Docket+ 18 November

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Highlights

1. Sharing intentions in survey experiments predict actual sharing behavior on social media (PsyArXiv, 9 November)
2. How to Detect and Analyse Identity-Based Disinformation/FIMI (EEAS, November)
3. Gendered Harms of Data Weaponization (New America, 14 November)
4. Uncovering Coordinated Cross-Platform Information Operations Threatening the Integrity of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Online Discussion (SSRN, 4 November)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Can Trump Save TikTok? (Lawfare, 12 November)
2. The four T&S horseman of the Trumpocalypse (Everything in Moderation, 11 November)
3. Internet, Broadband Fact Sheet (Pew, 13 November)
4. Mobile Fact Sheet (Pew, 13 November)
5. Social Media Fact Sheet (Pew, 13 November)
6. Bridging Nodes and Narrative Flows: Identifying Intervention Targets for Disinformation on Telegram (ArXiv, 8 November)

Images & Visualisations

1. Understanding Audiovisual Deepfake Detection: Techniques, Challenges, Human Factors and Perceptual Insights (ArXiv, 12 November)
2. A feminist legal analysis of non-consensual sexualized deepfakes: contextualizing its impact as AI-generated image-based violence under EU law (T&F, 14 November)

AI & LLMs

1. Announcing Inspect Evals: We’re open-sourcing dozens of LLM evaluations to advance safety research in the field (AI Safety Institute, 13 November)
2. The US Can Win Without Compromising AI Safety (Tech Policy Press, 14 November)
3. AI-Enabled Influence Operations: Safeguarding Future Elections (CETaS, November)
4. Persuasion with Large Language Models: a Survey (ArXiv, 11 November)
5. Evaluating the Propensity of Generative AI for Producing Disinformation During an Election Cycle (ArXiv, 9 November)
6. Can adversarial attacks by large language models be attributed? (ArXiv, 12 November)

1.2 World News 

1. Pro-Hezbollah accounts orchestrated digital smear campaign against Lebanese journalists (DFRLab, 14 November)
2. Susceptibility to online misinformation: A systematic meta-analysis of demographic and psychological factors (PNAS, 12 November)
3. The Infrastructure of Domestic Influence Operations: Cyber Troops and Public Opinion Manipulation Through Social Media in Indonesia (SAGE, 11 November)
4. Social media influencers and political influence operations: The Data Boys example in Nigeria (SAGE, 13 November)