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Docket+ 30 September

Docket+ is a weekly roundup of the latest influence operations-related academic research, events and job opportunities.
Docket+ 30 September
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Highlights

  1. Officials Can’t Go Rogue on Election Certification (Brennan Center for Justice, 24 September)
  2. How pro-Kremlin influencers spread unfounded connections between Ukraine and a would-be Trump assassin (DFRLab, 23 September)
  3. Lodging complaints against platform power: how Lebanese journalists and activists experience reporting mechanisms, platform failures, and techno-alienation (T&F, 22 September)
  4. Context matters in social media (Science, 26 September)
  5. A study found Facebook’s algorithm didn’t promote political polarization. Critics have doubts (Science, 26 September)
  6. OPPORTUNITY: Researcher studying online m/disinformation (Science Feedback)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

  1. Resisting the Tech Coup: A Conversation with Marietje Schaake (Tech Policy Press, 22 September)
  2. X Polls Skew Political Realities of US Presidential Elections (Tech Policy Press, 20 September)
  3. Crypto-scam hosts pop-up livestream featuring a deepfaked Elon Musk (DFRLab, 25 September)
  4. Telegram shifts platform policy, pledging cooperation with authorities following CEO’s arrest (ISD, 24 September)
  5. Ethical issues and unintended consequences of digitalization and platformization (SAGE, 25 September)
  6. TikTok’s Continued Commitment to Combating Disinformation Under the EU Code of Practice (TikTok, 24 September)

AI & LLMs

  1. United States and Eight Companies Launch the Partnership for Global Inclusivity on AI (US Department of State, 23 September)
  2. AI Liability for Intellectual Property Harms (Lawfare, 23 September)
  3. India’s Experiments With AI in the 2024 Elections: The Good, The Bad & The In-between (Tech Policy Press, 25 September)
  4. A list of AI moderation ideas, ranked by me (Everything in Moderation, 24 September)
  5. Platforms fail to label and remove AI-generated and manipulated election content (ISD, 19 September)
  6. AI-Enabled Influence Operations: Threat Analysis of the 2024 UK and European Elections (CETaS, September)
  7. LlamaPartialSpoof: An LLM-Driven Fake Speech Dataset Simulating Disinformation Generation (ArXiv, 23 September)
  8. LLM Echo Chamber: personalized and automated disinformation (ArXiv, 24 September)
  9. Believing ChatGPT: perceived truthfulness of AI-generated political themed headlines and its relationship with ideology and congruence. (OSF, 20 September)

1.2 World News 

  1. How the Venezuelan regime weaponized video and messaging apps to persecute dissidents (DFRLab, 23 September)
  2. The Dynamics of Misinformation Sharing: The Mediated Role of News-Finds-Me Perception and the Moderated Role of Partisan Social Identity (T&F, 24 September)
  3. Profiling Misinformation Susceptibility (OSF, 24 September)

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