Docket+ 24 February

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Highlights

1. Attribution and Information Influence Operations: A Field Guide for Open-Source Investigators and Researchers (ADAC.io, January)
2. A Framework for Attribution of Information Influence Operations (ADAC.io, January)
3. Just the facts: How dialogues with AI reduce conspiracy beliefs (OSF, 19 February)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Technology, People, and Policy – Tech Policy Fellowship Papers (Volume II) (Digitally Right, 2 February)
2. How to write better transparency reports (Everything in Moderation, 17 February)
3. Amidst Flurry Of Anti-DEI Measures, Meta’s Content Moderation Policies Will Harm People With Disabilities (Tech Policy Press, 19 February)
4. Short-term exposure to filter-bubble recommendation systems has limited polarization effects: Naturalistic experiments on YouTube (PNAS, 18 February)
5. “RIP TOP G:” Rhetoric, Responses, and Realities Surrounding the Social Media Ban of Andrew Tate (SAGE, 20 February)
6. Leveraging social media intelligence (SOCMINT) in the African intelligence context (T&F, 17 February)

AI & LLMs

1. AI Countergovernance: Lessons Learned from Canada and Paris (Tech Policy Press, 20 February)
2. Participatory AI? Begin with the Most Affected People (Tech Policy Press, 19 February)
3. Suffering is Real. AI Consciousness is Not. (Tech Policy Press, 19 February)
4. Unpacking the Final Report of the Bipartisan House Task Force on AI (Lawfare, 19 February)
5. VLDBench: Vision Language Models Disinformation Detection Benchmark (ArXiv, 17 February)
6. Do LLMs write like humans? Variation in grammatical and rhetorical styles (PNAS, 18 February)
7. The potential and challenges of AI for collective intelligence (SAGE, 17 February)

1.2 World News 

1. Extending Truth-Default Theory to Misinformation: Lessons for Misinformation Scholarship from Deception Research (OSF, 18 February)
2. Social Media Disinformation Reinforces Structural Racism in the Latino/a Community (Wiley, 17 February)
3. The pursuit of online misinformation literacy: Understanding age-varying competence for misinformation recognition (Science Direct, February)

Russia & Ukraine

1. Pro-Kremlin outlets drool over German elections (EUvsDisinfo, 20 February)
2. Moscow’s attempt to reshape the world order (EUvsDisinfo, 20 February)
3. Why is the Kremlin so hung up on smearing Zelenskyy? (EUvsDisinfo, 19 February)
4. Munich as seen through the Kremlin’s eyes (EUvsDisinfo, 17 February)
5. Russia’s Weak Spots in Cyber Sovereignty: How the West Can Keep Russian Citizens’ Access to Online Information Free from the Kremlin Interference (T&F, 19 February)
6. Digital ballots, partisan bias: digital authoritarianism and support for internet voting in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine (T&F, 20 February)