Docket+ 14 July

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Highlights

1. Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament: Iran (UK House of Commons, 10 July)
2. A Deep Dive into X’s Community Notes: An Analysis of English and Spanish Contributions Between 2021 and 2025 (DDIA, 9 July)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Social media can support or undermine democracy — it comes down to how it’s designed (Nieman Lab, 7 July)
2. What Nigeria’s Challenge to WhatsApp’s Data Policy Means for Global Majority Countries (Tech Policy Press, 4 July)

AI & LLMs

1. A Survey on Proactive Defense Strategies Against Misinformation in Large Language Models (ArXiv, 5 July)
2. Reducing belief in conspiracy theories as they unfold using large language models (PsyArXiv)
3. Considering the Human Rights Impacts of LLM Content Moderation (Tech Policy Press, 6 July)

Availability and spread of information

1. The longitudinal relationships between misinformation sharing, fear of missing out and rumination among earthquake survivors: a cross-lagged panel network analysis (Nature, 7 July)

1.2 World News 

1. Assessing the Impact of Deep-fake Technology on Pakistani Society: A Case Study of Videos Targeting Women (SSRN, 6 July)
2. Risk analysis of disinformation weaponized against critical networks (Wiley, 7 July)
3. Disinformation elicits learning biases (OSF, 10 July)
4. Confident judgments of (mis)information veracity are more, rather than less, accurate (OSF, 10 July)

Russia & Ukraine

1. From denazification to the Golden Billion: an inductive analysis of the Kremlin’s weaponisation of digital diplomacy on Telegram (Nature, 3 July)
2. Retconning ‘Russiagate’: The CIA director encourages the rewriting of history (Lawfare, 9 July)
3. Pro-Kremlin actors push multilingual biolab hoax targeting Armenia (DFRLab, 7 July)
4. The Kremlin’s tale of the European bogeyman (EUvsDisinfo, 10 July)
5. Matryoshka’s Moldovan manipulation (EUvsDisinfo, 3 July)