Disinfo Docket 14 April

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Highlights

1. LISTEN: Misinformation and disinformation appears rife on non-English social media (SBS, 13 April)
2. FTC v Meta trial: The future of Instagram and WhatsApp is at stake (Wired, 13 April)
3. Ireland probes Musk’s X for feeding Europeans’ data to its AI model Grok (Politico, 11 April)
4. How to spot AI influence in Australia’s election campaign (ASPI Strategist, 14 April)

1. Academia & Research

1. AI Index 2025: State of AI in 10 Charts (Stanford University, 7 April)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. Meta goes to trial to avoid a breakup of Instagram and WhatsApp (Verge, 11 April)
2. Legal Defense Fund exits Meta civil rights advisory group over DEI changes (Guardian, 11 April)
3. U.S. Prepares to Challenge Meta’s Social Media Dominance (NYT, 13 April)
4. How Substack is redefining trust and safety by creating a new division of ‘standards’ (Digiday, 7 April)
5. Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say (Wired, 13 April)

3. Russia & Ukraine