Docket+ 4 August
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Highlights
- Investigation of machine learning approaches to classify war-related content during Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine (Research Gate, July)
- Trump's Order Against 'Woke AI' Will Create Real Harm (Tech Policy Press, 29 July)
- Call For Submissions: Psychological approaches to health misinformation (Nature, deadline 17 April)
- GLAAD Fact Checks Popular Anti-Trans Tropes (Assigned Media, 28 July)
- LISTEN: Musk: Reanimating Apartheid w/ Nic Dawes (The Maybe, 23 July)
🚨 New preprint alert:
— Meysam Alizadeh (@MeysamAIizadeh) July 17, 2025
We show that web-browsing GPT and LLaMA models can infer social media user demographics with reasonable accuracy—using only usernames.
This opens new possibilities for social media research in the post-API era but raises important privacy concerns. pic.twitter.com/je3Dzdpqkb
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- From Protest to Platform Shift: Exploring the Impact of Elon Musk’s Twitter Ownership on Public Sentiment About Colin Kaepernick (T&F, 29 July)
- Agent-Based Exploration of Recommendation Systems in Misinformation Propagation (ArXiv, 29 July)
- Understanding the Media & Entertainment Online Threat Landscape (Graphika, 24 July)
AI & LLMs
- Studying Disinformation Narratives on Social Media with LLMs and Semantic Similarity (ArXiv, 26 July)
- Rethinking Media Users in the Age of AI and Algorithmic Mediation (Cogitatio, 30 July)
- AI Might Let You Die to Save Itself (Lawfare, 31 July)
- Chatbot Grok Doesn’t Glitch—It Reflects X (Tech Policy Press, 28 July)
- Trump AI Action Plan Raises Legal Questions, Potentially Violates Constitution (Tech Policy Press, 31 July)
- Chinese AI Models Register a 60 Percent Fail Rate in NewsGuard Audit of Pro-China Claims (NewsGuard, 25 July)
Availability and spread of information
- Unfounded Beliefs Online: a Socially Adapted Theory of Planned Behaviour Model for Misinformation Adoption and Spread (OSF, 30 July)