Docket+ 28 August

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Highlights

1. Summit Old, Summit New: Russia-Linked Actors Leverage New and Old Tactics in Influence Operations Targeting Online Conversations About NATO Summit (Graphika, 21 August)
2. Artificial intelligence is ineffective and potentially harmful for fact checking (ArXiv, 21 August)
3. Crowds Can Effectively Identify Misinformation at Scale (SAGE, 18 August)
4. A language framework for modeling social media account behavior (EPJ Data Science, 23 August)
   

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. The Challenges of Machine Learning for Trust and Safety: A Case Study on Misinformation Detection (ArXiv, 23 August)
2. Fast Facts: Platforms From Personalization to Centralization (SAGE, 23 August)

Availability and spread of information

1. Illusory Implications: Mere exposure to ideas can induce beliefs (PsyArXiv, 23 August)
2. Why do people spread fake news? Modelling the factors that influence social media users’ fake news sharing behaviour (SAGE, 23 August)
   

1.2 World News

1. Examining Support for the 2023 Brazilian Coup Attempt: Gender Stereotypes and Occupational Trends in a Radicalised Digital Ecosystem (GNET, 21 August)
2. Checking verifications during the 2022 Brazilian run-off election: How fact-checking organizations exposed falsehoods and contributed to the accuracy of the public debate (SAGE, 22 August)
3. The Paradox of Information Control Under Authoritarianism: Explaining Trust in Competing Messages in China (SAGE, 22 August)
4. Internet Shutdown and Regime-Imposed Disinformation Campaigns (T&F, 23 August)