Docket + 19 May
Docket+ is a weekly roundup of the latest influence operations-related academic research, events and job opportunities.
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Highlights
- Beyond Operation Doppelgänger: A Capability Assessment of the Social Design Agency (Psychological Defence Agency Sweden, May 2025)
- AI reduces conspiracy beliefs even when presented as a human expert (OSF, 5 May)
Managing Threats to Academic Researchers Panel (Cambridge Disinformation Summit)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- What Attacks on Wikipedia Reveal about Free Expression (Tech Policy Press, 14 May)
- Impact of the Digital Services Act: A Facebook Case Study (StratComCoE, 9 May)
AI & LLMs
- Deepfakes and Beyond: Mapping the Ethics and Risks of Digital Duplicates (Tech Policy Press, 13 May)
- Guardian-AI: A novel deep learning based deepfake detection model in images (Science Direct, July 2025)
- Can LLM-generated misinformation be detected: A study on Cyber Threat Intelligence (Science Direct, December 2025)
1.2 World News
- Racialized Grooming Gangs: How Musk and X Amplified Islamophobia and Racism in the UK (Tech Policy Press, 14 May)
- Are Europeans Kidnapping Children in Africa? (EUvsDisinfo, 12 May)
- Is Europe really denying visas to AES passport holders? (EUvsDisinfo, 14 May)
- Online speech and communal conflict: Evidence from India (Oxford Academic, 13 May)
Russia & Ukraine
- What He Said and What it Really Means – Vol. 9: Putin rewriting history of WWII (EUvsDisinfo, 9 May)
- Celebrating a new war (EUvsDisinfo, 15 May)
- Investigation: How Russia Today is evading sanctions and spreading pro-Kremlin propaganda in Italy (ISD, 13 May)