Docket+ 11 December

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Highlights
- Using the SP!CE Framework to Code Influence Campaign Activity on Social Media: Case Study on the 2022 Brazilian Presidential Election (ArXiv, 5 December)
- Thinking Clearly About Misinformation (PsyArXiv, 8 December)
- “Female stupidity at its best. They all need to die.”: Violent and sexualised hate speech targeting women approved for publication by social media platforms (Global Witness, 7 December)
This latest report from Graphika looks into the growing problem of online services selling #AIGenerated, non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII).
— Graphika (@Graphika_NYC) December 8, 2023
Download the full report here: https://t.co/ll4AriSqhE pic.twitter.com/EtPYS0qqtM
We are recruiting a Policy Fellow to work with me and other colleagues on tackling misinformation about climate change. Details here: https://t.co/0UX2Lcok30
— Bob Ward (@ret_ward) December 8, 2023
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- Weapon or Tool?: How the Tech Community Can Shape Robust Standards and Norms for AI, Gender, and Peacebuilding (GNET, 6 December)
- “Hey, fellow humans!”: What can a ChatGPT campaign targeting pro-Ukraine Americans tell us about the future of generative AI and disinformation? (ISD, 5 December)
- Multimodal Misinformation Detection in a South African Social Media Environment (ArXiv, 7 December)
How do we learn whom to trust and how to tease apart information from misinformation? Excited to share our new preprint on this with Eric Schulz (@cpilab), @RaBhui and Peter Dayan (@MPICybernetics). 🧵👇 [1/n] pic.twitter.com/ehaZzM5vfS
— Lion Schulz (@Lion_Schulz) December 9, 2023
đź”´ A group of Members of Congress have expressed deep concerns about Meta and Instagram's child safety practices. Reports suggest troubling instances where the platforms may be steering users towards sexualized content involving children. #ChildSafety https://t.co/NButLHzrcH pic.twitter.com/wGXS2IRWNx
— Real Facebook Oversight Board (@FBoversight) December 8, 2023
1.2 World News
- Deceptive marketing ads used fake images of Polish politician (DFRLab, 7 December)
- Elections in Poland through the prism of Lukashenka regime’s propaganda (EUvsDisinfo, 6 December)
- The contextual interplay between advertising and online disinformation: How brands suffer from and amplify deceptive content (DeGruyter, 5 December)
- Factors Affecting Trust in Chinese Digital Journalism: Approach Based on Folk Theories (Cogitatio, 7 December)
- What is the disinformation problem? Reviewing the dominant paradigm and motivating an alternative sociopolitical view (ArXiv, 4 December)
- Dataset for Detecting and Characterizing Arab Computation Propaganda on X (SSRN, 1 December)
- Updating the Identity-based Model of Belief: From False Belief to the Spread of Misinformation (OSF, 8 December)
- Images of Syrian Civil War Take on a Second Life in Gaza Conflict (Bellingcat, 8 December)