Docket+ 2 June

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Highlights

1. The Role of Generative AI Use in 2024 Elections Worldwide (IPIE, May)
2. The Root of AI Hallucinations: Physics Theory Digs Into the ‘Attention’ Flaw (Security Week, 28 May)
3. HHS Unilaterally Changes Vaccine Guidance, Providing No Justification, Imperiling American Infants (InfoEpi Lab, 28 May)
4. Misinformation interventions and online sharing behavior: Lessons learned from two preregistered field studies (OSF, 28 May)
5. WATCH: The AI Generation: How AI Literacy Will Prepare Our Youth For Success (The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, 29 May)
6. SURVEY: Exploring Cybersecurity Needs and Tools for Human Rights Organizations (New America)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. First Quarter Adversarial Threat Report (Meta, May)
2. Bluesky has caught on with many news influencers, but X remains popular (Pew, 29 May)
3. We heard you like headlines: In which a flock of dormant X accounts wakes up and starts spamming old headlines (Conspirator Norteño, 24 May)
4. The top Community Notes contributor is...an antivirus startup? (Indicator, 26 May)
5. Structural Dynamics of Harmful Content Dissemination on WhatsApp (ArXiv, 23 May)
6. Estimating Online Influence Needs Causal Modeling! Counterfactual Analysis of Social Media Engagement (ArXiv, 25 May)
7. Platforms as Partners? Dissecting the Interplay Between Civil Society Organizing and Social Media Platforms (Sage, 26 May)
8. Doing What Is Right: Role of Social Media Users in Resilience to Disinformation (Sage, 29 May)

AI & LLMs

1. The Rise of AI Agents: Anticipating Cybersecurity Opportunities, Risks, and the Next Frontier (RStreet, 29 May)
2. What Web Browsing Data Tells Us About How AI Appears Online (Pew, 23 May)
3. AI Agency in Fact-Checking: Role-Based Machine Heuristics and Publics’ Conspiratorial Orientation (Cogitatio, 29 May)
4. Labeling AI-generated Media online (Oxford Academic, 28 May)
5. Satire Versus Illicit: Policy Issues Regarding the Creation of Deepfakes Using AI Technology (Wiley, 26 May)
6. Do humans identify AI-generated text better than machines? Evidence based on excerpts from German theses (Science Direct, June)

1.2 World News 

1. “Truth is the casualty”: How Indian fact-checkers debunked false claims during the India-Pakistan crisis (Reuters Institute, 29 May)
2. Americans see Republicans growing more comfortable, and Democrats less, with sharing their views (Pew, 30 May)
3. Rapport d’activité 2024 (SGDSN, 23 May)
4. But why malicious models? (Memetic Warfare, 28 May)
5. This barndominium does not exist, part IV (Conspirator Norteño, 30 May)
6. What a Human-Centred Approach Reveals About Disinformation Policies: The Baltic Case (Cogitatio, 28 May)
7. Misinformation research continues to be urgent science (Science Advances, 28 May)
8. Disinformation as process: modeling the lifecycle of deceit (Oxford Academic, 26 May)
9. Explanatory factors for the dissemination and control of fake news in the Latin American context (Nature, 30 May)