Disinfo Docket 21 February
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* RFK Jr. is courting Black voters, a group he once targeted with vaccine disinformation
* Hate speech and calls for genocide in Putin’s Russia
* Fact-checking 7 claims in Rise Mzansi’s election manifesto...
* RFK Jr. is courting Black voters, a group he once targeted with vaccine disinformation
* Hate speech and calls for genocide in Putin’s Russia
* Fact-checking 7 claims in Rise Mzansi’s election manifesto...
Highlights
- MCA’s WhatsApp Helpline: Curbing The Spread of AI-Generated Misinformation In India (Meta, 19 February)
- Russian court sends 19-year-old to compulsory psychiatric treatment for spreading ‘disinformation’ about army (Meduza, 20 February)
- Disinformation Threatens Global Elections: here's how to fight back (Psychology Today, 19 February)
- US increasingly worried about Kremlin’s disinfo operations in Africa (Politico, 20 February)
- EU opens investigation into TikTok over online content and child safeguarding (The Guardian, 20 February)
1. Academia & Research
- Right-wing media promote anti-immigrant group’s misleading report to falsely suggest immigrants are stealing American jobs (Media Matters for America, 20 February)
- The persuasive effects of social cues and source effects on misinformation susceptibility (Nature, 20 February)
- Towards LVLM-Enhanced Multimodal Misinformation Detection with External Knowledge Augmentation (arXiv, 19 February)
2. Platforms & Technology
- When AI brings ‘ugly things’ to democracy (Coda Story, 15 February)
- What is Sora? A new generative AI tool could transform video production and amplify disinformation risks (The Conversation, 20 February)
Meta
- Meta is fighting deepfakes and misinformation in India ahead of 2024 elections (Mashable, 20 February)
TikTok
- TikTok Is Subject of E.U. Inquiry Over ‘Addictive Design’ (The New York Times, 20 February)
- Republican lawmakers call on Biden to delete campaign TikTok account (Yahoo, 20 February)
X (Twitter)
- New book reveals the roots of Elon Musk's Twitter takeover (Axios, 20 February)
- X briefly suspends account of Alexei Navalny's widow (BBC, 20 February)