Docket+ 18 August

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Highlights

1. Election Report: Assessment of Foreign Manipulation and Interference in the 2025 Polish Presidential Election (ISD, 11 August)
2. AI content is tainting preprints: how moderators are fighting back (Nature, 12 August)
3. People still don't get T&S — and that's a problem (Everything in Moderation, 12 August)
4. Turning strategy into praxis: Lessons in hybrid threat deterrence (Hybrid CoE, August)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Conspiracy theories as engines of connection for enriched public debates on emerging technologies (Nature, 13 August)
2. In an Age of Information Gatekeeping, Don't Just Google It (Tech Policy Press, 11 August)

AI & LLM

1. Never Compromise to Vulnerabilities: A Comprehensive Survey on AI Governance (ArXiv, 12 August)
2. The Perils of Chart Deception: How Misleading Visualizations Affect Vision-Language Models (ArXiv, 13 August)
3. Liberal Democracies Are Retreating From AI Safety (Lawfare, 11 August)

Availability and spread of information

1. Media matters: a mixed-method look into the research on misinformation and communication over 30 years (Oxford Academic, 12 August)

1.2 World News 

1. One Platform, Four Languages: Comparing English, Spanish, Hindi, and Russian YouTube (SAGE, 13 August)
2. Online government disinformation, censorship, and civil conflict in authoritarian regimes (SAGE, 11 August)
3. Disinformation and Subversion: Tracing a Definition from National Security Threat to Silly Little Lies (T&F, 13 August)
4. Brazil’s Digital Sovereignty Is Under Attack: How Courts, Platforms, and Constitutional Law Are Redefining Democracy Online (Just Security, 13 August)

Russia & Ukraine

1. The collective securitization of ‘disinformation’ and the EU's ban on Russia Today and Sputnik (Oxford Academic, 11 August)
2. Genocide Claims, Peace Enforcement and Proxy Regions: Disinformation from Georgia to Ukraine (EUvsDisinfo, 8 August)
3. Lukashenka’s ongoing retaliation against Belarusians (EUvsDisinfo, 9 August)
4. Alaska and the illusion of strength (EUvsDisinfo, 14 August)