Disinfo Docket 26 August

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Highlights

1. How influence campaigns stopped working (Platformer, 22 August)
2. Green Lights and Red Lines: Responding to Iran’s Election Hacking (Lawfare, 25 August)

1. Academia & Research

1. Evolution of a T-shirt spammer: In which a repeatedly banned X/Twitter spammer attempts to piggyback on Kamala Harris's candidacy to sell T-shirts with plagiarized designs (Conspirator Norteño, 24 August)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. Taking Action Against Malicious Accounts in Iran (Meta, 23 August)
2. Telegram app founder Pavel Durov to appear in court after arrest in Paris (Guardian, 25 August)
   1. How Telegram’s Wild West ethos made it the home of disinformation (Times, 25 August)
   2. Mark Zuckerberg and Daniel Ek on why Europe should embrace open-source AI (The Economist, 21 August)
   3. AI’s Impact On Election Season: Combatting Deepfakes And Protecting Voter Trust (Forbes, 23 August)

X (Twitter)

1. Musk’s X allowing Maga activists to earn cash from conspiracies about Harris (iNews, 25 August)
2. Elon Musk’s Lawyers Quietly Subpoena Public Interest Groups (Mother Jones, 23 August)
3. How Elon Musk Got Tangled Up in Blue (NYT, 24 August)