Disinfo Docket 29 May

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Very interesting! “Misinformation coverage may not, as some have feared, erode trust in mainstream media. Rather…it can have the surprising effect of improving trust in legacy media” - b/c talking about misinfo leads people to put greater value on professional journalistic norms https://t.co/TTR1CjsVfW

— Sander van der Linden (@Sander_vdLinden) May 28, 2024

1. Tech tantrums – when tech meets humanity (LSE, 28 May)
2. Social media bosses are ‘the largest dictators’, says Nobel peace prize winner (The Guardian, 27 May)
3. Websites of Moldovan politicians linked to local pro-Russia news outlets (DFR Lab, 28 May)
4. The AI Mirror — how technology blocks human potential (FT, 29 May)
5. Fighting disinformation can be simple (IJNet, 29 May)
6. EU monitoring new measures by Meta to tackle election disinformation (Reuters, 28 May)

The law on foreign influence has tipped the scales with Georgia's electorate — with many no longer willing to tolerate their leaders’ excesses of power.https://t.co/f2j5d8w73f

— Chatham House (@ChathamHouse) May 29, 2024

1. Academia & Research

1. Misinformation, observational equivalence and the possibility of rationality (Taylor & Francis, 23 May)
2. Study shows relatively low number of superspreaders responsible for large portion of misinformation on Twitter (Phys.org, 27 May)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. CEO of Google says it has no solution for its AI providing wildly incorrect information (Futurism, 25 May)
2. The Hazards of Putting Ethics on Autopilot (MIT Sloan, 8 May)
3. AI products like ChatGPT much hyped but not much used, study says (BBC, 28 May)
4. Google Researchers Say AI Now Leading Disinformation Vector (and Are Severely Undercounting the Problem) (404 Media, 28 May)

🚨BREAKING: This will be the structure of the EU AI Office. Here's what you need to know:

➡️According to the official page, from 16 June, the organizational setup of the European AI office will consist of 5 units and 2 advisors:

➵ The “Excellence in AI and Robotics” unit
➵… pic.twitter.com/vGx6YDeNfc

— Luiza Jarovsky (@LuizaJarovsky) May 29, 2024