Disinfo Docket 13 May

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Highlights

1. David Cameron says UK government has stopped funding disinformation index (Times, 10 May)
2. BIRN Doc Lifts Lid on Russian Disinformation in Balkans (BIRN, 10 May)
3. Japan enacts revised law targeting defamatory online posts (Nikkei Asia, 11 May)
4. Tens of thousands in Georgia protest Russian-style ‘foreign agents’ law (Washington Post, 12 May)

1. Platforms & Technology

1. Signal Warns Users To Beware Telegram’s ‘Dangerous Disinformation’ (Forbes, 10 May)
2. Elon Musk’s Diplomacy: Woo Right-Wing World Leaders. Then Benefit. (NYT, 12 May)
3. A Hippocratic Oath for AI? A Conversation with Chinmayi Sharma (Tech Policy Press, 11 May)
4. U.K. agency releases tools to test AI model safety (TechCrunch, 11 May)
5. Time to kit-up for tech diplomacy, reckons ASPI (The Mandarin, 10 May)

TikTok 

1. TikTok automatically tags external AI-generated content as Chinese version Douyin works on similar standard (SCMP, 11 May)
2. What TikTok got wrong about America (ASPI Strategist, 13 May)

X (Twitter)

1. Musk's X Corp loses lawsuit against Israeli data-scraping company (Reuters, 10 May)
2. Order from eSafety to hide Sydney church stabbing video was invalid, X tells court (Guardian, 10 May)

2. Russia & Ukraine

1. How George Galloway lied to millions that Zelensky’s wife spent $1m on jewellery (Times, 11 May)
2. Kosovo’s government reportedly faces Kremlin-backed cyberattacks (The Record, 10 May)
3. Russian hackers hijack Ukrainian TV to broadcast Victory Day parade (The Record, 10 May)