Docket+ 25 August

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Highlights

1. Jumping Off Platform: Examining How The Com and Related Networks Spread Content on Mainstream Social Media Platforms and Direct Users to Off-Platform Spaces (Graphika, 20 August)
2. Norm-enhanced prebunking for actively open-minded thinking indirectly improves misinformation discernment and reduces conspiracy beliefs (Science Direct, November)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Don’t blame the algorithm: Polarization may be inherent in social media (Science 15 August)
2. Social Media and Society: Platforms, Publics, and Anti-Publics (Sage, 20 August)
3. TikTok tradwives: femininity, reproduction, and social media (T&F, 19 August)
4. Accuracy and Bias in Crowdsourced Information: Evaluating Online Knowledge Repositories (SSRN, 14 August)

AI & LLMs

1. Algorithmic Foreign Influence: Rethinking Sovereignty in the Age of AI (Lawfare, 20 August)
2. Experts React to Reuters Reports on Meta's AI Chatbot Policies (Tech Policy Press, 18 August)
3. AI Companies Should be Liable for the Illegal Conduct of AI Chatbots (Tech Policy Press, 20 August)
4. Weapons of Mass Delusion Are Helping Kids Opt Out of Reality (Tech Policy Press, 20 August)
5. Invitation Is All You Need! Promptware Attacks Against LLM-Powered Assistants in Production Are Practical and Dangerous (ArXiv, 16 August)
6. Improving Fake News Detection Concatenating Multimodal Features with Transformers-Based Deep Learning Models (SSRN, 16 August)
7. Deepfake Tweet Detection using CNN and FastText Embeddings: Leveraging Deep Learning to Identify AI-Generated Tweets (SSRN, 14 August)

1.2 World News 

1. Regular ISIL-Threat Review at U.N. Shows U.S., Russia, China, and European Interests and Competition on Counterterrorism (Just Security, 19 August)
2. How the UAE Is Betting Big on AI to Expand Its Global Influence (Tech Policy Press, 20 August)
3. Inside the Situation Room: The Theory and Practice of Crisis Decision-Making (Inside the Situation Room, 21 August)
   1. The Unique Challenges of Covert Missions: How Leaders Assess the “Quiet Option” (Inside the Situation Room, August)
4. Resilience of Socially Vulnerable Populations to Disinformation in Lithuania: The Role of the Welfare State (Cogitatio, 20 August)
5. YouTube as a narrative battlefield: Brazilian social media influencers and the Russian war in Ukraine (T&F, 19 August)