Docket+ 23 September

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Highlights

1. Seven Deadly Sins of Bad Open Source Research (GIJN, 13 September)
2. The difficulty of understanding intent (Everything in Moderation, 16 September)
3. Election Certification Processes and Guardrails (Brennan Center for Justice, 18 September)
4. Platform Politics – Katie Harbath (Campaign Trend, 18 September)
5. EVENT: Can We Rebuild Trust in the Information Environment? (CSMaP, 9 October)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. TAG Bulletin: Q3 2024 (Google, 12 September)
2. Algorithmic Impact Assessments at Scale: Practitioners’ Challenges and Needs (Trust & Safety Journal, 18 September)
3. A Multi-Stakeholder Approach for Leveraging Data Portability to Support Research on the Digital Information Environment (Trust & Safety Journal, 18 September)
4. History Has Already Discredited the TikTok Ban (Just Security, 14 September)

AI & LLMs

1. LISTEN: AI and Human Rights: A Balancing Act (Anchor Change, 19 September)
2. Characteristics and Prevalence of Fake Social Media Profiles with AI-generated Faces (Trust & Safety Journal, 18 September)
3. NTIA’s Balanced Approach: Supporting Open Foundation Models While Tackling AI Misuse (Tech Policy Press, 18 September)
4. Stereo-Typing: LLM Chatbots’ Appearance of Typing can Increase Belief in a False Stereotype (OSF, 18 September)
5. LLMs as information warriors? Auditing how LLM-powered chatbots tackle disinformation about Russia's war in Ukraine (ArXiv, 16 September)
6. Chatbots and basic arithmetic: Prompting an LLM to write Python code to do simple math is more efficient and more accurate than having the LLM attempt to do the math itself (Conspirator Norteño, 20 September)

1.2 World News 

1. Investigating State Attacks on Exiles: Lessons from The Washington Post’s ‘Repression’s Long Arm’ Series (GIJN, 16 September)
2. Fake it off: AI-generated Taylor Swift pics spark controversy (DFRLab, 17 September)
3. “Let them feel pain”: Pro-SAF social media accounts celebrate and distort reports of airstrikes (Centre for Information Resilience, 13 September)
4. The UK Riots, Misinformation and Foreign Interference: A Smoking Gun or Something Else? (GNET, 18 September)