Docket+ 24 March

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Highlights

1. 3rd EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats (EEAS, March)
2. International Approaches to Research on the Information Environment (CEIP, 17 March)
3. CySoc 2025 International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats, 23-26 June: Call for submissions
4. CDC Clone Site, Rife with False Vaccine Claims, Hosted by Group Previously Led by HHS Secretary (InfoEpi, 21 March)
5. National Threat Assessment 2025, Norway (PST, 2025)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. The Next Step in Social Media Data Access: How to Turn Rules into Reality (Tech Policy Press, 19 March)
2. The dark side of the Internet: Fueling misinformation in the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 US Presidential Election (Sage, 18 March)
3. Finding fake accounts: Substack edition (Conspirator Norteño, 21 March)
4. The Ideal Influencer: How Influencer Coaches and Platforms Construct Creators as Monetizing for the Right Reasons (Sage, 12 March)

AI & LLMs

1. More people saw these AI-generated ED "remedies" than read The New York Times (Faked Up, 19 March)
2. Celebrating 1 Billion Downloads of Llama (Meta, 18 March)
3. A Peek Behind the Curtain: Using Step-Around Prompt Engineering to Identify Bias and Misinformation in GenAI Models (ArXiv, 19 March)
4. AI and Electoral Manipulation: From Misinformation to Demoralization (SSRN, 14 March)
5. Large language models can consistently generate high-quality content for election disinformation operations (Plos One, 17 March)

1.2 World News 

1. A threat actor that can do both (Memetic Warfare, 19 March)
2. Cross-platform multilingual campaign amplifies biolabs conspiracy targeting US and Armenia (DFRLab, 19 March)
3. Gender-Based Violence in Contemporary Hungary: Progress in Recognition and Backlash in Policies (Oxford Academic, 18 March)
4. Platform imperialism and disinformation in Aotearoa-New Zealand (Sage, 17 March)
5. How authoritarianism and extraversion relate to censorship (T&F, 17 March)

Russia & Ukraine

1. The old deceiver (EUvsDisinfo, 20 March)
2. Moscow’s failed attempt to pressure Moldova via gas deliveries (EUvsDisinfo, 15 March)

1.3 Elections & Democracy

1. Beyond Disinformation: How DSA Risk Assessments Ignore Democracy’s Real Threats (Tech Policy Press, 19 March)
2. An existential threat: Disinformation ‘single biggest risk’ to Canadian democracy (DFRLab, 19 March)
3. The Irresistible Allure of Charismatic Leaders? Populism, Social Identity, and Polarisation (Cogitatio, 18 March)
4. Electoral Turnout of Non‐Citizens Under Voluntary and Compulsory Voting: Evidence From Chile (Cogitatio, 18 March)
5. Double tap democracy: political authenticity in the TikTok era (Sage, 19 March)
6. Policy Review: Countering Disinformation in the Digital Age - Policies and Initiatives to Safeguard Democracy in Europe (Sage, 19 March)
7. A Narrow Path to Victory: Robert Fico, Smer-SD, and the 2023 Elections in Slovakia (Sage, 19 March)