Disinfo dispatch No.53
Elon Musk & UK MPs continue to banter over X disinformation, former Wagner media operative explains disinfo operations, tracking a French telegram disinfo leader + 12 more stories from this week!
Hey, I’m Alan, & welcome to Geoshawk. Geoshawk curates news & research on digital influence, with sections on tech company’ news, election integrity, research/studies, & regional focuses on the USA, MENA, Russia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. Other regions are also featured though! If you’re a news junkie obsessed w/ politics, tech, & the world, you’re in the right place.
Tech Watch:
Europe’s press goes after Musk’s X (Politico, 15 November)
Global Miscellaneous News & Research:
Miscellaneous News & Research:
Survey demonstrates impact of misinformation on Spanish-language social media platforms (Phys, 19 November)
Nippon Steel claims union 'misinformation' in battle for U.S. Steel (Japan Times, 19 November)
Norwegian startup Factiverse wants to fight disinformation with AI (Tech Crunch, 17 November)
Other regions:
Elon Musk to ‘summon MPs to US to explain threats to American citizens’ (Guardian, 21 November)
'Mirror Politics' And Deepfakes: How Authoritarians Are Honing Their Disinformation Game (RFERL, 18 November)
Reporters Without Borders presses charges against X in France for spreading fake news (Euronews, 15 November)
Regions:
USA
Dr. Oz, Tapped to Run Medicare, Has a Record of Promoting Health Misinformation (NYT, 20 November)
US teachers are joining the battle against disinformation (Financial Times, 18 November)
Election denialism emerges on the left after Trump’s win (NBC News, 16 November)
Middle East
For Iran, disinformation comes just behind assassination (The Hill, 21 November)
Russia
Former Wagner media operative lifts the lid on Russian disinformation in CAR (Radio France Internationale, 21 November)
A former staffer exposes how Russia’s disinformation machine worked in Central African Republic (AP News, 21 November)
Freed U.S.-Russian Journalist Alsu Kurmasheva: ‘Our Work Right Now Is to Be a Witness to History’ (The Moscow Times, 21 November)
Russian interference in France: on the trail of a French Telegram disinformation ringmaster (Intelligence Online, 18 November)
Russia's federal censorship agency plans 'routine' tests disconnecting the Russian Internet from the global Internet (Meduza, 15 November)
Caucasus
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Central Asia