Docket+ 22 June
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Below the paywall today -
* Threats to UK democracy: Disinformation, foreign interference and declining public trust
* Warmongering NATO, peaceful Belarus, and Bulgaria’s “punishment”
* When a scholar is targeted, what should a university do?
* Threats to UK democracy: Disinformation, foreign interference and declining public trust
* Warmongering NATO, peaceful Belarus, and Bulgaria’s “punishment”
* When a scholar is targeted, what should a university do?
Highlights
- Can public demand for impartial news survive platforms and polarisation? (Reuters Institute, 16 June)
- Pressure Points Part 3: China in the Pacific and Indian oceans (ASPI, 22 June)
- CATCH-ME if you RAG: a dataset of Contextually Annotated multi-Turn Counterspeech against Hate and Misinformation Exchanges (arXiv, 18 June)
LISTEN - Why Armenia Voted For a Pro-Europe Future (Carnegie Politika, 18 June)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- When Americans choose Chinese AI (Rest of World, 17 June)
- Reading the room: Redesigning intelligence product for the AI age (ASPI, 16 June)
Images & Visualisations
- From broadcast news to streaming and platforms: The changing landscape of news video (Reuters Institute, 16 June)
- AI Didn’t Kill Design—It Exposed It (Tech Policy Press, 18 June)
- Human detection of AI-generated faces and voices is not domain-general (Nature, 22 June)
Availability and spread of information
- Fact-checkers wrestle with how to minimize AI’s problems (Poynter, 22 June)