Docket+ 10 March

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Call for abstracts: The Paris Conference on AI & Digital Ethics
Sorbonne University, Paris, June 16^th and 17^th, 2025
https://paris-conference.com/
Submissions are welcome until March 15^th, 2025.   
Academic and industry researchers are invited to submit a contribution in one of the five following disciplines or related disciplines.

• Computational philosophy and social sciences
  •  Ethics and moral philosophy
  •  Political theory and science                          
  •  Statistics and computer sciences
  •  International relation
  •  Law

Highlights

1. IU's Observatory on Social Media defends citizens from online manipulation – the opposite of censorship (Indiana University, March)
2. The Truth is Warranted: The Impact of Voluntary Accountability on Misinformation (Preprint, 4 March)
3. When it comes to understanding AI’s impact on elections, we’re still working in the dark (Brookings, 4 March)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. The Common Sense Census: Media Use by Kids Zero to Eight (Common Sense Media, March)
2. An Alert to the World: The Role of Social Media Platforms in Bolsonaro’s Disinformation Campaign Targeting Brazil’s Democratic Institutions (Tech Policy Press, 5 March)
3. Engagement, user satisfaction, and the amplification of divisive content on social media (Oxford Academic, 5 March)
4. Should scientists ditch the social-media platform X? (Nature, 4 March)
5. Better Feeds: Algorithms That Put People First (Knight-Georgetown Institute, 4 March)

AI & LLMs

1. DeepSeek Points Toward U.S.-China Cooperation, Not a Race (Lawfare, 5 March)
2. Unmasking Digital Falsehoods: A Comparative Analysis of LLM-Based Misinformation Detection Strategies (ArXiv, 2 March)
3. Slopaganda: The interaction between propaganda and generative AI (ArXiv, 3 March)
4. Persuade Me if You Can: A Framework for Evaluating Persuasion Effectiveness and Susceptibility Among Large Language Models (ArXiv, 3 March)
5. An Empirical Analysis of LLMs for Countering Misinformation (ArXiv, 28 February)
6. Deepfake-Eval-2024: A Multi-Modal In-the-Wild Benchmark of Deepfakes Circulated in 2024 (ArXiv, 4 March)
7. Disinformation in the digital era: The role of deepfakes, artificial intelligence, and open-source intelligence in shaping public trust and policy responses (SSRN, 4 March)

Platform Announcements

1. Adversarial Threat Report, Fourth Quarter (Meta, 27 February)