Docket+ 8 January

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Highlights

1. Can searching for false news increase belief in misinformation? Yes, by approximately 20 percent, according to our new paper, out today in @natureportfolio.bsky.social. In addition, this phenomenon is concentrated among individuals for whom search engines return lower quality information. (@csmapnyu.org, 20 December)
2. Online searches to evaluate misinformation can increase its perceived veracity (Nature, 20 December)
3. How Social-Media Rollbacks Endanger Democracy Ahead of the 2024 Elections (Free Press, December)
4. A Penny for Their Harm: What internal documents show about Facebook's harm to children and what parents can do to protect them (InfoEpi Lab, 20 December)
5. Infektion’s Evolution: Digital Technologies and Narrative Laundering (Clemson, 15 December)
6. YouTube: Supporting the 2024 United States election (YouTube, 19 December)
7. Google: How we’re approaching the 2024 U.S. elections (Google, 19 December)
8. Towards implementation of warrant-based content self-moderation (Springer, 27 December)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. New Research Suggests Online Search Can Increase Belief in Misinformation (Tech Policy Press, 20 December)
2. The Effects of Social Media Use on Teens' Body Image (Psychology Today, 31 December)
3. Can An Alliance Get Access to Platform Data for African Researchers? (Tech Policy Press, 5 January)
4. Teens and Social Media Fact Sheet (Pew, 5 January)
5. A Love Triangle? Mapping Interactions between International Human Rights Institutions, Meta and Its Oversight Board (Oxford Academic, 4 January)
6. Politics and Propaganda on Social Media: How Twitter and Meta Moderate State-Linked Information Operations (ArXiv, 4 January)

AI

1. In Generative AI we Trust: Can Chatbots Effectively Verify Political Information? (ArXiv, 20 December)
2. Exploding AI-Generated Deepfakes and Misinformation: A Threat to Global Concern in the 21st Century (SSRN, 27 December)