DisinfoDocket 29 June
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Don't miss -
* Justices rule that cellphone location histories are protected by the Fourth Amendment
* Military storming and forced shutdown of Uganda's leading independent media is illegal
* EU plans reset with Serbia as elections loom
* Justices rule that cellphone location histories are protected by the Fourth Amendment
* Military storming and forced shutdown of Uganda's leading independent media is illegal
* EU plans reset with Serbia as elections loom
Highlights
- Nine Things Platforms Could Do Now to Help Blunt Political Violence in the United States (Tech Policy Press, 28 June)
- Authoritarians Are Great at Propaganda—Until They’re Not (The Atlantic, 25 June)
- How governments enable kleptocrats by doing nothing (Coda Story, 24 June)
- Pro-Russian groups are seeding AI chatbots with propaganda, European officials warn (NBC, 26 June)
1. Academia & Research
- Foreign state disinformation campaigns too complex to be understood by current UK monitoring systems (Cardiff University, 15 June)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Tech firms are blaming AI for mega device and console price rises (BBC, 28 June)
- The World Doesn't Need Another UN AI Declaration. It Needs Architecture. (Tech Policy Press, 29 June)
- US posts $10 million reward over Russian cyber campaign targeting Signal, WhatsApp (The Record, 29 June)
3. Russia & Ukraine
- How Moscow tries to cover up its failures on the Ukrainian battlefield (EUvsDisinfo, 23 June)
- Russian military recruitment ad on VK used AI-generated image of Navalny (Meduza, 29 June)