Docket+ 11 August
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Highlights
- Investigation | Holding the line: Auditing the EU’s ban of Russian state media 3 years on (ISD, 5 August)
- The gender blind spot: How early reactions to violent attacks sideline misogyny (CIR, 6 August)
- Guide to Investigating Social Media Algorithms (GIJN, 4 August)
- Long-term resilience of online battle over vaccines and beyond (ArXiv, August)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- Sentiment analysis for deepfake X posts using novel transfer learning based word embedding and hybrid LGR approach (Nature, 3 August)
- New WhatsApp Tools and Tips to Beat Messaging Scams (Meta, 5 August)
- It’s Time to Rethink the Assumptions That Guide the Design of Tech Platforms (Tech Policy Press, 5 August)
New in TiCS w @DG_Rand @GordPennycook!
— Jennifer Allen (@_JenAllen) August 6, 2025
It’s been ~10yrs since misinfo research exploded, but our paradigms are stuck in the post-2016 “fake news” model
Time for new approaches:
o True/False → Content that misleads
o Belief → Behavior
o Eval interventions in ambiguous settings pic.twitter.com/Ewlivka1Xc
AI & LLMs
Multispin Physics of AI Tipping Points and Hallucinations (AI Podcast)
- Multispin Physics of AI Tipping Points and Hallucinations (ArXiv, 5 August)
- Toward Verifiable Misinformation Detection: A Multi-Tool LLM Agent Framework (ArXiv, 5 August)
- Hallucination to Truth: A Review of Fact-Checking and Factuality Evaluation in Large Language Models (ArXiv, 5 August)
- How Trump’s AI Policy Could Compromise the Technology (Brennan Center, 1 August)
- The False Neutrality of Trump’s ‘Woke-Free’ AI Plan (Tech Policy Press, 5 August)
- Stopping AI Harm Starts with Protecting Whistleblowers (Tech Policy Press, 6 August)
- Why Context, Not Compute, is the Key to AI Governance (Tech Policy Press, 5 August)
1.2 World News
- Modeling the Impact of NATO Policy Actions on Taliban Disinformation Campaigns with Lotka-Volterra Models (ArXiv, 3 August)
- Americans divided on whether companies should make statements about political, social issues (Pew, 5 August)
- Singapore Slings Attribution (Memetic Warfare, 7 August)