Disinfo Docket 12 June
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Below the paywall today -
* Hearing voices, seeing things: How deepfakes are derailing the electoral process
* State media's coverage of President Ebrahim Raisi's death feeds distrust in Iran
* National TV news largely ignored the climate connection during coverage of the recent extreme heat event...
* Hearing voices, seeing things: How deepfakes are derailing the electoral process
* State media's coverage of President Ebrahim Raisi's death feeds distrust in Iran
* National TV news largely ignored the climate connection during coverage of the recent extreme heat event...
Highlights
"They're often producing narratives that feel like they're throwing spaghetti at a wall. If they can get more people on the internet arguing with each other or trusting each other less, then in some ways their job is done," @acarvin explained to @NPR: https://t.co/E09J7E3aww
— DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social (@DFRLab) June 7, 2024
- Dark money news outlets outpacing local daily newspapers (Axios, 11 June)
- Child poverty, NHS waiting lists and government spending: BBC Scottish leaders’ debate fact checked (Full Fact, 12 June)
- Disinfo Update 11/06/2024 (Disinfo.eu, 11 June)
- How a Russian Operative Worked to Shape Moscow’s Story in Europe (Bloomberg, 11 June)
- As Venezuelan elections loom, a chatbot based on "your aunt from Whatsapp" is battling misinformation (The Latin Times, 11 June)
1. Academia & Research
- Prominent misinformation interventions reduce misperceptions but increase scepticism (Nature, 10 June)
- Mapping How People Get Their (Political) News (Annenberg School for Communication, 10 June)
- Phony 'news' portals surpass US newspaper sites, researchers say (Phys.org, 12 June)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Meta to use Instagram and Facebook posts from as far back as 2007 to train artificial intelligence tools (ABC, 10 June)
- Why Perplexity’s Cynical Theft Represents Everything That Could Go Wrong With AI (Forbes, 11 June)
- AI Tools Are Secretly Training on Real Images of Children (WIRED, 10 June)
- Elon Musk Tweeted a Thing (4O4 Media, 11 June)
3. Russia & Ukraine
- Elections are battlefields for the Kremlin: dismiss and drive wedges (EUvsDisinfo, 11 June)
- Another battlefield: Telegram as a digital front in Russia’s war against Ukraine (DFR Lab, 10 June)
- Old and new lessons from the Ukraine War (ASPI, 7 June)
- A Russian Su-57 Was Damaged In Ukraine — Now Comes The Misinformation (Forbes, 10 June)