Disinfo Docket 2 April

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Highlights

1. International Fact-Checking Day: DW counters disinformation (DW, 2 April)
2. As Trump silences Voice of America, Russia and China seize the opportunity to reshape Africa’s news ecosystem (Reuters Institute, 1 April)
3. Investigating disinformation narratives webinar announced by IFCN (Poynter, 2 April)
4. How to advance scientific excellence in an era of widespread misinformation and growing skepticism (APA, 1 April)
5. Discover the iceberg, enter the galaxy: understanding organised information manipulation (EUvsDisinfo, 1 April)

1. Academia & Research

1. Modeling the amplification of epidemic spread by individuals exposed to misinformation on social media (Nature, 2 April)
2. BRICS Expansion and the Future of World Order: Perspectives from Member States, Partners, and Aspirants (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 31 March)
3. AI Researchers Warn: Hallucinations Persist In Leading AI Models (Search Engine Journal, 31 March)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. DeepSeek shows the US and EU the costs of failing to govern AI (Atlantic Council, 1 April)
2. Trump weighs TikTok bids as deadline looms (Semafor, 2 April)
3. Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Release an ‘Open Weight’ AI Model This Summer (WIRED, 31 March)

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. Western cyber aid to Ukraine faces strain as Russia's war drags on (The Record, 2 April)
2. Russian authorities vow to take ‘all measures’ to extradite and arrest exiled Navalny associates, calling them ‘traitors to the Motherland’ (Meduza, 2 April)