Docket+ 9 December

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Highlights

1. GIJN’s Top Investigative Tools of 2024 (GIJN, 2 December)
2. How to detect and analyse identity-based disinformation (EU DisinfoLab, 5 December)
3. Educational Orientation, Actively Open-Minded Thinking, and Democratic Ideals in the Assessment of News Credibility (OSF, 2 December)
4. Limited effectiveness of psychological inoculation against misinformation in a social media feed (OSF, 4 December)

LISTEN: Bluesky's Approach to Trust and Safety - Aaron Rodericks talks through the tradeoffs the decentralized platform is facing with rapid growth (Anchor Change, 5 December)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Platforms and the Presidency: An Unprecedented Situation (Tech Policy Press, 3 December)
2. Musk Reinvented Platform Power. We Should Take Heed (Tech Policy Press, 4 December)
3. Elon Musk is a magnet as well as a megaphone for misinformation, majorities around the world think platforms should moderate false content, and BlueSky starts banning dupes (Faked Up, 4 December)
4. Navigating Political Disagreement on Social Media: How Affective Responses and Belonging Influence Unfollowing and Unfriending (Cogitatio, 5 December)
5. Deepfake Technology: Overview and Emerging Trends in Social Media (SSRN, 4 December)

AI & LLMs

1. Search for the known unknowns, LLMs for the unknown unknowns (The End(s) of Argument, 5 December)
2. Flattering to Deceive: The Impact of Sycophantic Behavior on User Trust in Large Language Model (ArXiv, 3 December)
3. Fact-checking information from large language models can decrease headline discernment (PNAS, 4 December)

Availability and spread of information

1. Researchers Consider the Relationship Between Misinformation, Outrage, and the Sharing of Content on Social Media (Tech Policy Press, 4 December)
2. People will share misinformation that sparks “moral outrage” (ArsTechnica, 2 December)
3. Misinformation spreads by making people mad (Science, 3 December)
4. Misinformation exploits outrage to spread online (Science, 28 November)

1.2 World News 

1. Desinformación: Responding to Targeted Spanish-Language Misinformation (Brennan Center, 3 December)
2. Disinformation elicits learning biases (OSF, 2 December)
3. How Hack and Leak Shapes Public Policy (Risky Biz, 5 December)
4. Digital Barricades and Blackouts: A Case of Internet Shutdowns in India (Cogitatio, 3 December)
5. Effects of heuristic and systematic cues on perceived content credibility of Sina Weibo influencers: the moderating role of involvement (Nature, 2 December)