Docket+ 24 June

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Highlights

1. Manufacturing Deceit: How generative AI supercharges information manipulation (NED, 18 June)
2. Return of the RealSikhs: the fake network targeting Sikhs across the world despite platform takedowns (Centre for Information Resilience, 13 June)
3. Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024 (Reuters, Institute, June)
4. EUvsDisinfo: a Dataset for Multilingual Detection of Pro-Kremlin Disinformation in News Articles (ArXiv, 18 June)
5. Tucker Carlson Takes Putin’s Propaganda on Tour Down Under - Why Should Australians be Concerned? (Australian Institute of International Affairs, 21 June)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Moving Slow and Fixing Things: The United States could learn from Europe’s approach to incentivizing cybersecurity. (Lawfare, 20 June)
2. Platform Enabled Structural Harms & The Limits of the Current Accountability Regime (Tech Policy Press, 19 June)
3. Patriots Run Project network exposes Meta’s transparency failures (ISD, 13 June)
4. New research points to failures by YouTube in protecting children from harmful content (ISD, 18 June)
5. Who Checks the Checkers? Exploring Source Credibility in Twitter's Community Notes (ArXiv, 18 June)
6. The curious case of @hisvault_eth: In which an apparent AI chatbot turns out to be a troll of unknown origin operating a hijacked X account (Conspirator Norteño, 23 June)

AI

1. Forget Deepfakes: Social Listening Might be the Most Consequential Use of Generative AI in Politics (Tech Policy Press, 18 June)
2. Five Myths About How AI Will Affect 2024 Elections (Tech Policy Press, 20 June)