Docket+ 5 January 2026
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Good to see you all in 2026! Below the paywall today -
* The Generative AI Paradox: GenAI and the Erosion of Trust, the Corrosion of Information Verification, and the Demise of Truth
* Engineered lies: How 2025’s disinformation machinery hijacks our collective reality
* Misinformation Distorts Perceived Social Consensus, and Interventions Help Correct It...
* The Generative AI Paradox: GenAI and the Erosion of Trust, the Corrosion of Information Verification, and the Demise of Truth
* Engineered lies: How 2025’s disinformation machinery hijacks our collective reality
* Misinformation Distorts Perceived Social Consensus, and Interventions Help Correct It...
Highlights
- 2026 Poynter Journalism Prizes now open for entries until Feb. 13 (Poynter, 5 January)
- Antisemitism across the extremes: A deep-dive on US-based violent online networks (ISD, 22 December)
- Reverse Healthism and Antiscience Healthism: New Modes of Healthism in the Misinformation and COVID-19 Era (Wiley, 2 January)
- How Might Trump’s AI Executive Order Impact State Laws Regulating Nonconsensual Deepfakes? (Tech Policy Press, 19 December)
WATCH - Why PolitiFact has labeled 2025 the 'Year of the Lies' (PBS, 31 December)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- Entity resolution: the security technology you probably haven’t heard of (ASPI, 6 January)
- “X is the voice of the people”: How Elon Musk styles X as a newsroom (Nature, 15 December)
- Ofcom asks X about reports its Grok AI makes sexualised images of children (BBC, 5 January)
LISTEN - AI-powered software is helping misinformation spread online after disasters (NPR, 1 January)