Docket+ 17 February

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Highlights

1. Assessing National Information Ecosystems: To know how a system has changed, one must first know what constitutes the system and its prior state. (CEIP, 11 February)
2. Looking for Love on All the Wrong Pages (Graphika, 12 February)
3. Iran’s Press TV in the foreign influence wilderness (DFRLab, 6 February)
4. Citizen preferences for online hate speech regulation (Oxford Academic, 12 February)
5. The State(s) of Foreign Information Operations A State-by-State Look at Foreign Information Manipulation in the United States (GMF, February)
6. CALL FOR PAPERS: The Paris Conference on AI & Digital Ethics 2025 invites academics and industry experts to submit papers exploring the ethical, societal, and political implications of AI and digital technologies.

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Commission requests information from Shein on illegal products and its recommender system (European Commission, 6 February)
2. A New Hybrid Intelligent Approach for Multimodal Detection of Suspected Disinformation on TikTok (ArXiv, 9 February)
3. YouTube as an information source in deep margin elevation: Reliability, accuracy and quality analysis (PlosOne, 7 February)
4. X under Musk’s leadership: Substantial hate and no reduction in inauthentic activity (PlosOne, 12 February)
5. Emily Hund. The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media (SAGE, 12 February)
6. Unravelling social media critical discourse studies (SM-CDS) – four approaches to studying social media through the critical lens (T&F, 13 February)
7. Understanding information credibility evaluation on bounded social media places: A mixed methods study (T&F, 13 February)

AI & LLMs

1. Musk & Trump AI motivational slopaganda got 700 million TikTok views (Faked Up, 12 February)
2. How can safety cases be used to help with frontier AI safety? (AISI, 10 February)
3. Discussing the Copyrightability of Generative AI Outputs (Tech Policy Press, 12 February)
4. Breaking the News: A LLM-based Game where Players Act as Influencer or Debunker for Raising Awareness About Misinformation (ArXiv, 7 February)
5. Desing and Methodological Process for Assessing Quasi-Experiments in Virtual Reality Environments for Deepfake Recognition in the Artificial Intelligence Era (SSRN, 7 February)
6. Tech Companies Pledged to Protect Elections from AI — Here’s How They Did (Brennan Center, 13 February)

Platform Announcements

1. Meta and Childhelp Launch Curriculum to Help Students Avoid Online Exploitation (Meta, 11 February)