DisinfoDocket 4 February

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Highlights

1. The United States Should Apply the Arab Spring’s Lessons to Its Iran Response (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2 February)
2. X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok (BBC, 3 February)
3. Chaos in Minneapolis Exposes an Internet at War With Truth (The New York Times, 3 February)
4. Is India softening its stance toward Chinese tech? (Rest of World, 3 February)

1. Academia & Research

1. Fact or Fake? Assessing the Role of Deepfake Detectors in Multimodal Misinformation Detection (arXiv, 2 February)
2. Understanding election promise tracking as a form of fact-checking (Nature, 2 February)

2. Platforms & Technology

WATCH - French police raid Paris offices of Musk's X over child sexual deepfakes (France24, 3 February)

1. ‘Deepfakes spreading and more AI companions’: seven takeaways from the latest artificial intelligence safety report (The Guardian, 3 February)
2. The Problem With Using AI in Your Personal Life (The Atlantic, 3 February)
3. Too casually, X tells us how Beijing is spamming Chinese users (ASPI, 3 February)
4. After Rampant AI-Powered Abuse, Grok Doubles Down With a New Video Generator (CNET, 2 February)

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. Fleeing the front and wanted in Russia, deserters face deportation as Germany ‘churns out’ asylum rejections (Meduza, 3 February)
2. Russian state hackers exploit new Microsoft Office flaw in attacks on Ukraine, EU (The Record, 3 February)