Docket+ 19 February

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Highlights

1. Disinformation: A Back Pocket Guide: A review of Lee McIntyre, “On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy” (MIT 2023) (Lawfare, 16 February)
2. PORTAL KOMBAT: A structured and coordinated pro-Russian propaganda network (Viginum, February)
3. Digital Risks to the 2024 Elections: Safeguarding Democracy in the Era of Disinformation (NYU Stern, February)
4. Measuring what matters: Investigating what new types of assessments reveal about students’ online source evaluations (Harvard Misinformation Review, 12 February)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. ‘Choice Screen’ Fever Dream: Enforcers' New Favorite Remedy Won’t Blunt Google’s Search Monopoly (Tech Policy Press, 15 February)
2. On Social Media, Transparency Reporting is Anything But Transparent (Tech Policy Press, 15 February)
3. TikTok: Hate the Game, Not the Player (DFRLab, 14 February)
4. Do  You  Speak  Disinformation?  Computational  Detection  of  Deceptive  News-Like  Content  Using  Linguistic  and  Stylistic  Features (T&F, 15 February)
5. Why Is Instagram Search More Harmful Than Google Search? (Integrity Institute, 13 February)

AI

1. AI and the Future of Democracy in Africa: Navigating the Promise and the Peril (Tech Policy Press, 16 February)
2. Hacking with AI (DFRLab, 15 February)
3. Lying Blindly: Bypassing ChatGPT's Safeguards to Generate Hard-to-Detect Disinformation Claims at Scale (ArXiv, 13 February)

Susceptibility to disinformation

1. People Who Believe Implausible Claims are not Cognitive Misers: Evidence from Evaluation Tasks (OSF, 16 February)