Docket+ 26 January
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Below the paywall this morning -
* Weaponising winter: how pro-Russian outlets justify strikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure
* The Hemisphere of Exceptions
* Unpacking the Rise of 'Smart Authoritarianism' in China...
* Weaponising winter: how pro-Russian outlets justify strikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure
* The Hemisphere of Exceptions
* Unpacking the Rise of 'Smart Authoritarianism' in China...
Highlights
LISTEN - Iran offline: How a government can turn off the internet (NPR, 26 January)
- Beyond the block: How adaptable Russian FIMI and Telegram’s gaps evade EU sanctions (EUvsDisinfo, 26 January)
- Alex Pretti: Analysing Footage of Minneapolis CBP Shooting (Bellingcat, 25 January)
- The Post-America Era (Dog Shirt Daily, Benjamin Wittes, 23 January)
- Examining the Relationship Between Health Literacy and Vaccine Hesitancy: The Case of Prospective Science Teachers (T&F, 23 January)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- Poland’s DSA Veto Shows How National Politics Can Stall EU Tech Rules (Tech Policy Press, 23 January)
- Six years, two presidents, and one app: TikTok’s U.S. saga explained (Rest of World, 22 January)
- The case against efficiency: friction in social media (Nature, 22 January)
- QUAIL: Quantization Aware Unlearning for Mitigating Misinformation in LLMs (arXiv, 21 January)
- EU launches formal investigation into X and Grok over sexual images (The Record, 26 January)