Disinfo Docket 18 December

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Highlights

1. Publishers reckon with dark patterns (Nieman Lab Predictions for Journalism, 2025)
2. Whoppers of 2024: Our annual roundup of the worst falsehoods of the year. (FactCheck.org, 17 December)
3. Three Conclusions From the Global Year of Elections (Carnegie Endowment, 18 December)
4. Supreme Court Will Hear TikTok’s Challenge to Looming US Ban (Bloomberg, 18 December)
5. The TikTok Ban Paradox: How Platform Restrictions Create What They Aim to Prevent (Tech Policy Press, 18 December)

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1. Academia & Research

1. How human–AI feedback loops alter human perceptual, emotional and social judgements (Nature, 18 December)
2. In generative AI we trust: can chatbots effectively verify political information? (Springer Nature, 17 December)

2. Platforms & Technology

1. Tech giant Meta will pay Australians $50 million for enabling the Cambridge Analytica scandal (The Conversation, 17 December)
2. Spyware Is Spreading—And It’s Cheaper Than Ever (Columbia Journalism Review, 18 December)

3. Russia & Ukraine

1. 1,000 and 4,000 days of Russia’s CBRN disinformation: sowing fear, undermining accountability (EUvsDisinfo, 18 December)
2. The reluctant consensus: War and Russia’s public opinion (Atlantic Council, 17 December)
3. Murders, torture, imprisoned for speech, and a spike in xenophobia: Human rights monitors at OVD-Info wrap up 2024 in Russian law enforcement — one of the country’s darkest years in modern history (and things are only getting worse) (Meduza, 18 December)