DisinfoDocket 10 December 2025

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Highlights

1. Closing the Allied Information Gap: How the UK can help build a shared defence (Hadley Newman for Chamber UK, page 84-85)
2. The war on disinformation is a losing battle (The Verge, 9 December)
3. UK sanctions Russian and Chinese firms suspected of being 'malign actors' in information warfare (Euronews, 9 December)
4. The cost of an unjust peace in Ukraine? An emboldened China. (Atlantic Council, 5 December)

1. Academia & Research

1. When GenAI Meets Fake News: Understanding Image Cascade Dynamics on Reddit (arXiv, 4 December)
2. A systematic review of social, political and geographic factors associated with eco-anxiety in children and young people (Nature, 10 December)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in search results (BBC, 9 December)
2. Are you in TikTok’s cat niche? What 121,000 videos reveal. (The Washington Post, 10 December)

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. US extradites member of Russian hacktivist group involved in critical infrastructure attacks (The Record, 10 December)
2. Putin’s India visit reveals New Delhi’s complicated strategy (ASPI, 9 December)