Docket+ 16 October
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Highlights
- The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is calling for applications for its Disarming Disinformation programme, sponsored by the Scripps Howard Fund. (ICIR, 13 October)
- Illegal, violent terrorist content relating to Hamas-Israel conflict reaches millions on X (ISD, 13 October)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- How Third-Party Social Media Middleware Can Protect Contextual Privacy (Tech Policy Press, 11 October)
- Generative Agent-Based Social Networks for Disinformation: Research Opportunities and Open Challenges (ArXiv, 11 October)
- Malign foreign interference and information influence on video game platforms: Understanding the adversarial playbook (Psychological Defence Agency, 9 October)
1.2 World News
- Information Avoidance: Past Perspectives and Future Directions (SAGE, 11 October)
Israel & Palestine
- EU Regulator Challenges Musk as Falsehoods Flourish On X Amid Israel-Hamas War (Tech Policy Press, 10 October)
- Israel-Hamas War Misinformation Tracking Center: 15 Myths About the Conflict and Counting (NewsGuard, 11 October)
Russia & Ukraine
- The sound and the fury of the Kremlin’s deception (EUvsDisinfo, 12 October)
- Kremlin Communication Strategy for Russian Audiences Before and After the Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine (NATO StratCom CoE, 12 October)