Docket+ 9 October

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1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Tokenization of social media engagements increases the sharing of false (and other) news but penalization moderates it (Nature, 22 August)
2. AI Voice Technology Used to Create Conspiracy Videos on TikTok, at Scale (News Guard, 28 September)
3. Stand for Something or Fall for Everything: Predict Misinformation Spread with Stance-Aware Graph Neural Networks (ArXiv, 4 October)
4. Optimizing fake news detection for Arabic context: A multitask learning approach with transformers and an enhanced Nutcracker Optimization Algorithm (Science Direct, 5 October)
5. Unraveling WhatsApp group dynamics to understand the threat of misinformation in messaging apps (SAGE, 30 September)
6. Report: A Trusted Framework for Cross-Border Data Flows (GMF, 5 October)
7. The Repressive Power of Artificial Intelligence (Freedom House, 2023)
8. The Jawboning Forests and Trees: Systemic problems require systemic solutions. (Columbia University, 4 October)
9. Jawboned: Dispatches from two former tech platform employees. (Columbia University, 4 October)

We found that TikTok pushes harmful body image & eating disorder content to teens within minutes of them joining the platform.@LauraLThornton writes in the @washingtonpost about our research & the need to regulate social media ⤵️ https://t.co/5UgoVsSzSh

— Center for Countering Digital Hate (@CCDHate) October 7, 2023

1.2 World News

1. Georgian travel company behind inauthentic network promotes health-related clickbait content (DFRLab, 3 October)
2. Suspicious Twitter accounts promote Saudi Arabia, call for reinstating Saud Al-Qahtani (DFRLab, 4 October)
3. Poles and Hungarians Differ Over Views of Russia and the U.S. (Pew, 2 October)
4. A Survey on the Role of Crowds in Combating Online Misinformation: Annotators, Evaluators, and Creators (ArXiv, 3 October)
5. The Far-Right Smokescreen: Environmental Conspiracy and Culture Wars on Brazilian YouTube (SAGE, 30 September)