Docket+ 29 September

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Highlights

1. Paid to post: Russia-linked ‘digital army’ seeks to undermine Moldovan election (DFRLab, 24 September)
2. Remote Control: How Moldovan Diasporas are Targeted by Shadow News Outlets Ahead of the Elections (Active Fence, 22 September)
3. Authoritarian Drift and Social Media’s Impact on Romanian Youth During the 2024 European Elections (Cogitatio, 25 September)
4. From Principles to Practice: Strengthening Information Integrity (UN, September)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Attention-based Mixture of Experts for Robust Speech Deepfake Detection (ArXiv, 22 September)
2. Coordinated inauthentic behaviour on Facebook? A typology of manufactured attention (SAGE, 18 September)
3. Research on False Information Detection Based on Herd Behavior From a Social Network Perspective (SAGE, 24 September)

AI & LLMs

1. What Does It Take To Moderate AI Overviews? (Tech Policy Press, 22 September)
2. How National AI Clouds Undermine Democracy (Tech Policy Press, 24 September)
3. What Research Says About AI Chatbots and Addiction (Tech Policy Press, 24 September)
4. Toxicity in Online Platforms and AI Systems: A Survey of Needs, Challenges, Mitigations, and Future Directions (Science Direct, 24 September)

1.2 World News 

1. Digital Threat Modeling Under Authoritarianism (Lawfare, 22 September)
2. Opinions of the EU remain mostly favorable across 25 countries (Pew, 22 September)
3. More Americans get news about government and politics than about other topics (Pew, 18 September)
4. Cooperative Dynamics of Censorship, Misinformation, and Influence Operations: Insights from the Global South and U.S (ArXiv, 22 September)
5. Repeat until true: The big lie as narrative weapon in participatory authoritarianism (SAGE, 24 September)