DisinfoDocket 7 January

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Highlights

1. Chinese AI unicorns beat Silicon Valley giants in race to go public (Rest of World, 6 January)
2. The Era of AI-Orchestrated Hacking Has Begun: Here’s How the United States Should Respond (Just Security, 6 January)
3. After the LA fires, false narratives on social media impacted state policy (NPR, 7 January)
4. The Battle for Cognitive Liberty in the Age of Corporate AI (Tech Policy Press, 6 January)

1. Academia & Research

1. Conversational AI can increase false memory formation by injecting slight misinformation in conversations (PsyPost, 7 January)
2. Drawing digital lines: pattern analysis of divisive rhetoric in social network discussions (Nature, 30 December)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. India gives Musk 72 hours as X floods with obscene images generated using Grok (Rest of World, 5 January)
2. Cash moves everything around us & the Kremlin’s crypto gambit (Coda Story, 24 December)
3. The Key Challenges of Governing Commercial Spyware (Lawfare, 5 January)

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. Agents of change: How does Russia’s pro-democracy movement make inroads in exile? Meduza asks Free Russia Foundation’s Natalia Arno. (Meduza, 6 January)