Docket+ 31 March

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Highlights

1. Scientists Respond to FTC Inquiry into Tech Censorship (Tech Policy Press, 25 March)
2. Telltale Data Signs of Bogus Scientific Papers and Fraudulent Academic Research (GIJN, 21 March)
3. Crushing Comments: Gendered Harassment During the 2024 EU Parliament Elections on TikTok (ISD, 24 March)
4. Tune in to the prebunking network! Development and validation of six inoculation videos that prebunk manipulation tactics and logical fallacies in misinformation (Wiley, 27 March)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Partnering Directly With Schools and Teachers to Address Bullying (Meta, 25 March)
2. Will Ireland be Big Tech’s Lapdog Yet Again? (TechPolicy Press, 26 March)
3. Fewer Americans now support TikTok ban, see the platform as a national security threat than in spring 2023 (Pew, 25 March)
4. Visual Identities in Troll Farms: The Twitter Moderation Research Consortium (SAGE, 24 March)

AI & LLMs

1. AI Is Reigniting Decades-Old Questions Over Digital Rights, but Fair Use Prevails (TechPolicy Press, 25 March)
2. Detection of Somali-written Fake News and Toxic Messages on the Social Media Using Transformer-based Language Models (ArXiv, 23 March)
3. From Trust to Truth: Actionable policies for the use of AI in fact-checking in Germany and Ukraine (ArXiv, 24 March)
4. Russian networks flood the Internet with propaganda, aiming to corrupt AI chatbots (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 26 March)
5. AI-Generated News Content: The Impact of AI Writer Identity and Perceived AI Human-Likeness (T&F, 24 March)

Availability and spread of information

1. Online information sharing: how secondhand information and credibility level influence the perceived validity of information (T&F, 26 March)

1.2 World News 

1. How Azerbaijani media and politicians endorse Georgia’s shift away from the West (DFRLab, 26 March)
2. Cross-platform campaign sows anti-Europe division in Moldova (DFRLab, 26 March)
3. Japan’s technology paradox: the challenge of Chinese disinformation (DFRLab, 25 March)
4. Does content matter? Comparing the Continued Influence Effect for different materials (OSF, 26 March)
5. The narrow search effect and how broadening search promotes belief updating (PNAS, 24 March)
6. It glitters, but is it gold? Negative campaigning on social media in Portugal (Sage, 27 March)
7. Disinformation as an authoritarian strategy: the populist playbook in Egypt and Tunisia (T&F, 25 March)