Docket+ 9 March

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Highlights

1. Five Foreign Election Conspiracy Theories Making the Rounds Again (Lawfare, 9 March)
2. Iran: Will Trump declare early victory and risk leaving hardliners in charge? Independent Thinking podcast (Chatham House, 6 March)
3. Fauxmantic Overtures (Graphika, 9 March)
4. Modernizing South Asia’s Borders Through Data-Driven Research (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 4 March)
5. A Browser-based Open Source Assistant for Multimodal Content Verification (arXiv, 3 March)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Meta’s Oversight Board races to govern the AI surge (Rest of World, 5 March)
2. How Researchers Won a Legal Fight to Access X's Data Under the DSA (Tech Policy Press, 6 March)
3. Belief-Sim: Towards Belief-Driven Simulation of Demographic Misinformation Susceptibility (arXiv, 3 March)

Images & Visualisations

1. The AI-powered ‘forever wars’ start now (Coda Story, 6 March)
2. State actors are behind much of the visual misinformation about the Iran war (AP News, 7 March)

Availability and spread of information

1. Indonesia gives Meta 'stern warning' over disinformation (Reuters, 5 March)