Docket+ 16 March
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Below the paywall today -
* AI Used to Promote Non-Existent Evacuation Flights From the Middle East
* Targeting the grid, shaping the story: Russia’s dual assault on Ukraine
* The Laziness of the Crowd: Effort Aversion Among Raters Risks Undermining the Efficacy of X's Community Notes Program...
* AI Used to Promote Non-Existent Evacuation Flights From the Middle East
* Targeting the grid, shaping the story: Russia’s dual assault on Ukraine
* The Laziness of the Crowd: Effort Aversion Among Raters Risks Undermining the Efficacy of X's Community Notes Program...
Highlights
LISTEN - Google Employees Push Back on Government Surveillance Contracts (Tech Policy Press, 15 March)
- Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise after evidence outrage drove engagement, say whistleblowers (BBC, 16 March)
- When AI Moderation Becomes a Weapon: Ethiopia’s Mass Reporting Crisis (Inform Africa, 15 March)
- Narrative Integrity Risk: The Next Frontier in Financial Stability (Lawfare, 10 March)
- Protecting Civilians in Good Faith: A Joint Symposium on the Updated ICRC Commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention (Just Security, 16 March)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- When AI Runs the Operations: Autonomous Agents and the Future of Cyber Competition (Just Security, 16 March)
- Are AI Systems Incompatible with Data Privacy? (Tech Policy Press, 16 March)
- Western AI models “fail spectacularly” in farms and forests abroad (Rest of World, 12 March)
Images & Visualisations
- Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) explained (EUvsDisinfo, 15 March)