Docket+ 2 December

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Highlights

1. Introducing DISARM v1.6, which enhances analysts' ability to document the accounts, platforms, and features used by threat actors during influence operations. (DISARM Foundation, 27 November)
2. Education as a countermeasure against disinformation (Lund University, 2024)
3. "Operation Undercut" Shows Multifaceted Nature of SDA’s Influence Operations (Recorded Future, 26 November)
4. Why a newly passed House “terrorism financing” bill could threaten nonprofits and free speech (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 21 November)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Remember Nuzzel? A similar news-aggregating tool now exists for Bluesky (Nieman, 25 November)
2. Where Does Power Consolidate on Bluesky? (Tech Policy Press, 27 November)
3. Meta’s Privacy Policies: Designed Badly, by Design? (Tech Policy Press, 25 November)
4. We Need to Talk About Data Monopolies (Tech Policy Press, 27 November)
5. Exploring Adolescents’ Social Media Connection and Disconnection: A Latent Class Approach (Cogitatio, 25 November)
6. Selling account names in the blue, blue skies (Conspirator Norteño, 28 November)

AI & LLMs

1. ChatGPT, can you solve the content moderation dilemma? (Oxford Academic, 26 November)

Availability and spread of information

1. Search is the Next Battle Front in the Information Wars (Tech Policy Press, 27 November)

1.2 World News 

1. On the Coming Merger of Tech and State Power (Tech Policy Press, 26 November)
2. BlueSky has a doppelgänger problem, World War III narrative leans on a fake cover of The Economist, and Instagram is flooded with cozycore AI slop (Faked Up, 27 November)
3. Public Narrowly Approves of Trump’s Plans; Most Are Skeptical He Will Unify the Country (Pew, 22 November)
4. Understanding disinformation as narratives in the hybrid media ecosystem: Evidence from the US (SAGE, 26 November)
5. Information Warfare: Adapting to the Ever-Changing Nature of War (T&F, 25 November)
6. Responses to contested information amid polarized politics: evidence from the US and Taiwan (T&F, 25 November)