Docket+ 14 October

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Highlights

1. How Militia Groups Exploit Disasters (InfoEpi, 7 October)
2. The Future of our Information Environment (Anchor Change, 9 October)
3. Covert Campaigns: Safeguarding Encrypted Messaging Platforms from Voter Manipulation (NYU Stern, October)
4. Tracking the Weaponization of America's Political System in Favor of Disinformation—And Its Export Abroad (Tech Policy Press, 9 October)
5. Mysterious cross-border influence campaign sparks election controversy in Moldova (DFRLab, 8 October)

OPPORTUNITY: Director of Strategy and Operations, Center for an Informed Public

EVENT: Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality, a book talk with Renée DiResta, author and associate research professor for Tech & Public Policy and Massive Data Institute (McCourt School of Public Policy, 15 October)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Risks vs. Harms: Youth & Social Media (Data: Made not Found, 8 October)
2. Impact of gist intervention on automated system interpretability and user decision making (Springer, 2024)
3. The Right Lessons from the Flap Over X in Brazil (Tech Policy Press, 9 October)
4. Big Tech is Trying to Burn Privacy to the Ground–And They’re Using Big Tobacco’s Strategy to Do It (Tech Policy Press, 9 October)
5. The Evolution of Online Political Advertising: A Conversation with Who Targets Me's Sam Jeffers (Tech Policy Press, 11 October)

AI & LLMs

1. This barndominium does not exist, part III: A prolific Facebook generative AI spam farm may be spreading to X (Conspirator Norteño, 11 October)
2. Maintaining the Rule of Law in the Age of AI (Just Security, 9 October)
3. Dismantling AI Data Monopolies Before it’s Too Late (Tech Policy Press, 9 October)
4. Large language models (LLMs) and the institutionalization of misinformation (Science Direct, 10 October)
5. Outsourcing, Augmenting, or Complicating: The Dynamics of AI in Fact-Checking Practices in the Nordics (SAGE, 9 October)

Availability and spread of information

1. The Crisis of Misinformation and Dark Creativity (OSF, 7 October)
2. The legitimation of screenshots as visual evidence in social media: YouTube videos spreading misinformation and disinformation (SAGE, 6 October)

1.2 World News 

1. Dawn of the Thirtieth Day:720 Hours Remain (Memetic Warfare, 9 October)
2. TikTokers are spreading North Korean propaganda to sell supplements (User Mag, 9 October)
3. Misinformation research needs ecological validity (Nature, 7 October)
4. When Do South Koreans Support Government Restrictions on Media? The Roles of Partisanship and Democratic Support (T&F, 11 October)

Russia & Ukraine

1. Georgian Dream promotes images of bombed Ukrainian cities as an electoral fearmongering tactic (DFRLab, 4 October)
2. Doppelganger websites persist one month following US government seizures (DFRLab, 9 October)
3. Flowers for the boss (EUvsDisinfo, 10 October)

Israel & Palestine

1. Analysis: five online takeaways from the ongoing Mideast conflict (DFRLab, 7 October)