Docket+ 13 October
Docket+ is a weekly roundup of the latest influence operations-related academic research, events and job opportunities.
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Highlights
- A New Approach in the Fight Against Transnational Violent Extremism is Needed (Just Security, 8 October)
- Is Article 21 of the DSA making an impact? (Everything in Moderation, 6 October)
- Generative AI and news report 2025: How people think about AI’s role in journalism and society (Reuters Institute, 7 October)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- Age Assurance Technologies and Online Safety (CETaS, 8 October)
- Trump’s State Department Wants to Use Tech Policy to Remake Europe In Its Image (Tech Policy Press, 7 October)
AI & LLMs
- When AI gets it wrong: False inference and political harm (OSF, 4 October)
- SocialHarmBench: Revealing LLM Vulnerabilities to Socially Harmful Requests (ArXiv, 6 October)
- Research on the influence mechanism of AI manipulation of the social media online public opinion climate on spreading disinformation (T&F, 9 October)
- LLM content moderation and user satisfaction: evidence from response refusals in Chatbot Arena (T&F, 8 October)
1.2 World News
- Is the World Confronting China’s Influence Operations? (Sage, 8 October)
- Gendered disinformation in the digital age: a Malaysian perspective (T&F, 7 October)
- NATO/EU synergies against information warfare: a “circulatory institutionalist” model of expert voluntarism (T&F, 9 October)