Docket+ 30 October

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Highlights

1. Misinformation and the epistemic integrity of democracy (ScienceDirect, 19 October)
2. Neo-Nazi Active Clubs Spreading Globally, Allying with Similar Extremists, and Taking to the Streets (GPAHE, 26 October)
3. AI red-teaming is not a one-stop solution to AI harms: Recommendations for using red-teaming for AI accountability (Data & Society, October)
4. This "product review" website does not exist, at least not in any meaningful sense: A mix of synthetically-generated faces and reviews lifted from Amazon result in an entirely unnecessary website (Conspirator Norteño, 29 October)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. State Attorneys General Sue Meta Over Harms to Children and Teens (Tech Policy Press, 25 October)
2. Impact of perceived influence on confirmation bias in social media messages: the moderating effect of civic online reasoning  (T&F, 26 October)

1.2 World News 

1. Pro-government Twitter accounts targeted head of Egyptian Engineers Syndicate (DFRLab, 19 October)
2. Suspicious media targeted Guatemala’s elected president (DFRLab, 23 October)
3. People broadly view the EU favorably, both in member states and elsewhere (Pew, 24 October)
4. Exposure to misleading and unreliable information reduces active information-seeking (OSF, 25 October)

Russia & Ukraine

1. Fear, Hate and Ignorance: pro-Kremlin Disinformation Targets the LGBTIQ+ Community (EUvsDisinfo, 23 October)
2. The Kremlin’s travelling roadshow (EUvsDisinfo, 26 October)
3. Do deepfake videos undermine our epistemic trust? A thematic analysis of tweets that discuss deepfakes in the Russian invasion of Ukraine (Plos One, 25 October)

Israel & Palestine

1. Emojis of Terror: Telegram’s Role in Perpetuating Extremism in the October 2023 Hamas-Israel War (GNET, 23 October)
2. The ‘new elites’ of X: Identifying the most influential accounts engaged in Hamas/Israel discourse (University of Washington, 20 October)