Docket+ 7 October

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Highlights

1. Dataset: Russian Foreign Ministry Twitter Accounts V2.0: Researchers publish a dataset of 403 Russian diplomatic X/Twitter accounts to support research on foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) despite growing research obstacles. (InfoEpi, 1 October)
2. Combating Misinformation Runs Deeper Than Swatting Away ‘Fake News’ (Scientific American, 30 September)
3. Social media spread conspiracy theories after Trump assassination attempt, but believing them was linked to interpersonal discussions (OSF, September)
4. Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions (Nature, 2 October)
5. EVENT: Connecting Research with Policy: Foreign Influence, Disinformation, and Generative AI (CSMaP, 16 October)
6. Open Call: Join the Open Social Incubator (University of Colorado)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Get the most from your frontline team: Frontline moderation teams can be a wealth of insights — but only if you give them the trust and time they need to deliver. Here are my tips for maximising their experience and skill (Everything in Moderation, 1 October)
2. We Know a Little About Meta’s “Break Glass” Measures. We Should Know More. (Tech Policy Press, 1 October)
3. The Societal Consequences of Digital Manipulation (SSRN, 2 October)
4. Political Communication and Conspiracy Theory Sharing on Twitter (SSRN, 1 October)
5. Cross-Lingual Cross-Domain Transfer Learning for Rumor Detection (SSRN, 30 September)

AI & LLMs

1. Unlocking AI for All: The Case for Public Data Banks (Lawfare, 2 October)
2. The Invisible Hand of Artificial Intelligence in Transnational Repression (Tech Policy Press, 2 October)
3. Fake It Until You Break It: On the Adversarial Robustness of AI-generated Image Detectors (ArXiv, 2 October)

Availability and spread of information

1. Cognitive Attraction and the Spread of Misinformation on Danish Facebook (OSF, 30 September)

1.2 World News 

1. Host of Operations Past (Memetic Warfare, 30 September)
2. Insights Into Chinese Use of Generative AI and Social Bots from the Career of a PLA Researcher (RAND, 1 October)
3. RSF launches The Propaganda Monitor, an investigative project on the geopolitics of propaganda (Reporters Without Borders, 30 September)
4. Indictment of Alleged Iranian Hackers of Trump Campaign Unsealed (Lawfare, 27 September)
5. Navigating truth and disinformation: A comparative analysis of generational responses to the 6 February 2023 earthquake in digital media in Türkiye (Science Direct, 15 October)