DisinfoDocket 25 May
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* Misinformation about perimenopause on social media ‘putting women at risk’
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* Iran Is Trolling Us and We’re Not Doing Anything About It
Highlights
- How hate spreads online and why it returns: Re-entrant phases driven by collective behavior (arXiv, 20 May)
- Ebola doctors battle conspiracies and misinformation amid outbreak (The Telegraph, 22 May)
- The Unintended Consequences of Iran’s Asymmetric Strategy and America’s AI War (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 13 May)
- Preserving the future of vaccine science in the USA (Nature, 22 May)
- Trump’s DOJ purges site of news releases on Jan 6 attack branding them ‘partisan propaganda’ (The Independent, 23 May)
1. Academia & Research
- Disinformation in Practice: Threats, Actors, Mechanisms, and Constraints According to Professionals (OSF, 22 May)
2. Platforms & Technology
- AI is minting new billionaires, and workers want their share (Rest of World, 22 May)
- Meta settles social media addiction case with US school district (BBC, 21 May)
- Disentangling Interaction and Bias Effects in Opinion Dynamics of Large Language Models (arXiv, 22 May)