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Docket+ 20 October

Docket+ is a weekly roundup of the latest influence operations-related academic research, events and job opportunities.
Docket+ 20 October
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Highlights

  1. Explaining Twitter’s inability to effectively moderate content during the COVID-19 pandemic (Springer, 15 October)
  2. Engineered authenticity: Chinese influence operations on Facebook in Sri Lanka (Sanjana Hattotuwa, 10 October)
  3. How People Around the World View AI (Pew, 15 October)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

  1. Instagram Teen Accounts Will Be Guided by PG-13 Ratings (Meta, 14 October)
  2. Trump’s TikTok Deal Would Further Entrench Big Tech Surveillance (Tech Policy Press, 10 October)
  3. Ideology and polarization set the agenda on social media (Nature, 14 October)

AI & LLMs

  1. Before AI Exploits Our Chats, Let’s Learn from Social Media Mistakes (Tech Policy Press, 13 October)
  2. Closing the Gaps in AI Interoperability (Tech Policy Press, 15 October)
  3. California’s New AI Law Misses the Mark on Whistleblower Protections (Tech Policy Press, 15 October)
  4. Rescuing Democracy From The Quiet Rule Of AI (Noema, 13 October)
  5. Hijacking algorithmic bias: analyzing the political discourse around ChatGPT on social media (T&F, 16 October)
  6. The simulation of judgment in LLMs (PNAS, 13 October)

Availability and spread of information

  1. From spark to inferno: New model inspired by forest fires could explain why some ideas go viral (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 13 October)
  2. Historical Roots of Information Flows in Hybrid Media Systems (Cogitatio, 16 October)

1.2 World News 

  1. K-Pop Demon Doxxers (Memetic Warfare, 16 October)
  2. 101 TikTok accounts masquerading as real news spread misinformation to millions (Indicator, 15 October)
  3. Populist narrative power in a globalised infosphere: a cross-language analysis (Nature, 14 October)

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