Docket+ May 12

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Highlights

1. Analyse du mode opératoire informationnel russe Storm-1516 (SGDSN, 6 May)
2. Poland: Country Election Risk Assessment (FIMI-ISAC, 6 May)
3. Get Rich or Cry Tryin’ (Graphika, 7 May)
4. Republicans are flagged more often than Democrats for sharing misinformation on X’s Community Notes (OSF, 5 May)
5. Countering foreign influence on elections and democracy requires more—not less—research (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 5 May)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. What People Want from Platforms Isn’t What Musk and Zuckerberg Are Selling (Tech Policy Press, 6 May)
2. A longitudinal analysis of misinformation, polarization and toxicity on Bluesky after its public launch (ArXiv, 5 May)
3. Coordinated link sharing on Facebook (Nature, 5 May)
4. Platform responsibilities for information integrity (SSRN, 6 May)

AI & LLMs

1. Large Means Left: Political Bias in Large Language Models Increases with Their Number of Parameters (ArXiv, 7 May)
2. Towards High-Fidelity Synthetic Multi-platform Social Media Datasets via Large Language Models (ArXiv, 2 May)
3. Holmes: Automated Fact Check with Large Language Models (ArXiv, 6 May)
4. Elevating Cyber Threat Intelligence against Disinformation Campaigns with LLM-based Concept Extraction and the FakeCTI Dataset (ArXiv, 6 May)
5. Generative AI and Democracy: Risks and Impacts Behind the Production of Synthetic Public Opinion (SSRN, 6 May)

1.2 World News 

1. How Platform Shifts on Content Moderation Are Escalating Harm in the India-Pakistan Crisis (Tech Policy Press, 2 May)
2. Mainstreaming the manosphere: discourses of contemporary masculinity among Estonian manfluencers (Nature, 2 May)
3. Did he or didn’t he? Mixed evidence for the continued influence of retracted misinformation on person impressions (Plos One, 7 May)
4. Who believes in foreign disinformation? Evidence from a disinformation discernment exercise in Sweden (T&F, 6 May)
5. The Role of Information Warfarein Exacerbating Ethnic Tensions:A Case Study of Sinhala-Muslim Dynamics in SriLanka (SSRN, 6 May)