DisinfoDocket 6 May

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Highlights

1. International Legal Challenges to the Trump Administration’s Immigration Policies (Lawfare, 4 May)
2. The global cybersecurity gap deepens as AI-powered attacks surge (Rest of World, 5 May)
3. The case for supporting democratic resilience (DFR Lab, 29 April)
4. Three Justifications—and the AI Accelerant—of India’s Digital Censorship Infrastructure (Tech Policy Press, 5 May)

WATCH - Countering AI Threats with Smarter Detection (Graphika, 30 April)

1. Academia & Research

1. Community-based fact-checking reduces the spread of misleading posts on X (formerly Twitter) (Nature, 5 May)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. Trolling, memes and deepfakes: How AI is thickening the fog of war (Reuters Institute, 4 May)
2. Pentagon says US military to be an 'AI-first' fighting force (BBC, 1 May)
3. The EU AI Act is Not Ready for Agents (Tech Policy Press, 5 May)

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. Chernobyl Is Still a Current Event, Forty Years Later (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 30 April)
2. Russia cuts mobile internet in Moscow and St. Petersburg ahead of Victory Day (Meduza, 5 May)