Geoshawk Issue No.20

Apr 05, 2024

Alright, alright, alright!

Here are this week’s top Disinformation, Election Integrity, & related Tech news:

GLOBAL HIGHLIGHTS:

Fake Image Detection Market worth $3.9 billion by 2029 - Exclusive Report by MarketsandMarkets™ (Yahoo, 2 April)
The Islamic State’s Amaq goes viral: Premium-enabled terror content on X (ISD, 28 March)

ELECTION WATCH:

The Real Election Disinformation Threat Is Local (Forbes, 29 March)
Exclusive: YouTube Approved Ads Promoting Disinformation on India’s Election (TIME, 2 April)
How misinformation will be gender-based in Ghana’s upcoming elections (Poynter, 29 March)
China’s Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms (NYT, 2 April)

USA:

U.S., Finland Agree To Cooperate On Combating Foreign Disinformation (RFERL, 4 April)
From Pizzagate to the 2020 Election: Forcing Liars to Pay or Apologize (NYT, 3 April)

RUSSIA:

France to propose sanctions at EU level on Russian firms spreading disinformation (Reuters, 2 April)
Francophobes in the Kremlin (EUvsDisinfo, 4 April)
- (i.e. Kremlin disinfo targets the Macrons)
Russian disinformation on Ukraine has grown in scale and skill, warns Berlin (FT, 31 March)
Paris 2024: Russia seeking to undermine Games, says Emmanuel Macron (BBC, 4 April)
Russia: Journalists Antonina Favorskaya and Olga Komleva detained on charges of extremism (IFJ, 4 April)
New Russian propaganda clip appears to feature U.S. city councilor who reportedly joined Russian army after fleeing child pornography charges (Meduza, 4 April)

MENA:

Fake Mossad account spreads misinformation about airstrike that killed aid workers in Gaza (AP News, 2 April)
McDonald’s to buy its Israel franchise amid Gaza war, global backlash (Al-Monitor, 4 April)
How paid X accounts blamed Israel, Ukraine for the Baltimore bridge collapse (Politifact, 30 March)
Gaza aid convoy strike: What we know (BBC Verify, 4 April)

CAUCASUS:

CENTRAL ASIA:

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