Docket+ 23 October

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Highlights

1. Call for Papers: New Voices in Press Freedom (Knight First Amendment Institute)
2. Challenges and Considerations in Countering Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviours in the Democratic Republic of Congo (GNET, 17 October)
3. InfoEpi Lab Tools Library (InfoEpi, October)
4. The ‘new elites’ of X: Identifying the most influential accounts engaged in Hamas/Israel discourse (University of Washington, 20 October)
5. Race and rage: Examining rising anti-Māori racism and white supremacist ideologies in Aotearoa New Zealand (The Disinformation Project, 9 October)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Platform Transparency and the First Amendment (Journal of Free Speech, October)
2. TikTok’s Trials and Tribulations Mount (Tech Policy Press, 18 October)
3. Deepfake Detection With and Without Content Warnings (OSF, 16 October)
4. Resampling reduces bias amplification in experimental social networks (Nature, 16 October)
5. Large Language Models and Intelligence Analysis (Centre for Emerging Technology and Security, 2023)

1.2 World News 

1. “On WhatsApp I say what I want”: Messaging apps, diaspora communities, and networked counterpublics in the United States (SAGE, 16 October)
2. EFF 2022 Annual Report (EFF, October)
3. How Public Service Media Disinformation Shapes Hungarian Public Discourse (Cogitatio, 19 October)
4. Aotearoa New Zealand Hate Map Report (Khalifa Ihler Institute, 11 October)
5. China’s social-media attacks are part of a larger ‘cognitive warfare’ campaign (Defence One, 17 October)

Russia & Ukraine

1. Shrug of an Answer (EUvsDisinfo, 19 October)
2. Kremlin Communication Strategy for Russian Audiences Before and After the Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine (NATO StratCom CoE, 12 October)

Israel & Palestine

1. In Israel-Hamas conflict, social media become tools of propaganda and disinformation (DFRLab, 12 October)
2. Network of South Asian Twitter accounts spreading Israel-Palestine war disinfo (DFLab, 18 October)
3. Pro-Islamic State Supporters’ Responses to the Israel-Hamas Conflict (GNET, 19 October)
4. Disinformation about the Hamas-Israel conflict: Impacts on Aotearoa New Zealand (The Disinformation Project, 20 October)
5. The ‘new elites’ of X: Identifying the most influential accounts engaged in Hamas/Israel discourse (University of Washington, 20 October)
6. Violent and graphic content of the Gaza conflict served to minors’ accounts (ISD, 18 October)