Docket+ 26 October
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Below the paywall today -
* Digital Safety Tips for Journalists Covering the Midterm Elections
* Large language models for computational social science
* After a $25 Billion Deception Ruling, Why Trust Meta with an AI Agent?
* Digital Safety Tips for Journalists Covering the Midterm Elections
* Large language models for computational social science
* After a $25 Billion Deception Ruling, Why Trust Meta with an AI Agent?
Highlights
- US voters are angry. But on tariffs and war, the midterms won’t bring quick change (Chatham House, 22 October)
- Frontier AI and Independent Evaluations: Some Inconvenient Questions (Just Security, 22 October)
- ISD’s Milo Comerford discusses new documentary on the Com at UK Parliament (ISD, 22 October)
- What will end Trump’s back-and-forth approach toward Russia and Ukraine (Atlantic Council, 23 October)
- 2026 POLL TOPLINES: AI, Data Centers, and U.S. Latino Voters (DDIA, 23 October)
- Modeling Discourse Profiles in Climate Misinformation Discourse (arXiv, 17 October)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- The Pentagon Has a Big Tech Problem (Tech Policy Press, 26 October)
- A Rejoinder to Healey and Snyder: Engaging on Stability (Lawfare, 26 October)
Images & Visualisations
- MiD-VLM: Detecting and Grounding Global Semantic Misinformation in Image-Caption Pairs (arXiv, 23 October)