Docket+ 15 December 2025
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Below the paywall today -
* Echoes of Automation: How Bots Shaped Political Discourse in Brazil
* Protecting truth in the era of AI mediation
* MI6 chief warns 'front line is everywhere' and signals intent to pressure Putin...
* Echoes of Automation: How Bots Shaped Political Discourse in Brazil
* Protecting truth in the era of AI mediation
* MI6 chief warns 'front line is everywhere' and signals intent to pressure Putin...
Highlights
EVENT - Lessons on countering foreign manipulation from Moldova’s 2025 elections (Atlantic Council, wednesday 17 December 2025 8:30am ET, Virtual Event)
- Are LLMs Good Safety Agents or a Propaganda Engine? (arXiv, 28 November)
- “X is the voice of the people”: How Elon Musk styles X as a newsroom (Nature, 15 December)
- Who “owns” 1956? (Peripheral Politics, 12 December)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- The “OrdinAIry People” Who Couldn’t Steal Christmas (Graphika, 10 December)
- A meta-analysis of the persuasive power of large language models (Nature, 12 December)
Availability and spread of information
- What Drives Our Trust? (OSF, 15 December)
- Human perception of audio deepfakes: the role of language and speaking style (arXiv, 10 December)
1.2 World News
- The Pentagon’s Operational Technology Problem (Lawfare, 15 December)