Docket+ 22 September
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Hi! I'm Victoria and welcome to DisinfoDocket. Docket+ is a weekly roundup of the latest influence operations-related academic research, events and job opportunities.
Did you know that DisinfoDocket takes requests? If you have suggestions or relevant work that you'd like to see included, simply reply to this email and send us the details!
Highlights
- Conversations with Latinos: What Makes Content Stick? How U.S. Latinos Navigate Today’s Digital Information Ecosystem (DDIA, 16 September)
- OPPORTUNITY: Chief Innovation Officer and Belfer Center Director (Belfer Center)
- FDD Uncovers Likely Chinese Intelligence Operation That Began More Than 3 Years Ago (FDD, 11 September)
- Czechia: Country Election Risk Assessment | FIMI Response Team Report (ISD, 12 September)
I'm delighted to announce that the culmination of 8 months of the ASPI China team's work has now launched! We have spent months greatly expanding the scope and depth of ASPI's hugely popular product, the China Defence Universities Tracker.
— Bethany 貝書穎 (@BethanyAllenEbr) September 17, 2025
Here's what's new: pic.twitter.com/M5UIqFChUx
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- Assessing Tech Platform Responses Following the Assassination of Charlie Kirk (Tech Policy Press, 14 September)
- Untrustworthy Website Exposure and Election Beliefs: Selective Exposure and Ideological Asymmetry (Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 12 September)
- Should Social Media Platforms Permit Violating Content that is “Newsworthy”?(Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 12 September)
- CognitiveSky: Scalable Sentiment and Narrative Analysis for Decentralized Social Media (ArXiv, 14 September)
- Demystifying Misconceptions in Social Bots Research (Sage, 15 September)
AI & LLMs
- How Americans View AI and Its Impact on People and Society (Pew, 17 September)
- From political speeches to songs, how would Americans react if they found out AI was involved? (Pew, 17 September)
1.2 World News
- Where is my mind colonization? (Memetic Warfare, 16 September)
- “Information Modes” : A Framework for Trust and Information Seeking, (Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 12 September)
- How did assaults on science become the norm — and what can we do? (Nature, 16 September)