Docket+ 13 February
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Good morning! Don't miss -
* Disinformation Narratives Related to Sweden and Finland’s NATO Applications
* Navigating the Waves of Democracy in Thailand's 2023 Election
* Automating Terror: The Role and Impact of Telegram Bots in the Islamic State’s Online Ecosystem
And scroll to the end for upcoming events and latest jobs
* Disinformation Narratives Related to Sweden and Finland’s NATO Applications
* Navigating the Waves of Democracy in Thailand's 2023 Election
* Automating Terror: The Role and Impact of Telegram Bots in the Islamic State’s Online Ecosystem
And scroll to the end for upcoming events and latest jobs
Highlights
- 1st EEASreport on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats (EEAS, February)
- Report on the 2022 EU Code of Practice on Disinformation (DisinfoCode, February)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- Avoiding the success trap: Toward policy for open-source software as infrastructure (Atlantic Council, 8 February)
- The Quagmire Model: How a small step can trap you in the quagmire of misinformation, hate speech and denialism (Research Square, 9 February)
- Online Misinformation Video Detection: A Survey (ArXiv, 7 February)
- Entity-Aware Dual Co-Attention Network for Fake News Detection (ArXiv, 7 February)
- Does AI-Assisted Fact-Checking Disproportionately Benefit Majority Groups Online? (ArXiv, 7 February)
- Data sovereignty and platform neutrality – A comparative study on tiktok’s data policy (SAGE, 6 February)
- More of the Same? Homogenization in News Recommendations When Users Search on Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter (T&F, 8 February)
- Common Nonsense about Password Security and the Expert-Layperson Knowledge Gap (SSRN, 1 February)
Governance, Regulation & Content Moderation
- Resolving content moderation dilemmas between free speech and harmful misinformation (PNAS, 7 February)
- Reviewing War: Unconventional User Reviews as a Side Channel to Circumvent Information Controls (ArXiv, 1 February)
- Emerging platform governance: antitrust reform and non-competitive harms in digital platform markets (T&F, 6 February)