Docket+ 23 February
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Below the paywall today -
* Perceived Political Bias in LLMs Reduces Persuasive Abilities
* What the Kremlin wants you to believe about its war against Ukraine
* First, they came for the journalists: four stories of reporters in exile from Venezuela to Russia, Cuba to Afghanistan...
* Perceived Political Bias in LLMs Reduces Persuasive Abilities
* What the Kremlin wants you to believe about its war against Ukraine
* First, they came for the journalists: four stories of reporters in exile from Venezuela to Russia, Cuba to Afghanistan...
Highlights
LISTEN - How to Get Paid to Polarize on TikTok (Tech Policy Press, 22 February)
- Shipwrecks, Sham Papers and False Flags: Tracking the Company Behind It All (Bellingcat, 19 February)
- The FIMI of Russian Invincibility: How a Myth Becomes a Strategic Weapon (EUvsDisinfo, 21 February)
- France strikes to address misinformation weakening Western alliance (ASPI, 20 February)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- Europe vs Big Tech: A battle for democracy (Coda Story, 20 February)
- Can social media age verification really protect kids? (Rest of World, 19 February)
- U.S. plans Peace Corps-style “Tech Corps” to counter China’s AI exports (Rest of World, 20 February)
- Mapping the potential and limitations of using generative AI technologies to address socio-economic challenges in LMICs (Nature, 23 February)
- The political effects of X’s feed algorithm (Nature, 18 February)
- How to Detect Information Voids Using Longitudinal Data from Social Media and Web Searches (arXiv, 17 February)