DisinfoDocket 8 December 2025
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Highlights
- Europe Fined X, But It's Still Avoiding the Real Threat to Democracy (Tech Policy Press, 6 December)
- X cuts off the European Commission’s ad account after being fined €120 million (The Verge, 7 December)
- AI misinformation may have paradoxical consequences (The Economist, 4 December)
- Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script (The Guardian, 7 December)
1. Academia & Research
- From Hashtags To Health Literacy: A Systematic Study Of Depression Content On TikTok And Instagram (OSF, 4 December)
2. Platforms & Technology
- The hidden Kenyan workers training China’s AI models (Rest of World, 4 December)
- Elon Musk's X bans European Commission from making ads after €120m fine (BBC, 8 December)
3. Russia & Ukraine
- Anatomy of the ‘most difficult’ issue in the Russia–Ukraine peace talks: territory (Meduza, 8 December)