Docket+ 7 April

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Highlights

1. A global comparison of social media bot and human characteristics (Nature, 31 March)
2. Modeling the amplification of epidemic spread by individuals exposed to misinformation on social media (Nature, 2 April)
3. Republicans are flagged more often than Democrats for sharing misinformation on X’s Community Notes (OSF, 3 April)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Can Bluesky’s AT Protocol build the decentralized social media ecosystem the Fediverse aspires to? (Nieman Lab, 2 April)
2. A TikTok Ban Timeline: From Rapid Passage to Truce With Trump (Tech Policy Press, 1 April)
3. The importance of centering harm in data infrastructures for ‘soft moderation’: X’s Community Notes as a case study (SAGE, 2 April)
4. Promoting engagement with social fact-checks online: Investigating the roles of social connection and shared partisanship (Plos One, 31 March)
5. DISINFOX: an open-source threat exchange platform serving intelligence on disinformation and influence operations (ArXiv, 2 April)

AI & LLMs

1. When AI Fuels Atrocities — And How It Can Help Prevent Them (Just Security, 31 March)
2. In-House Data Harvest: How Social Platforms' AI Ambitions Threaten User Rights (Tech Policy Press, 1 April)
3. AI Bias is Not Ideological. It’s Science. (Tech Policy Press, 1 April)
4. Elevating Cyber Threat Intelligence Against Disinformation Campaigns with Llm-Based Concept Extraction and the Fakecti Dataset (SSRN, 2 April)
5. Artificial intelligence: understanding deepfakes (T&F, 3 April)
6. Beyond speculation: Measuring the growing presence of LLM-generated texts in multilingual disinformation (ArXiv, 29 March)
7. Understanding Inequality of LLM Fact-Checking over Geographic Regions with Agent and Retrieval models (ArXiv, 28 March)

Company Announcements

1. Bringing the Magic of Friends Back to Facebook (Meta, 27 March)

1.2 World News 

1. Biased Misinformation Distorts Beliefs (OSF, 31 March)
2. Estimating the effect size of moral contagion in online networks: A pre-registered replication and meta-analysis (OSF, 2 April)
3. Eyewitness Misinformation Susceptibility Across Data Collection Contexts: Comparing Laboratory, Online, and Prolific Participant Responses (OSF, 2 April)

Russia & Ukraine

1. The architecture of Russia’s FIMI operations (EUvsDisinfo, 2 April)
2. Discover the iceberg, enter the galaxy: understanding organised information manipulation (EUvsDisinfo, 1 April)
3. The Kremlin’s sudden interest in democracy (EUvsDisinfo, 3 April)
4. Boosting the distant Other: Visibility practices on Japanese Twitter during Russia’s war on Ukraine (SAGE, 3 April)