Docket+ 9 June

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Highlights

1. Influence of Twitter social network graph topologies on traditional and meme stocks during the 2021 GameStop short squeeze (Nature, 4 June)
2. A Different Kind of Hate: The targeting of Jacinda Ardern before the release of her memoir (Sanjana Hattotuwa, 4 June)
3. Europe’s Moment of Truth: A Democracy Shield for Today and Tomorrow (GMFUS, 4 June)
4. Offline events, online threats: Analyzing online extremist targeting of LGBTQ+ communities (ISD, 5 June)
5. Regulation or Repression? How the Right Hijacked the DSA Debate (Lawfare, 2 June)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. US State Policies Regarding Social Media: Do Policies Match the Evidence? (Wiley, 4 June)
2. Political expression of academics on Twitter (Nature, 3 June)
3. How Should We Study Multiple Platforms? Lessons from Deliberative Systems Theory (T&F, 2 June)
4. The new(ish) job roles in T&S (Everything in Moderation, 2 June)
5. Republicans and Democrats on X differ over the site’s politics and their experiences (Pew, 5 June)

AI & LLMs

1. How Malicious AI Swarms Can Threaten Democracy (OSF, 3 June)
2. Facts are Harder Than Opinions – A Multilingual, Comparative Analysis of LLM-Based Fact-Checking Reliability (ArXiv, 4 June)

1.2 World News 

1. Reimagining the cult of the divisive: How tactical realities shape cyber-enabled influence operations (T&F, 4 June)
2. Intra-Oligarchic Struggles and the Rise of Digital Attacks on Civil Society in Indonesia (T&F, 5 June)
3. Samoa Agreement: No EU strings attached for Nigeria on LGBTIQ+ rights (EUvsDisinfo, 5 June)
4. Virtual Manipulation Brief 2025: From War and Fear to Confusion and Uncertainty (NATO StratCom CoE, 2 June)
5. Defence Strategic Communications | Volume 15, Spring 2025 (NATO StratCom CoE, 4 June)

Russia & Ukraine

1. Unveiling the Russian infrastructure supporting the Moldova24 TV channel (DFRLab, 3 June)
2. The world in black and white (EUvsDisinfo, 4 June)
3. An unpleasant incident (EUvsDisinfo, 5 June)
4. Polish elections in the eyes of Moscow (EUvsDisinfo, 5 June)