Geoshawk, a disinfo dispatch: No.32

Kazakhstan accuses David Cameron of misinfo, China lunar mission reignites anti-US space misinfo, SCOTUS ruling on misinfo, & African govs on high alert over Russian disinfo

Hey, I’m Alan, & welcome to Geoshawk. Geoshawk curates news & research on influence operations (IO), covering tech, election integrity, miscellaneous global stories, USA, MENA, Russia, Caucasus, & Central Asia.

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Tech Watch:

• Dominance, data, disinformation: Europe's fight with Big Tech (24 June, Techxplore)

Election Integrity:

• As the 2024 election nears, misinformation targeting Latinos gains attention (28 June, NPR)

• What Happened to Stanford Spells Trouble for the Election (25 June, NYT)

Miscellaneous News & Research:

• Misinformation is winning the war on misinformation (21 June, Vox)

Regions:

• USA

  • U.S., Japan, Philippines join to battle disinformation (28 June, Nikkei)

  • 'Power rivalry in space': China lunar mission fuels US misinformation (27 June, Phys)

  • How the biden administration is (not really) handling disinformation (27 June, WIRED)

  • Ohio Democrat introduces bill to protect against AI-generated election misinformation (27 June, The Hill)

  • SCOTUS Ruling Won't Stop Social Media Misinformation—But It's A Start (27 June, Forbes)

    • Supreme Court rejects effort to limit government communication on misinformation (Cyberscoop)

  • Influencers and popular podcasts fuel election disinformation among Black voters, report shows (25 June, NBC News)

  • Secretary Antony J. Blinken And Romanian Foreign Minister Luminita Odobescu At the Signing of a Memorandum of Understanding On Countering Foreign State Information Manipulation (21 June, U.S. Dept of State)

• MENA

  • The Forward is targeted by Russian disinformation campaign around Israel (27 June, Forward)

  • How YouTube Middle East is combating misinformation with generative AI (22 June, The National News)

• RUSSIA

  • African governments express rising alarm about Russian disinformation (27 June, Defense One)

  • The Kremlin’s disinformation narratives about the Summit on Peace in Ukraine (25 June, EUvDisinfo)

  • Poland has been fighting Russian disinformation since the first trains of refugees arrived from Ukraine. It's morphing into sabotage (21 June, ABC)

• CAUCASUS

  • The spies are coming (by Eurostar) (27 June, Politico)

• CENTRAL ASIA

  • Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry Accuses David Cameron of “Misinformation” (28 June, The Times of Central Asia)

  • Kazakhstan’s Attempts to Address Disinformation and Media Freedom (27 June, The Times of Central Asia)