Docket+ 21 October

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Highlights

1. FIMI-ISAC Collective Findings I: Elections (FIMI ISAC, October)
2. Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy (Bill Adair)
3. Report on “Sleeper Agents” Bot Network (American Sunlight Project, 9 October)
4. Covert Campaigns: Safeguarding Encrypted Messaging Platforms from Voter Manipulation (NYU Stern, October)
5. The International Far-Right’s Impact on the UK Southport Riots (Alliance4Europe, 15 October)
6. Holding our digital ground: addressing gendered disinformation during elections and beyond (Centre for Information Resilience, 14 October)
7. Journalists Under Fire: U.S. Media Report Daily Threats, Harassment and Attacks at Home (IWMF, October)
8. Freedom on the Net 2024: The Struggle for Trust Online (Freedom House, October)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Sounding the Alarm on Digitally Enabled Sanctions Evasion (Lawfare, 16 October)
2. The Rise of the Compliant Speech Platform (Lawfare, 16 October)
3. Information Integrity by Design: The Missing Piece of Values-Aligned Tech (Tech Policy Press, 15 October)
4. Republicans, young adults now nearly as likely to trust info from social media as from national news outlets (Pew, 16 October)
5. Free Speech vs. Free Ride: Navigating the Supreme Court’s Social Media Paradox (Communications ACM, 11 October)

AI & LLMs

1. Apocalypse Later? The real impact of AI on the 2024 elections (Atlantic Council, 17 October)
2. Are Prompts All You Need?: Chatting with ChatGPT on Disinformation Policy Understanding (Wiley, 15 October)

Availability and spread of information

1. Mind Over Misinformation: Investigating the Factors of Cognitive Influences in Information Acceptance (Wiley, 15 October)

1.2 World News 

1. Contestation vs. conciliation: Social media political rhetoric fuelling the Ethiopia war, 2020-2022 (OSF, 12 October)
2. Social Media Memory of January 6: Content Analysis of Twitter One Year Later (Wiley, 15 October)
3. ‘Living in a post-truth era’? Online misinformation in everyday life in rural and urban China (T&F, 14 October)
4. Information and campaign effects in the 2023 Australian Voice referendum (T&F, 14 October)
5. On Fertile Ground: How Racial Resentment Primes White Americans to Believe Fraud Accusations (SSRN, 15 October)