Docket+ 10 February

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Highlights

1. 2024 Poll #2 Takeaways: Latinos & AI (DDIA, 4 February)
2. How to protect democracies from falsehoods? By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills (Reuters Institute, 3 February)
3. Nine Experts on the Impact of President Trump’s Pardons and Commutations for January 6 Offenders (Just Security, 3 February)
4. Free speech, fact checking, and the right to accurate information (Science, 6 February)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Principles for Safeguard Evaluation (AISI, 4 February)
2. Meta Dropped Fact-Checking Because of Politics. But Could Its Alternative Produce Better Results (Tech Policy Press, 3 February)
3. Community Notes and its Narrow Understanding of Disinformation (Tech Policy Press, 3 February)
4. Ready for the Broligarchy? The Tech Accountability Community Needs a Reset (Tech Policy Press, 4 February)
5. Salvaging European Technological Sovereignty in a Trump 2.0 World (Tech Policy Press, 5 February)
6. No, conscripting the app stores doesn’t solve the problems with age verification (RStreet, 29 January)
7. Is there anything Left?: A Global Analysis on Changes in Engagement with Political Content on Twitter in the Musk Era (Journal QD, 30 January)
8. Podcasting the Truth: Challenging Journalistic Knowledge and Building Epistemic Authority in Independent YouTube Podcasts (Cogitatio, 6 February)
9. Identification and explanation of disinformation in wiki data streams (Sage, 2 February)
10. The discursive function of Meta’s Newsroom: How Meta frames the problem of problematic online content (Sage, 1 February)

Company Announcements

1. Expanding GenAI Transparency for Meta’s Ads Products (Meta, 3 February)
2. Our Approach to Frontier AI (Meta, 3 February)

AI, Deepfakes & LLMs

1. Challenges and Innovations in LLM-Powered Fake News Detection: A Synthesis of Approaches and Future Directions (ArXiv, 1 February)
2. Is it really unreal? A two-theory approach on the impact of deepfakes technology on the protection motivation of consumers (T&F, 5 February)
3. Fighting Fire with Fire: Learning Artificial Intelligence's Latent Power Against Disinformation (SSRN, 3 February)
4. Reality Check: A Comprehensive Review of AI-Generated Media and Detection Methods (SSRN, 5 February)

1.2 World News 

1. Trump’s executive order on free speech is good, but new administration must protect Section 230 (RStreet, 3 February)
2. Relationship Between Bullshit, Cognitive Skills, and Belief Systems: A Meta-Analytic Review (Wiley, 6 February)
3. Radical right populism and the media: evidence from the supply side and demand side of political information in Germany (Oxford Academic, 4 February)
4. Analyzing the share of media followers of government Twitter accounts across Western European countries (Sage, 6 February)
5. Believing the Untrue: How Social Media, Sexism, and Structural Gender Inequality Influence Misinformation About Women Politicians (Sage, 1 February)