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Docket+ 13 January

Docket+ is a weekly roundup of the latest influence operations-related academic research, events and job opportunities
Docket+ 13 January
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Highlights

  1. Disinformation campaign uncovered by researchers ahead of Croatian presidential run-off (CIR, 8 January)
  2. Georgian Dream exploits Western politicians and commentators for its propaganda goals (DFRLab, 7 January)
  3. The Great Decentralization: What happens when sprawling online communities fracture into politically homogenous, self-governing communities? (Noēma, 7 January)
  4. Measuring Changes Caused by Generative Artificial Intelligence: Setting the Foundations (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 9 January)
  5. A Comprehensive Review of DISARM Framework and its Compatibility with Related Frameworks Used to Model Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (ADAC.io, 9 January)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

  1. Systemic Risks of Dominant Online Platforms: A Scoping Review (SSRN, 2 January)
  2. Evaluating the effect of viral posts on social media engagement (Nature, 3 January)
  3. Facing & mitigating common challenges when working with real-world data: The Data Learning Paradigm (Science Direct, 8 January)
  4. Mapping the terrain of social media misinformation: A scientometric exploration of global research (Science Direct, February)

AI & LLMs

  1. Who Wrote This? Zero-Shot Statistical Tests for LLM-Generated Text Detection using Finite Sample Concentration Inequalities (ArXiv, 4 January)
  2. On the reliability of Large Language Models to misinformed and demographically informed prompts (Wiley, 8 January)

Meta

  1. More Speech and Fewer Mistakes (Meta, 7 January)
    1. Unpacking the Meta Announcement: The Future of the Information Ecosystem and Implications for Democracy (Just Security, 8 January)
    2. Let’s fact-check Mark Zuckerberg’s fact-checking announcement (Nieman Lab, 8 January)
    3. Meta is Not Returning to its Free Speech Origins – It’s Preparing for an Autocratic Future (Tech Policy Press, 8 January)
    4. Analysis: Meta’s fact-checking pullback will have global consequences (DFRLab, 8 January)
    5. Meta’s shift to Community Notes model proves that we can fix big problems without big government (RStreet, 7 January)

1.2 World News 

  1. Trump’s Plan to Rewrite the History of Jan. 6 (Brennan Center, 7 January)
  2. Double-blind peer review is detrimental to scientific integrity (Oxford Academic, 6 January)
  3. Vigilantism and ‘Public Confidence’: The Pertinence of Public Opinion to Sentencing (Oxford Academic, January)
  4. Polarization and Disinformation in the Context of the Letter Revolution in Türkiye: Analyzing the Dynamics of X (T&F, 5 January)
  5. In the Service of the Hindu Nation: Online Disinformation Campaigns by Far-Right Women Political Influencers in India (Sage, 7 January)
  6. “Aren’t we all journalists?” Citizen journalism, disinformation and the weaponization of social media in conflict torn Mali (Sage, 6 January)

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