Disinfo Docket 15 May

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Highlights

1. The Digital Black Press Strategically Combated Covid-19 Misinformation (Columbia Journalism Review, 14 May)
2. US Senate AI Working Group Releases Policy Roadmap (Tech Policy Press, 15 May)
3. Barbarians at the gate: Von der Leyen makes foreign influence a key campaign topic (Politico, 14 May)
4. How the Indian government is weaponizing laws to silence, intimidate journalists (IJNet, 14 May)
5. Disinfo Update 14/05/2024 (Disinfo.eu, 14 May)

1. Academia & Research

1. More than news! Mapping the deliberative potential of a political online ecosystem with digital trace data (Nature, 15 May)
2. Detecting Fallacies in Climate Misinformation: A Technocognitive Approach to Identifying Misleading Argumentation (arXiv, 13 May)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. Can citations fight misinformation on YouTube? (Futurity, 13 May)
2. Startup Aims To Help Publishers Collect Fees from AI Companies (Tech Policy Press, 14 May)

Big victory for transparency here in Musk's lawsuit over data scraping. The judge says allowing social platforms total control over their data risks creating "information monopolies that would disserve the public interest."https://t.co/6JFWsY42wl pic.twitter.com/5whlIUbJFP

— NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics (@CSMaP_NYU) May 14, 2024

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. The West Is Still Oblivious to Russia’s Information War (Foreign Policy, 9 May)
2. Putin’s Reshuffle Is About Optimization, Not Change (Carnegie Endowment, 15 May)