Docket+ 29 July

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Highlights

1. ElectionRumors2022: A Dataset of Election Rumors on Twitter During the 2022 US Midterms (ArXiv, 22 July)
2. The Surge of Gendered and Racial Attacks on Kamala Harris was Predictable. Social Media Platforms Still Aren’t Prepared (Tech Policy Press, 24 July)
3. 2024 Paris Olympics Misinformation Tracking Center (NewsGuard, 23 July)
4. The Need for a Strategic Approach to Disinformation and AI-Driven Threats (RUSI, 25 July)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. The Illusion of Power: Why Privacy Shouldn't Depend on VPNs and Related Tech (Tech Policy Press, 23 July)
2. What TrustCon's agenda says about T&S right now (Everything in Moderation, 22 July)
3. Forty Thousand Fake Twitter Profiles: A Computational Framework for the Visual Analysis of Social Media Propaganda (SSRN, 24 July)
4. The Role of Mental Representation in Sharing Misinformation Online (OSF, 20 June)

AI and LLMs

1. Two AI Transparency Concerns that Governments Should Align On (Tech Policy Press, 22 July)
2. The AI Dangers of a Second Trump Presidency (Tech Policy Press, 22 July)

Availability and spread of information

1. Main manuscript for “Partisans neither expect nor receive reputational rewards for sharing falsehoods over truth online” (Oxford Academic, 24 July)

1.2 World News