Docket+ 17 October
Docket+ is a weekly roundup of the latest influence operations-related academic research, events and job opportunities.
Docket+ is a weekly roundup of the latest influence operations-related academic research, events and job opportunities.
Highlights
- Request for survey participants: Understanding Barriers to Study Misinformation on Video-sharing Platforms (University of Maryland Medical Center, University of Maryland College Park, and New York University)
- Why Iranian protesters are embracing Anonymous (DFRLab, 13 October)
- Myanmar Internet report detailing what was happening on and with Facebook in the lead up to the Rohingya genocide (Myanmar Internet, October)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- Detecting Propagators of Disinformation on Twitter Using Quantitative Discursive Analysis (ArXiv, 11 October)
- Hate-CLIPper: Multimodal Hateful Meme Classification based on Cross-modal Interaction of CLIP Features (ArXiv, 13 October)
- The Inventory is Dark and Full of Misinformation: Understanding the Abuse of Ad Inventory Pooling in the Ad-Tech Supply Chain (ArXiv, 13 October)
- Deplatforming and the Control of Misinformation: Evidence from Parler (SSRN, 10 October)
- People think that social media platforms do (but should not) amplify divisive content (PsyArXiv, 12 October)