastructure and democracy, GCHQ says (BBC, 27 May)
- In the disinformation war, the U.S. unilaterally disarmed (The Washington Post, 26 May)
- Stray Ukrainian drones test European unity amid Russian disinformation (Euractiv, 22 May)
1. Academia & Research
- A federated deep learning framework with distributed hybrid character-level and attention mechanisms for scalable and cost-efficient fake news detection (Nature, 27 May)
- The AI Cognitive Trojan Horse: How Large Language Models May Bypass Human Epistemic Vigilance (arXiv, 26 May)
2. Platforms & Technology
- The agentic divide: Why “good enough” AI isn’t enough to survive the new economy (Rest of World, 26 May)
- The Blind Spot in AI Safety (Tech Policy Press, 26 May)