Docket+ 16 February
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Below the paywall today -
* As New START ends, disinformation about it continues
* What Bangladesh’s first post-Hasina election means for the country’s future
* How to cover a country cut out from the Internet? The battle to report on Iran from exile...
* As New START ends, disinformation about it continues
* What Bangladesh’s first post-Hasina election means for the country’s future
* How to cover a country cut out from the Internet? The battle to report on Iran from exile...
Highlights
- Interview with Ben Nimmo from OpenAI (EUvsDisinfo, 16 February)
- How middle powers can weather US and Chinese AI dominance (Chatham House, 16 February)
- Inauthentic networks fuel Poland’s border vigilante movement (DFR Lab, 11 February)
- Bracing for a cold front: Assessing Russian and Chinese strategic objectives and hybrid threat capabilities in the Arctic (Hybrid CoE, January 2026)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- The Sovereignty Gap in U.S. AI Statecraft (Lawfare, 16 February)
- Can India be a “third way” AI alternative to the U.S. and China? (Rest of World, 11 February)
- The EU’s Online Safety Moonshot Is Losing Altitude (Tech Policy Press, 16 February)
- AI hallucination risks and mitigation strategies (Nature, 13 February)
Availability and spread of information
- Americans’ Complicated Relationship With News (Pew Research Center, 11 February)
- Social media feeds: Algorithm redesign could break echo chambers and reduce online polarization (Phys, 10 February)
- Governing Social Media as a Public Utility: A Case for Sovereign Digital Infrastructure (arXiv, 12 February)