Docket+ 8 June

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Highlights

WATCH - Recidivism with Katherine Pompilio: Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Katherine Pompilio to discuss her investigation of recidivism amongst January 6th pardonees (Benjamin Wittes, Dog Shirt Daily, 5 June)

1. Kremlin tells Russian media to portray Pashinyan’s election win with under 50% as a ‘loss’ (Meduza, 8 June)
2. AI ‘Regulation’ in the Chokepoint State (Just Security, 8 June)
3. The Great Data Standoff: Researchers vs. Platforms Under the Digital Services Act (arXiv, 3 June)
4. The European Peace Facility Factsheet (EEAS, 8 June)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Google’s ‘New Era for AI Search’ May Threaten Democracy (Tech Policy Press, 8 June)
2. Tracing Digital Links Between Viory and Ruptly (Bellingcat, 4 June)
3. Meet the journalists training the AI models that might replace them (Reuters Institute, 5 June)
4. Probing Multimodal Large Language Models on Cognitive Biases in Chinese Short-Video Misinformation (arXiv, 5 June)
5. Community Notes as debunking intervention: Correction design and topic context determine effectiveness (OSF, 5 June)
6. The Compute Coalition: How to Build the Future of AI in the Free World (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 8 June)

Images & Visualisations

1. DataXflowGen for GenAI-driven model generation (Nature, 6 June)