Docket+ 1 September

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Highlights

1. A Year of Meming Dangerously: Iranian Influence Operations Targeting Israel Since October 7 (FDD, 28 August)
2. Prebunking and credible source corrections increase election credibility: Evidence from the US and Brazil (Science, 29 August)
3. Do I look like I know what a PDF is? (Memetic Warfare, 27 August)
4. UN Women-commissioned survey on women human rights defenders, activists and journalists’ experiences with online violence. (City of London University)
5. Integrity Reports, Second Quarter 2025 (Meta, 27 August)
6. Countering Chinese State-Sponsored Actors Compromise of Networks Worldwide to Feed Global Espionage System (IC3, August)
7. Election report: Assessment of FIMI in the 2025 Polish presidential election (FIMI ISAC, 25 August)
8. We Failed The Misinformation Fight. Now What? (Noema, 26 August)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. How does physical distance from the epicenter influence misinformation sharing? The roles of negative affect and social media engagement (Nature, 29 August)
2. Why scientists are flocking to Substack (Nature, 29 August)
3. A ‘Kill Switch’ Could Shutter Europe’s Access to US Tech. Here’s How. (Tech Policy Press, 28 August)
4. How Scammers Engineer Trust on Digital Platforms (Graphika, 28 August)

AI & LLMs

1. ConspirED: A Dataset for Cognitive Traits of Conspiracy Theories and Large Language Model Safety (ArXiv, 28 August)
2. LLMs Can't Handle Peer Pressure: Crumbling under Multi-Agent Social Interactions (ArXiv, 24 August)
3. A picture isn't always worth a thousand words (Conspirator Norteño, 30 August)
4. AI Chatbots Are Emotionally Deceptive by Design (Tech Policy Press, 29 August)

Availability and spread of information

1. Motivations to connect with like-minded audiences increase partisan sharing on social media (OSF, 29 August)