Docket+ 6 October

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Highlights

1. Measuring the State of Online Disinformation in Europe on Very Large Online Platforms (Science Feedback, September)
2. How Conspiracy Theories Break Families and Friendships (InfoEpi Lab, 1 October)
3. We Say You Want a Revolution: PRISONBREAK – An AI-Enabled Influence Operation Aimed at Overthrowing the Iranian Regime (Citizen Lab, 2 October)
4. Best Practice Checklists for Journalists, Creators, Civil Society, and Electeds Producing Content for Latino Communities Online (DDIA, 30 September)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. US State Age Verification Efforts Threaten Online Speech and Privacy – The Supreme Court Seems Ready to Allow Them (Tech Policy Press, 1 October)
2. Most people want platforms (not governments) to be responsible for moderating content (Reuters Institute, 30 September)

AI & LLMs

1. Patterns, Not People: Personality Structures in LLM-powered Persona Agents (CETaS, 1 October)
2. Effectiveness of Large Multimodal Models in Detecting Disinformation: Experimental Results (ArXiv, 26 September)
3. Teen Safety is the Price of Admission for OpenAI and Its Peers (Tech Policy Press, 30 September)
4. Relatively few Americans are getting news from AI chatbots like ChatGPT (Pew, 1 October)
5. Americans have mixed feelings about AI summaries in search results (Pew, 1 October)

1.2 World News 

1. Weapon and Poison: Framing Disinformation in European Commission Speeches, 2016–2024 (OSF, 30 September)
2. Multimodal based Amharic fake news detection using CNN and attention-based BiLSTM (Nature, 2 October)
3. The complexity of misinformation extends beyond virus and warfare analogies (Nature, 1 October)
4. You Can’t Designate ‘Antifa.’ Banks and Platforms Will Act Like You Did Anyway. (Lawfare, 1 October)
5. Nepal and the Wider Problem of National Security as a Cover for Censorship (Tech Policy Press, 1 October)