Disinfo Docket 31 July
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Below the paywall today -
* Misinformation has stained recent elections. The government must act.
* “Are You Going to Contribute to the Chaos? Or Are You Going to Thread Through and Be the Expert?”
* From rumours to riots: How online misinformation fuelled violence in the aftermath of the Southport attack...
* Misinformation has stained recent elections. The government must act.
* “Are You Going to Contribute to the Chaos? Or Are You Going to Thread Through and Be the Expert?”
* From rumours to riots: How online misinformation fuelled violence in the aftermath of the Southport attack...
Highlights
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- How Disinformation Fed a Far-Right Riot After a Deadly Stabbing in England (The New York Times, 31 July)
- Wave of fake news targets Paris 2024 opening ceremony (France24, 29 July)
- Redefining AI for Africa: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Kenya’s Grassroots Movement (Tech Policy Press, 30 July)
- Russia vs Ukraine: the biggest war of the fake news era (Reuters, 31 July)
- To preserve their work — and drafts of history — journalists take archiving into their own hands (Nieman Lab, 31 July)
1. Academia & Research
- Google demonetized The Heartland Institute in June. Here are 4 more channels that appear to violate its misinformation policy. (Media Matters for America, 31 July)
- Liars know they are lying: differentiating disinformation from disagreement (Nature, 31 July)
- Study reveals impact of concern about misinformation on Americans' media consumption habits (Phys.org, 30 July)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Elon Musk Isn't Stopping Misinformation, He's Helped Spread It (Forbes, 31 July)
- Disinformation code needs formal place under DSA, regulators say (Euronews, 29 July)
- TikTok Has a Nazi Problem (WIRED, 29 July)
- Did social media fan the flames of riot in Southport? (BBC, 31 July)
- Senacon exige que plataformas disponibilizem dados para pesquisadores (*desinformante, 31 July)
3. Russia & Ukraine
- Elections are still battlefields for a disappointed Kremlin (EUvsDisinfo, 31 July)
- Whereabouts unknown Growing list of missing Russian political prisoners fuels speculation of an imminent swap (Meduza, 31 July)
- Russia is relying on unwitting Americans to spread election disinformation, US officials say (AP News, 30 July)