Docket+ 25 May
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Below the paywall today -
* Ukrainian Drone Incursions into Baltic States, Russian Electronic Warfare Countermeasures, and International Law
* Sampled social media data risk biased and inconsistent estimates of online social phenomena
* Disinformation in Practice: Threats, Actors, Mechanisms, and Constraints According to Professionals
* Ukrainian Drone Incursions into Baltic States, Russian Electronic Warfare Countermeasures, and International Law
* Sampled social media data risk biased and inconsistent estimates of online social phenomena
* Disinformation in Practice: Threats, Actors, Mechanisms, and Constraints According to Professionals
Highlights
- How hate spreads online and why it returns: Re-entrant phases driven by collective behavior (arXiv, 20 May)
- China and Russia’s strategic duo endures – but its limits are clear (Chatham House, 21 May)
- After Liability: Why the Landmark Social Media Verdicts Aren’t a Regulatory Fix (Tech Policy Press, 22 May)
- Every country should understand space as a warfighting domain (ASPI, 22 May)
- Platform architecture determines whether recommendation algorithms can shape information quality on social media (arXiv, 19 May)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- Don’t Count on Courts to Rein In Unregulated AI (Lawfare, 15 May)
- What AI race? China and U.S. AI worlds are tightly connected (Rest of World, 22 May)
- The domestic Russian ‘super-app’ that could create cross-border security risks (DFR Lab, 21 May)
- Meta settles school district lawsuit claiming addictive design harmed students' mental health (The Record, 22 May)
- Disentangling Interaction and Bias Effects in Opinion Dynamics of Large Language Models (arXiv, 22 May)