Docket+ 4 March

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Highlights

1. Who Voters Trust for Election Information in 2024 (Bipartisan Policy Center, 26 February)
2. The distorting effects of producer strategies: Why engagement does not reveal consumer preferences for misinformation (PNAS, 27 February)
3. Securing Federated Platforms: Collective Risks and Responses (Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 28 February)
4. Undermining Ukraine: How Russia widened its global information war in 2023 (DFRLab, 29 February)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. How We Investigated Shadowbanning on Instagram (The Markup, 25 February)
2. On Risk Assessment and Mitigation for Algorithmic Systems (Integrity Institute, February)
3. Digital Watermarks Are Not Ready for Large Language Models (Lawfare, 29 February)
4. Content Modeling in Multi-Platform Multilingual Social Media Data (Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 28 February)
5. Assuming Good Faith Online (Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 28 February)

AI

1. For Personalized AI, How Agreeable Is Too Agreeable? (Tech Policy Press, 28 February)

1.2 World News 

1. The relationship between political ideology and judgements of bias in distributional outcomes (Nature, 26 February)
2. Foreign Interference and the Incremental Chilling of Free Speech (SAGE, 28 February)
3. #WeAreNotSafe – Exposing How a Post-October 7th Disinformation Network Operates on Israeli Social Media (Reichman University, 21 February)

Russia & Ukraine

1. Kremlin leaks: How Putin turned the Red Cross into a tool of propaganda in war (VSquare, 27 February)
2. Kremlin leaks: Secret files reveal how Putin pre-rigged his reelection (VSquare, 26 February)
3. Reflection on two years of war and disinformation (EUvsDisinfo, 24 February)
4. Years of war (EUvsDisinfo, 29 February)
5. Two Years On: An Analysis of Russian State and Pro-Kremlin Information Warfare in the Context of the Invasion of Ukraine (ISD, 23 February)
6. Cyber-enabled influence operations as a ‘center of gravity’ in cyberconflict: The example of Russian foreign interference in the 2016 US federal election (SAGE, 27 February)
7. Why do Citizens Choose to Read Fact-Checks in the Context of the Russian War in Ukraine? The Role of Directional and Accuracy Motivations in Nineteen Democracies (SAGE, 29 February)
8. Are Russian Narratives Amplified by PRC Media? A Case Study on Narratives Related to Sweden’s and Finland’s NATO Applications (NATO StratCom CoE, 22 February)