3 November 2025
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* Trust in institutions and misinformation susceptibility both independently explain vaccine skepticism
* Authoritarian reach and democratic response: A tactical framework to counter and prevent transnational repression
* Post-Conflict Election in the Southern Philippines Postponed for Third Time: Is Peace Unraveling?
* Trust in institutions and misinformation susceptibility both independently explain vaccine skepticism
* Authoritarian reach and democratic response: A tactical framework to counter and prevent transnational repression
* Post-Conflict Election in the Southern Philippines Postponed for Third Time: Is Peace Unraveling?
Highlights
- Fraudulent account detection in social media using hybrid deep transformer model and hyperparameter optimization (Nature, 3 November)
- Rumors and fears about the HPV vaccine: Perceptions of adolescent girls in government school in Addis Ababa (T&F, 29 October)
- How Americans’ trust in information from news organizations and social media sites has changed over time (Pew Research Center, 29 October)
WATCH - How AI Tools Are Accelerating Pro-China Messages Online (Graphika)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- Quantifying the Causal Effects of Misinformation on Engagement and Emotions on Social Media (OSF, 31 October)
- Analyzing the Impact of Network Vulnerability Propagation Factor on Cyber Security Risk Assessment in Online Social Networks (Wiley, 3 November)
- The US Government’s Use of Elon Musk’s Grok AI Undermines Its Own Rules (Tech Policy Press, 30 October)
1.2 World News
- Myths and facts about SNAP (Media Matters for America, 31 October)
Russia & Ukraine
- Advantages of the connective strategic narrative during the Russian–Ukrainian war (Frontiers, EUvsDisinfo, 2025)
- Refinery blasts are NATO’s punishment for Hungary and Romania’s ties with Russia (EUvsDisinfo, 27 October)