Docket+ 14 August

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Highlights

1. Controlling bad-actor-AI activity at scale across online battlefields (ArXiv, August)
2. What Makes an Influence Operation Malign? (PCIO, 3 August)
3. The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
4. How to think about whether misinformation interventions work (Nature, 10 August)

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How should researchers determine whether misinformation interventions work?

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1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. The Anatomy of a Viral Tweet: Rage Farming Edition (Weaponised, 8 August)
2. Red-Teaming Finds OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard Still Spread Misinformation (NewsGuard, 8 August)
3. Navigating the gray areas of content moderation: Professional moderators’ perspectives on uncivil user comments and the role of (AI-based) technological tools (SAGE, 8 August)

1.2 World News

1. Young North Korean defectors’ new media practices in response to stereotypes by South Korean society (SAGE, 8 August)
2. A method for time-varying analysis of YouTube search results and related videos: The case of the war in Ukraine (SAGE, 6 August)

Russia & Ukraine

1. Deny, Deflect, Distract, Confuse, Repeat (EUvsDisinfo, 10 August)
2. Manipulate the info sphere, repress the people and build a cult to Lukashenka (EUvsDisinfo, 8 August)
   

1.3 Elections & Democracy

1. Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation (De Gruyter, 2024)
2. Individual differences in vulnerability to misinformation when forming impressions of political candidates (PsyArXiv, 8 August)
3. The Liar's Dividend: The Impact of Deepfakes and Fake News on Trust in Political Discourse (OSF, 10 August)
4. White Supremacy, Democrats, and Anti-Abortion Support (OSF, 12 August)