DisinfoDocket 14 January

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Highlights

1. Public Attitudes on U.S. Intelligence (2023-2024) (Lawfare, 13 January)
2. Russia lost Venezuela. Putin won everything else (Coda Story, 13 January)
3. Why people believe misinformation even when they’re told the facts (The Conversation, 14 January)
4. Explaining Trump’s Claim That Venezuela ‘Stole’ U.S. Oil (Fact Check, 14 January)

1. Academia & Research

1. How to improve vaccine uptake: a huge study offers clues (Nature, 13 January)
2. VeriTaS: The First Dynamic Benchmark for Multimodal Automated Fact-Checking (arXiv, 13 January)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. Grok is an Epistemic Weapon (Tech Policy Press, 13 January)
2. TikTok Shop Showed Me Search Suggestions for Products With Nazi Symbolism (WIRED, 14 January)

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. Putin is weaponizing winter as Russia tries to freeze Ukraine into submission (Atlantic Council, 13 January)
2. ‘Strong countries don’t treat allies like this’: Meduza’s sources say Russian elites are questioning how Putin’s inaction on Venezuela and Iran fits with a ‘multipolar world’ (Meduza, 14 January)