Docket+ 11 November

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Highlights

1. What to expect from foreign threat actors following the 2024 US election (DFRLab, 5 November)
2. Inoculation and accuracy prompting increase accuracy discernment in combination but not alone (Nature, 4 November)
3. Bounty programme for novel evaluations and agent scaffolding (AI Safety Institute, 5 November)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Social Media Manipulation for Sale: Experiment on Platform Capabilities to Detect and Counter Inauthentic Social Media Engagement (NATO StratCom CoE, 4 November)
2. Telegram’s role in right-wing mobilization and rising US Election Day concerns (ISD, 4 November)
3. What Public Officials Need to Know About Posting on Social Media After Lindke v. Freed (Columbia University, 5 November)
   1. Social Media for Public Officials 2.0 (Columbia University, 5 November)
4. A feminist cybersecurity: addressing the crisis of cyber(in)security (Oxford Academic, 4 November)
5. Revisiting Game-Theoretic Control in Socio-Technical Networks: Emerging Design Frameworks and Contemporary Applications (ArXiv, 5 November)
6. Don’t blame search engines for sending users to unreliable sites (Nature, 6 November)
7. “I’m in the Bluesky Tonight”: Insights from a year worth of social data (Plos One, 5 November)
8. Trump’s potential impact on emerging and disruptive technologies (The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 6 November)
9. With or without X: can journals engage critically on and with social media owned by tech billionaires? (T&F, 6 November)
10. Beyond the margin of error: a systematic and replicable audit of the TikTok research API (T&F, 7 November)
11. Infinitesimal Interference Has Substantial Impact: Quantifying the Influence of Minimal Bot Presence on Consensus Formation in Social Networks (SSRN, 6 November)

AI & LLMs

1. AI-Enabled Influence Operations: How to Protect the 2024 US Election (CETaS, 4 November)
2. AMREx: AMR for Explainable Fact Verification (ArXiv, 2 November)

1.2 World News 

1. The Rise and Fall of a Mideastern Pasargard (Memetic Warfare, 6 November)
   1. New Tradecraft of Iranian Cyber Group Aria Sepehr Ayandehsazan aka Emennet Pasargad (Israel National Cyber Directorate, 30 October)
2. How mainstream Georgian media shaped perceptions of the foreign agent law protests (DFRLab, 4 November)
3. Trends in China’s US election interference illustrate its longer game (DFRLab, 4 November)
4. How to Become Right When You are Wrong: The Order of (Mis)Information Affects Event Memory (OSF, 4 November)
5. Confident judgments of (mis)information veracity are more, rather than less, accurate (OSF, 6 November)
6. Subversion: from covert operations to cyber conflict (Oxford Academic, 4 November)
7. The distinctive characteristics of bullshit: intention, meaningfulness, and source reliability (T&F, 5 November)