Docket+ 14 April

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Highlights

1. No safe scroll: Investigating gendered hate speech on TikTok and YouTube in Ethiopia (CIR, 8 April)
   1. The untold impacts of online abuse on Ethiopian women (CIR, 8 April)
2. Understanding the EU's Digital Services Act Enforcement Against X (Tech Policy Press, 5 April)
3. Accelerating federal use of AI through innovation, governance and public trust (White House, 3 April)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. We’re Introducing New Built-In Restrictions for Instagram Teen Accounts, and Expanding to Facebook and Messenger (Meta, 8 April)
2. Transcript: Former Exec Sarah Wynn-Williams Testifies on Facebook’s Courtship of China (Tech Policy Press, 10 April)
3. False sense of security and a flurry of misplaced trust: the construction of trust in and by Facebook (T&F, 9 April)

AI & LLMs

1. Can dialogues with AI systems help humans better discern visual misinformation? (ArXiv, 9 April)
2. Will AI improve your life? Here’s what 4,000 researchers think (Nature, 9 April)
3. Generative AI Content Misuse And The DSA (SSRN, 3 April)

Availability and spread of information

1. Rumor detection on social networks based on Temporal Tree Transformer (Plos One, 7 April)

1.2 Russia & Ukraine

1. The war on truth: Russian disinformation and Georgia’s path to EU (EUvsDisinfo, 4 April)
2. Enter the galaxy: a network analysis of influence operations (EUvsDisinfo, 9 April)
3. Play this up. Play that down. Repeat the lie (EUvsDisinfo, 10 April)
4. Challenging the Kremlin’s hyperreality construct (T&F, 8 April)