Docket+ 26 August

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Highlights

1. Call for Abstracts: Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Freedoms (Knight First Amendment Institute)
2. Call for Papers, Cambridge Disinformation Summit, 23-25 April, 2025
3. Social media spread conspiracy theories after Trump assassination attempt, but believing them was linked to interpersonal discussions (OSF, 20 August)
4. Disagreement as a way to study misinformation and its effects (ArXiv, 15 August)
5. Warning: this is a foolproof review - Foolproof: why misinformation infects our minds and how to build immunity (T&F, 20 August)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. AI in Precision Persuasion. Unveiling Tactics and Risks on Social Media (NATO StratCom COE, 20 August)
2. Grok AI’s New Image Generator Is a Willing Misinformation Superspreader (News Guard, 19 August)
3. About half of TikTok users under 30 say they use it to keep up with politics, news (Pew, 20 August)
4. The Governance, Legitimacy and Efficacy of Facebook's Oversight Board: A Model for Global Tech Platforms? (Sage, 18 August)
5. Internal Fractures: The Competing Logics of Social Media Platforms (Sage, 21 August)
6. H1 2024 Bi-Annual Report on the Oversight Board (Meta, 22 August)

AI & LLMs

1. Authorship Attribution in the Era of LLMs: Problems, Methodologies, and Challenges (ArXiv, 16 August)
2. Governments can learn from Silicon Valley as they tackle AI and Data Science (OII, 22 August)
3. Personhood credentials: Artificial intelligence and the value of privacy-preserving tools to distinguish who is real online (ArXiv, August)

Availability and spread of information

1. Measuring and Understanding Amplification on Social Media Platforms (Tech Policy Press, 19 August)
2. How Do Social Bots Participate in Misinformation Spread? A Comprehensive Dataset and Analysis (ArXiv, 18 August)

1.2 World News