Docket+ 3 March

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Highlights

1. City riots fed by transnational and trans-topic web-of-influence (ArXiv, 25 February)
2. Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service public report 2025 (Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service, February)
3. Guerre en Ukraine : trois années d’opérations informationnelles russes (Premier Ministre, 24 February)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. More Transparency and Less Spin: Analyzing Meta’s sweeping policy changes and their impact on users. (CCDH, 24 February)
2. Oversight Board’s Terrorist Watchlist Report Underscores Need for Major Overhaul (Brennan Center, 24 February)
3. Meta’s misguided path: global consequences of abandoning third-party fact-checking (T&F, 25 February)
4. As Facebook abandons fact-checking, it’s also offering bonuses for viral content (Nieman Lab, 25 February)
5. Bluesky: Network topology, polarization, and algorithmic curation (Plos One, 26 February)
6. Deepfakes, Online Platforms, And A Novel Proposal For Transparency, Collaboration, And Education (SSRN, 25 February)

AI & LLMs

1. Participatory AI: Forging Shared Frameworks for Action (Tech Policy Press, 26 February)
2. GenAI synthetic data create ethical challenges for scientists. Here’s how to address them. (PNAS, 26 February)
3. Towards the utilization of LLMs for misinformation modeling and detection. Comment on “LLMs and Generative Agent-Based Models for Complex Systems Research” by Lu et al. (Science Direct, 26 February)

Availability and spread of information

1. Why 2024 Was The Worst Year for Internet Shutdowns (Tech Policy Press, 24 February)
2. The Web Can Thrive Without Google’s Search Monopoly (Tech Policy Press, 24 February)
3. The True Cost of Browser Innovation: Why Chrome's Divestiture Wouldn't End the Open Web (Tech Policy Press, 24 February)

1.2 World News 

1. What the TikTok ban and Xiaohongshu’s brief popularity reveal about US-China relations and their tech sectors (DFRLab, 24 February)
2. Digital Vulnerabilities Unveiled: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Emerging Threats to Security and Privacy in the Age of Networked Communication (Wiley, 25 February)
3. Freedom of Speech and Expression on Social Media—A Comparison of India and China (Wiley, 25 February)
4. Redefining objectivity: Exploring types of evidence by fact-checkers in four European countries (SAGE, 23 February)