DisinfoDocket 3 December 2025

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Highlights

1. When the press amplified false claims about Iraq, it failed its highest duty — and fueled a war (Poynter, 3 December)
2. Canada Needs Independent Researchers to Get AI Policy Right (Tech Policy Press, 3 December)
3. Squaring the circle on men’s health, online harms and gender-based violence (ISD, 3 December)
4. Hillary Clinton claims TikTok misinformation is influencing young people’s views on the Israel–Palestine conflict (The Independent, 3 December)

1. Academia & Research

1. HALT-PROP: Human-Annotated Lithuanian Textual Corpus for Propaganda Narratives and Techniques (Nature, 3 December)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. When Musk joined Trump, countries rolled out the red carpet for Starlink (Rest of World, 3 December)
2. How Existing Liability Frameworks Can Handle Agentic AI Harms (Lawfare, 3 December)
3. Lesson from Ukraine: US, Taiwan need interceptor drones and wide-area jammers (ASPI, 2 December)

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. ‘What’s the problem?’: Russia’s human rights chairman on censorship, blocked apps, and musician arrests (Meduza, 3 December)