Docket+ 10 June

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Highlights

1. Political Machines: Understanding the Role of AI in the U.S. 2024 Elections and Beyond (Center for Media Engagement, 6 June)
2. Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation (Nature, 5 June)
3. Misinformation poses a bigger threat to democracy than you might think (Nature, 5 June)
4. A guide to protecting LGBTQ+ users (Everything in Moderation, 3 June)
5. Building Election Fact Checking Coalitions (AnchorChange, 6 June)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. The One Simple Trick to Measuring Abuse in Tech’s $440 Billion Ads Business (Tech Policy Press, 5 June)
2. Remarks at the International Telecommunication Union’s World Summit on the Information Society Forum (DFRLab, 3 June)
3. ‘This content isn’t available in Canada’: How Meta’s news ban is disrupting discourse about the Israel–Hamas war (ISD, 4 June)
4. A Sociotechnical Approach to AI policy (Data Society, 28 May)
5. Teen and Young Adult Perspectives on Generative AI: Patterns of Use, Excitements, and Concerns (Common Sense Media, 3 June)
6. Supersharers of fake news on Twitter (Science, 30 May)
7. Reviewing New Science on Social Media, Misinformation, and Partisan Assortment (Tech Policy Press, 9 June)

1.2 World News 

1. Dissecting Propaganda: Using AI to Cut Through North Korean TV Spin (GIJN, 6 June)
2. Ratings of the EU remain broadly positive in member countries, but have gone down slightly since 2022 (Pew, 3 June)
3. Defence Strategic Communications | Volume 14, Spring 2024 (NATO StratComCoE, 4 June)
4. AMMEBA: A Large-Scale Survey and Dataset of Media-Based Misinformation In-The-Wild (ArXiv, 21 May)

Russia & Ukraine