Docket+ 15 September

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Highlights

1. RFK Jr.’s Lawyer Presents Skewed, Unpublished Study to the Senate as a Smoking Gun. It's Not. (InfoEpi Lab, 10 September)
2. Threat Intelligence Report: August 2025 (Anthropic, August)
3. Risk assessment: Moldova’s electoral environment in 2025 (DFRLab, 9 September)
4. “It’s like drinking from polluted water”: How the UK media gets immigration coverage wrong and how to fix it (Reuters Institute, 8 September)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Attach Text to Your Threads Posts and Share Longer Perspectives (Meta, 4 September)
2. Left of Post (Memetic Warfare, 9 September)
3. This staircase does not exist: The Facebook image spam treadmill rolls ridiculously onward (Conspirator Noreño, 7 September)
4. EU’s Telegram dilemma: the rise of unchecked influence (EUvsDisinfo, 8 September)
5. Human Rights in the Digital Domain (Cambridge University Press, November)
6. Report: Nudifying Apps on Meta Platforms are Violating EU Transparency Rules (American Sunlight Project, 10 September)

AI & LLMs

1. When the Vibes Are Off: The Security Risks of AI-Generated Code (Lawfare, 10 September)
2. AI misinformation is threatening emergency communications. Here’s how to fix that (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 7 September)

1.2 World News 

1. Building the Future U.S. Cyber Force (FDD, 9 September)
2. Analysis: China’s bid to rewrite the internet’s DNA (DFRLab, 5 September)
3. A Strained National Identity: Digital Polarisation and Nationalism in Jordan (ISD, 28 August)
4. The Polarization Paradox: How State Wealth and Online Media Consumption Affect Polarization (Wiley, 8 September)
5. The Shortcomings of Just War Theories and the Legitimacy of Just Peace (Cogitatio, 10 September)
6. The politicization of and misinformation about social-emotional learning (Science Direct, 10 September)
7. News Characteristics, Newsworthiness and Secondary Gatekeeping in Brazil: Influences of Right-Wing Authoritarianism (T&F, 10 September)
8. Last Week in Censorship: September 2-8, 2025 (American Sunlight Project, 8 September)

Russia & Ukraine

1. An anti-Ukrainian community on X: A gateway for Russian propaganda in the Czech information space (ISD, 4 September)
2. Out of the woodwork: Examining the global aspirations of The Base (ISD, 9 September)
3. Russian Influence Assets Converge on Moldovan Elections (Recorded Future, 3 September)