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Disinfo Docket 24 July

DisinfoDocket curates influence operations-related academic research, news, events and job opportunities.
Disinfo Docket 24 July
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Good morning! Below the paywall this morning -
* Singapore media regime whack-a-mole with Chinese misinformation
* Telegram zero-day for Android allowed malicious files to masquerade as videos
* No, She Didn’t Party With Diddy: Dumb Misinfo Swirls Around Kamala Harris...

Highlights

  1. Our twin crises of despair and misinformation (Brookings, 22 July)
  2. The anticipated disinformation target (Axios, 23 July)
  3. The ways people hear about big news these days; “into a million pieces,” says source (Nieman Lab, 22 July)
  4. Fake Harris audio spreads like wildfire on TikTok after Biden’s announcement (Media Matters for America, 22 July)
  5. The Flattening Machine: The chaotic aftermath of the assassination attempt shows a toxic information system working as designed. (The Atlantic, 16 July)

1. Academia & Research

2. Platforms & Technology

  1. Google U-turn over long-running plan to ditch cookies (BBC, 23 July)
  2. Disinformation Security Startup Cyabra Plans To List On NASDAQ (Forbes, 23 July)
  3. The AI-generated disinformation dystopia that wasn't (Axios, 22 July)

3. Russia & Ukraine

  1. How Russian propagandists spun the Trump assassination attempt (DFR Lab, 18 July)
  2. Russia Using Disinformation To Undermine Moldova's Upcoming Elections, Officials Tell U.S. Panels (Radio Free Europe, 23 July)
  3. Paint It Black – pro-Kremlin take on the NATO Summit (EUvsDisinfo, 19 July)
  4. A geopolitical paradox: Former diplomat Sergi Kapanadze on Georgia’s upcoming elections, the people’s E.U. aspirations, and the government’s drift towards Russia (Meduza, 19 July)
  5. As Russia’s Caucasus influence falls, filling the gap isn’t simple (ASPI, 22 July)

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