DisinfoDocket 29 April

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Highlights

1. Institutional Memory, Narrative Integrity and the Future of Democratic Resilience (Chris Beall for CIGI, 23 April)
2. How a Hakeem Jeffries quote about ‘maximum warfare’ spread without context (Poynter, 27 April)
3. Disinformation campaign targeted Tibetan parliament-in-exile elections (The Record, 27 April)
4. Private Investors are Steering Europe's AI Race (Tech Policy Press, 28 April)

WATCH - Conspiracy theories swirl that White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting was 'staged' (France24, 27 April)

1. Academia & Research

1. On using large language models to support social research for climate action (Nature, 24 April)
2. A Multi-Dimensional Audit of Politically Aligned Large Language Models (arXiv, 27 April)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. U.S. companies back Sam Altman’s World ID even as much of the world pushes back (Rest of World, 27 April)
2. China blocks Meta's $2bn acquisition of AI start-up Manus (BBC, 27 April)
3. The Doublespeak in OpenAI’s ‘Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age’ (Tech Policy Press, 27 April)

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. Putin tells lawmakers that fixating on bans and restrictions is counterproductive (Meduza, 27 April)