Docket+ 21 July

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Highlights

1. A Digital Resilience Toolkit for Women in Politics: 2nd Edition (She Persisted)
2. Nearly 3 in 4 Teens Have Used AI Companions, New National Survey Finds (Common Sense Media, 16 July)
3. Revue nationale stratégique 2025 (SGDSN, 14 July)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. The Cybersecurity Patchwork Quilt Remains Incomplete (Lawfare, 16 July)
2. Partners or Provocateurs? Private-Sector Involvement in Offensive Cyber Operations (Lawfare, 16 July)
3. The US Just Logged Off from Internet Freedom (Tech Policy Press, 16 July)
4. Keeping Up With The Hacktivists (Graphika, 16 July)
5. Multimodal Coordinated Online Behavior: Trade-offs and Strategies (ArXiv, 16 July)
6. DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter (Nature, 16 July)

AI & LLMs

1. Truth Sleuth and Trend Bender: AI Agents to fact-check YouTube videos and influence opinions (ArXiv, 11 July)
2. Large language models as disrupters of misinformation (Nature, 16 July)

Availability and spread of information

1. Continued memory for misinformation, continued trust in the sources that spread it: The effects of language and self-correction (PsyArXiv, 17 July)
2. Digitisation and information dissemination: Evaluating the effect of information spread on national conflict in Nigeria (SAGE, 16 July)

1.2 World News 

1. Evaluating Congressional Sentiment Toward the Iran Strike (Lawfare, 16 July)
2. International Views of China Turn Slightly More Positive (Pew, 15 July)
3. Fostering Youth Trust in the European Commission: Communication on Social Media as a Key Strategy (Cogitatio, 17 July)
4. Hyperbole in Arabic YouTube: a pragmalinguistic study of artificial intelligence discourse (Nature, 14 July)
5. National security versus freedom of speech: How media exposure, personal values, and media framing influence non-users’ support for a national ban on TikTok (SAGE, 16 July)
6. Credibility as a Double-Edged Sword: The Effects of Deceptive Source Misattribution on Disinformation Discernment on Personal Messaging (SAGE, 13 July)