Docket+ 17 March

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Highlights

1. Coevolution of network and attitudes under competing propaganda machines (Nature, 5 March)
2. Democratising Data Integration. Standardising Communication Protocols for Interoperable Data Processing and Analytics Tools in Strategic Information Environments (NATO StratCom CoE, 11 March)
3. CIR launches new ‘Gender Lens’ hub to spotlight research on gender-based violence and information manipulation (CIR, 7 March)
4. Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research (Science, 10 March)
5. Academic Misinformation Researchers are Still Under Attack (Just Security, 13 March)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. The Ideal Influencer: How Influencer Coaches and Platforms Construct Creators as Monetizing for the Right Reasons (SAGE, 12 March)
2. Breaking the bubble: A case study on the echo chamber effect in Instagram (SAGE, 11 March)

AI & LLMs

1. How we’re addressing the gap between AI capabilities and mitigations (AISI, 11 March)
2. The EU’s AI Act: Implications on Justice and Counter-Terrorism (GNET, 10 March)
3. Nation-state threats are targeting UK AI research (CETaS, 11 March)
4. Simulating Influence Dynamics with LLM Agents (ArXiv, 10 March)

1.2 World News 

1. How Disinformation Is Undermining Trust In Brazil’s Most Used Digital Public Infrastructure (Tech Policy Press, 10 March)
2. Belarus: Lukashenka’s sham election and shift towards a Chinese political model (EUvsDisinfo, 10 March)
3. Autocracies win the minds of the democratic public: how Japanese citizens are persuaded by illiberal narratives propagated by authoritarian regimes (T&F, 12 March)

Russia & Ukraine

1. Ukraine’s Hard-Won Approach to Strategic Communications and Counter-Disinformation: Lessons for Europe and Beyond (Tech Policy Press, 12 March)
2. Russia-linked Pravda network cited on Wikipedia, LLMs, and X (DFRLab, 12 March)
3. What we have learnt about FIMI after three years of full-scale war in Ukraine (EUvsDisinfo, 12 March)
4. Paint it camouflage (EUvsDisinfo, 13 March)
5. Reminder: Russia wants war, not peace (EUvsDisinfo, 7 March)
6. nstilling Doubts About Truth: Measuring the Impact of Tucker Carlson's Interview with Vladimir Putin Using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (ArXiv, 10 March)
7. Who supports EU sanctions against Russia’s war in Ukraine? The role of the defence of European values and other socioeconomic factors (T&F, 11 March)
8. How propaganda exploits the infrastructure of truth: A case study of #IStandWithPutin (T&F, 12 March)