Docket+ 25 November

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Highlights

1. Pro-Hezbollah accounts orchestrated digital smear campaign against Lebanese journalists (DFRLab, 14 November)
2. An Eight-Year Struggle for Accountability in the US Ends in Defeat (Tech Policy Press, 18 November)
3. Consumer Reports statement before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation’s Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security on Protecting Consumers from Artificial Intelligence Enabled Fraud and Scams (Consumer Reports, 19 November)
4. Accuracy prompts protect professional content moderators from the illusory truth effect (PNAS, 19 November)
5. How reliance on Spanish-language social media predicts beliefs in false political narratives amongst Latinos (PNAS, 19 November)
6. An evaluation of online information acquisition in US news deserts (Nature, 13 November)

Opportunities

1. Analyst: Chinese/Iranian Influence Operations (Graphika)
2. Research Scholar, Technology and International Affairs (CEIP, deadline 14 December)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Safety concerns drive X departures, new policy tracker & Oversight Board announce CEO (Everything in Moderation, 15 November)
2. Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky (Science, 20 November)
3. Draft Statement of Strategic Priorities for online safety (Gov.uk, 20 November)
4. Sharing without clicking on news in social media (Nature, 19 November)
5. The Video Manipulation Effect (VME): A quantification of the possible impact that the ordering of YouTube videos might have on opinions and voting preferences (Plos One, 20 November)
6. Pathways to persuasion: The impact of social media influencers’ self-disclosure and follower size on persuasion outcomes (SAGE, 18 November)

AI & LLMs

1. The State of AI for Strategic Warning (CETaS, 19 November)
2. Detecting disinformation with measures of discourse derailment using LLMs (OSF, 18 November)
3. Regulation of Appropriate Prompts for Users in Text-Based Generative Artificial Intelligence Programs (Wiley, 20 November)

1.2 World News 

1. Repetition increases belief in implausible statements more than for plausible statements (OSF, 19 November)
2. Communicating State Repression to the International Community: A Case Study of How China Frames Its Policies in Xinjiang Online (Oxford Academic, 15 November)
3. Debunking Three Myths About Misinformation (SAGE, 19 November)
4. Millennials’ use of social media and its impact on communication skills (T&F, 17 November)