Docket+ 5 May

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Highlights

1. Jekyll-and-Hyde Tipping Point in an AI's Behavior (ArXiv, 29 April)
2. How a Filipino Reporter Exposed Disinformation Networks Defending an Ex-President After His Arrest (GIJN, 29 April)
3. How social media shaped the 2025 Canadian election (DFRLab, 29 April)
4. Quantifying the spread of racist content on fringe social media: A case study of Parler (SAGE, 29 April)
5. National Endowment for Democracy 2024 Annual Report (NED, 2025)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Social media use is changing, but why, and what does it mean for T&S? (Everything in Moderation, 29 April)
2. 100 Days of Trump: His Enforcers Are Waging War On Content Moderation. It’s Likely Just The Start. (Tech Policy Press, 30 April)
3. 100 Days of Trump: Global Digital Rights and Internet Freedom Advocacy Efforts Face Generational Crisis (Tech Policy Press, 30 April)

Availability & Spread of Information

1. Right to Be Delisted? Attitudes Toward Delisting Public Interest Information (TS Journal, 28 April)

AI & LLMs

1. Wikipedia announces new AI strategy to “support human editors” (Nieman Lab, 30 April)
2. Introducing the Meta AI App: A New Way to Access Your AI Assistant (Meta, 29 April)
3. Significance of Use of Generative AI in Cyber Security (SSRN, 24 April)
4. Generative Artificial Intelligence and Disinformation (SSRN, 28 April)
5. A Generative-AI-Driven Claim Retrieval System Capable of Detecting and Retrieving Claims from Social Media Platforms in Multiple Languages (ArXiv, 29 April)
6. TrueFake: A Real World Case Dataset of Last Generation Fake Images also Shared on Social Networks (ArXiv, 29 April)
7. ‘Unethical’ AI research on Reddit under fire (Science, 30 April)

1.2 World News 

1. Memecoin is Risen (Memetic Warfare, 30 April)
   1. Contagious Interview (DPRK) Launches a New Campaign Creating Three Front Companies to Deliver a Trio of Malware: BeaverTail, InvisibleFerret, and OtterCookie (Silent Push, 24 April)
   2. North Korean cyber spies created U.S. firms to dupe crypto developers (Reuters, 24 April)
   3. Detecting and Countering Malicious Uses of Claude: March 2025 (Anthropic, 23 April)