Docket+ 23 June

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Highlights

1. Israel–Iran: Monitoring updates, verifying damage and debunking misinformation (CIR, 18 June)
2. Misguided: Where Misinformation Starts, How It Spreads, and What to Do About It (Columbia University Press)
3. The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding (Zenodo, 19 June)
4. Disrupting malicious uses of AI: June 2025 (OpenAI, 5 June)
5. Advocating for a community-centred model for responding to potential information harms (Nature, 16 June)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Is Internet Content Too Engaging? (Lawfare, 16 June)
2. Tech Companies Are Abandoning Diversity to Satisfy Trump. It Will Hurt Them in the Long Run (Tech Policy Press, 18 June)
3. Discovering Coordinated Processes From Social Online Networks (ArXiv, 15 June)
4. Communicating about sexual violence on TikTok: A content analysis (Sage, 19 June)
5. Seeing through the fake: how users detect and interpret deepfakes (T&F, 17 June)

AI & LLMs

1. The Proposed AI Moratorium Will Harm People with Disabilities. Here’s How. (Tech Policy Press, 19 June)
2. Misinformation by Omission: The Need for More Environmental Transparency in AI (ArXiv, 18 June)
3. Passing the Turing Test in Political Discourse: Fine-Tuning LLMs to Mimic Polarized Social Media Comments (ArXiv, 17 June)

1.2 World News 

1. Lessons from Resisting Big Tech Power in Southeast Asia (Tech Policy Press, 19 June)
2. The curious case of missing manhood: How a rumour became a foreign weapon (EUvsDisinfo, 13 June)
3. Digital Death Spiral: How Analytics Hastened the Republican Party’s Descent into Trumpism (Oxford Academic, June)