DisinfoDocket 19 October

DisinfoDocket curates influence operations-related academic research, news, events and job opportunities.

Highlights:

1. Report Profiles Far-Right Hate and Extremist Groups in Australia (GPAHE, 5 October)
2. Information Warfare and Wikipedia (ISD/CASM, October)

The Hunt for Wikipedia's Disinformation Moles (Wired, 17 October)

Researchers Say 'Suspicious' Edits on Wikipedia Reek of Pro-Russian Propaganda (Gizmodo, 18 October)

1. The Misinformation Beat, Translated: To report an article on the spread of false narratives in non-English languages, the journalist Tiffany Hsu spent time on fringe platforms — and Google Translate. (NYT, 18 October)
2. Dealing with the Emotional Toll of Investigative Journalism  (GIJN, 18 October)
3. The Art of Persuasion in a Polarized Age (Time, 18 October)
4. The Wire pulls its Meta stories (Platformer, 19 October)

LISTEN: Ye's Parlay, Rupert's Reunion, and Guest Anne Applebaum (Pivot, October)

1. Academia & Research

1. The Venomous Rhetorical Web of Far-Right Terrorists (GNET, 17 October)
2. The Role of Hostile States in Britain’s Academic Institutions: A Data Summary (Henry Jackson Society, 17 October)
3. Stifling the press is stifling progress. Here’s how policymakers can intervene. (Atlantic Council, 17 October)
4. WeChat users are begging Tencent to give their accounts back after talking about a Beijing protest (MIT, 16 October)
5. Freedom on the Net 2022: Countering an Authoritarian Overhaul of the Internet (Freedom House, October)
6. Conspiracy Theorists, Right-wing Politicians Fuel Nord Stream Disinformation (CEPA, 17 October)
7. Russian disinformation in Africa: What’s sticking and what’s not (Brookings, 17 October)
8. Using Social Media Data to Reveal Patterns of Policy Engagement in State Legislatures (Cambridge Core, 18 October)
9. Looking to the Midterms: The State of Platform Policies on U.S. Political Speech (Tech Policy Press, 13 October)
10. Chinese and Russian Perceptions of and Responses to U.S. Military Activities in the Space Domain (RAND, October)