Docket+ 22 July

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Highlights

1. Perspectives on Trust and Safety Among Investors (Anchor Change, 18 July)
2. Self-Regulation Won’t Prevent Problematic Political Uses of Generative AI (Lawfare, 17 July)
3. Brazil Case Offers Insight on Predictable Misinformation Post-Trump Shooting (Tech Policy Press, 16 July)
4. Fake Cameroonian news sites spread pro-Russia, anti-France content (DFRLab, 16 July)
5. Community Notes and attempted assassinations (Conspirator Norteño, 20 July)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. The Case for Mandating Finer-Grained Control Over Social Media Algorithms (Tech Policy Press, 11 July)
2. DSA Showdown: Unpacking the EU's Preliminary Findings Against X (Tech Policy Press, 17 July)
3. TikTok Content Farms Use AI Voiceovers to Mass-Produce Political Misinformation (News Guard, 11 July)
4. Unveiling Scaling Laws in the Regulatory Functions of Reddit (ArXiv, 15 July)
5. Identifying Coordinated Activities on Online Social Networks Using Contrast Pattern Mining (ArXiv, 16 July)
6. How Negative Media Coverage Impacts Platform Governance: Evidence from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube (T&F, 17 July)
7. DTSP Releases Updated Safe Framework Specification for Assessments of Digital Products and Services (Digital Trust & Safety Partnership, 18 July)

Artificial Intelligence

1. Content Warfare: Combating Generative AI Influence Operations (Tech Policy Press, 12 July)
2. Interoperability in AI Governance: A Work in Progress (Tech Policy Press, 17 July)
3. Three key misconceptions in the debate about AI and existential risk (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 15 July)