Docket+ 7 July

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Hi! I'm Victoria and welcome to DisinfoDocket. Docket+ is a weekly roundup of the latest influence operations-related academic research, events and job opportunities.

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Highlights

1. The Misleading Panic over Misinformation: And Why Government Solutions Won’t Work (Cato, 26 June)
2. How 1 in 4 Americans reject evolution, a century after the Scopes monkey trial (Hacks/Hackers, 2 July)
3. Iranian Cyber Actors May Target Vulnerable US Networks and Entities of Interest (US Government, 30 June)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Is the Oversight Board just "safety washing"? (Everything in Moderation, 30 June)
2. Influence You Can Trust? Exploring Trust in Social Media Influencers for Political Information (SAGE, 1 July)

AI & LLMs

1. Seeing is Deceiving? AI-Manipulated Images and Protest Size Estimates (OSF, 2 July)
2. Context, Credibility, and Control: User Reflections on AI Assisted Misinformation Tools (ArXiv, 28 June)
3. Evaluating the Simulation of Human Personality-Driven Susceptibility to Misinformation with LLMs (ArXiv, 30 June)
4. Is The US Supreme Court Ready to Rule on AI and Free Speech? Take It Down and Its Free Speech Implications (SAGE, 1 July)

Platform Announcements

1. Introducing Messaging and Highlighted Perspectives on Threads (Meta, 1 July)
2. Centralized Campaigns, AI Support and More for Businesses on WhatsApp (Meta, 1 July)

1.2 World News 

1. The Use of Social Media in Irregular Migration and Migrant Smuggling: A Qualitative Study in Türkiye (T&F, 3 July)
2. Social Media Platform Facebook Has Become a Tool for Media Trials: A Study on Recent Mob Violence Against Citizens of Bangladesh (SSRN, 27 June)
3. Thank you for your attention to this Memetic Warfare (Memetic Warfare, 1 July)