Docket+ 16 December

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Highlights

1. Multi-Species Cohesion: Humans, machinery, AI and beyond (ArXiv, 2024)
2. Q4 2024 Snapshot: Latinos and WhatsApp (DDIA, 10 December)
3. Divergent patterns of engagement with partisan and low-quality news across seven social media platforms (OSF, 9 December)
4. FIRE Guide to Freelancer Protection: Assessing the liability practices of publishers and broadcasters (FIRE)
5. Improving debriefing practices for participants in social science experiments (Oxford Academic, 3 December)
6. Dodging the autocratic bullet: enlisting behavioural science to arrest democratic backsliding (Cambridge University Press, 10 December)
7. Sanctioned but Thriving: How Online Platforms Fail To Address the Widespread Presence of Entities Under EU Sanctions (Science Feedback, 11 December)
8. Holiday Hoaxes Unwrapped: Fake Trees, Freebies, & Shopping Sprees (Graphika, 10 December)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. The Flexibility Trap: How Algorithms Drive Precarity in Platform Work (Tech Policy Press, 10 December)
2. The Role of Social Media by Advocacy Groups in Influencing Public Opinion and Driving Change; A Global Perspective (SSRN, 11 December)
3. Political trolling on TikTok (Science Direct, January 2025)
4. CARES: A commonsense knowledge-enriched and graph-based contextual learning approach for rumor detection on social media (Science Direct, 10 December)
5. Online social media and populism in Europe (Science Direct, January 2025)
6. Patterns of linguistic simplification on social media platforms over time (PNAS, 6 December)
7. Navigating Political Disagreement on Social Media: How Affective Responses and Belonging Influence Unfollowing and Unfriending (Cogitatio, 5 December)

AI & LLMs

1. Critical Reasoning with AI: Using public discourse to teach political science (The End(s) of Argument, 12 December)
2. The Intersection of Social Media and Artificial Intelligence: Examining Their Combined Influence on News Dissemination and Credibility in the Digital Age (SSRN, 11 December)
3. Generative language models exhibit social identity biases (Nature, 12 December)

Availability and spread of information

1. Risk Perceptions of Misinformation Exposure Across Platforms, Issues, Modalities, and Countries: A Comparative Study Across the Global North and South (Sage, 7 December)