Docket+ 10 April

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Highlights

1. Misinformation Monitor: April 2023 (NewsGuard, April 2023)
2. Social Media Manipulation 2022/2023: Assessing the Ability of Social Media Companies to Combat Platform Manipulation (NATO StratCom CoE, 3 March)
3. Hybrid CoE Research Report 9: China’s hybrid influence in Taiwan: Non-state actors and policy responses (Hybrid CoE, 6 April)
4. Democracy in crisis: The challenges faced by Nigerian President-elect Bola Tinubu (Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, 23 March)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. The Role of Mental Representation in Sharing Misinformation Online (PsyArXiv, 5 April)
2. Misinformation due to asymmetric information sharing (Science Direct, May)

1.2 World News

1. How and why does official information become misinformation? A typology of official misinformation (Science Direct, April)
2. Executive function and the continued influence of misinformation: A latent-variable analysis (PlosOne, 5 April)
3. Emotions in misinformation studies: Distinguishing affective state from emotional response and misinformation recognition from acceptance (PsyArXv, 4 April)

Russia & Ukraine

1. Inclusive NATSEC: Masculinity and authoritarianism. Political leadership and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine (CNA, March)

1.3 Elections & Democracy

1. GCA and Partners Present a Global Elections Security Report (Global Cyber Alliance, 3 April)
2. Republicans are willingly making voter rolls less accurate (RStreet, 4 April)