DisinfoDocket 6 April
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Highlights
- Alarm or Caution? Defending Democracy During Backsliding (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 8 April)
- Why some wars don’t make headlines (Reuters Institute, 2 April)
- The Alibi Machine: In Russia’s information war, the cover story is written before the bomb drops. Is that a crime? (Coda Story)
- TikTok removes covert networks ahead of Hungary vote as disinformation concerns grow (The Record, 8 April)
1. Academia & Research
- Red Flags and Cherry Picking: Reading The Scientific Blackpill Wiki (arXiv, 2 April)
- When collaboration fails: persuasion driven adversarial influence in multi agent large language model debate (Nature, 8 April)
2. Platforms & Technology
- India’s frugal AI models are a blueprint for resource-strapped nations (Rest of World, 7 April)
- Ex-Meta worker investigated for downloading 30,000 private Facebook photos (BBC, 7 April)
- Platform Design Litigation Yields Historic Verdicts Against Meta and Google (Tech Policy Press, 6 April)
- Myth of the AI Oracle (Lawfare, 5 April)
3. Russia & Ukraine
- Ukraine hits Russian oil ports, Kremlin blames NATO and warns of a “coup” in Hungary (EUvsDisinfo, 2 April)