Docket+ 19 January
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Below the paywall today -
* Building a common operational picture of FIMI: Using IMS to strengthen technical attribution and disruption
* Dynamics of Russian anti-war discourse on X (Twitter): a computational analysis using NLP and network methods
* Grok’s biggest danger isn’t what it says — it’s where it lives...
* Building a common operational picture of FIMI: Using IMS to strengthen technical attribution and disruption
* Dynamics of Russian anti-war discourse on X (Twitter): a computational analysis using NLP and network methods
* Grok’s biggest danger isn’t what it says — it’s where it lives...
Highlights
- Glass Onion: Peeling Back the Layers of a Pro-China Online Ecosystem (Graphika, 13 January)
- Transforming Belarus from a Russian asset to a buffer state for European security (Chatham House, 14 January)
- Eight ways AI will shape geopolitics in 2026 (Dispatches, Atlantic Council, 15 January)
- Iran with Ari Tabatabai (Benjamin Wittes, Dog Shirt Daily, 15 January)
Lawfare Live: Trials of the Trump Administration, Jan. 16
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- Why AI could mark the end of Big Tech’s invincibility (Semafor, 9 January)
- Privacy-preserving cyberthreat detection in decentralized social media with federated cross-modal graph transformers (Nature, 13 January)
LISTEN - How Trump's AI Policy Promotes Ethnonationalism (Tech Policy Press, 18 January)
Availability and spread of information
- How Algorithmic Systems Automate Inequality (Tech Policy Press, 16 January)
- MultiCaption: Detecting disinformation using multilingual visual claims (arXiv, 16 January)
- Iranian state TV feed reportedly hijacked to air anti-regime messages (The Record, 19 January)
- French Response, the foreign ministry's X account for trolling disinformation (Le Monde, 18 January)