Docket+ 13 March
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Highlights
- Seven steps to spread a conspiracy: How Russia promoted weapons trade allegations (DFRLab, 9 March)
- How will the US counter cyber threats? Our experts mark up the National Cybersecurity Strategy (CEIP, 3 March)
I have a new draft article about platform transparency mandates and the First Amendment. It is an attempt to take very seriously the questions likely headed to the Supreme Court in the NetChoice Texas/Florida law cases. 1/https://t.co/CbpL1W429q
— Daphne Keller (@daphnehk) March 9, 2023
Our team, the Propaganda Research Lab @EngagingNews @UTexasMoody, is hiring two summer research consultants! One will help us is research alongside U.S. diaspora communities combating disinfo, the other will help w global comparative work. Please share and apply! pic.twitter.com/6d9WwdJntN
— Samuel Woolley (@samuelwoolley) March 10, 2023
PhD position on social media/content moderation with dream team project leaders @nils_weidmann @mollyeroberts and @Yannis_Theo: https://t.co/kP9U5IkAMY
— Anita Gohdes (@ARGohdes) March 10, 2023
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- What Washington Gets Wrong About China and Technical Standards (CEIP, 27 February)
- Poll: Young people in 13 EU countries refuse surveillance of online communication (EDRi, 7 March)
- Improve academic search engines to reduce scholars’ biases (Nature, 20 January)
- Artificial and Computational Intelligence & Artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and digital misinformation (OSF, 5 March)
- Stylometric Detection of AI-Generated Text in Twitter Timelines (ArXiv, 7 March)
- TikTok: Influence Ops, Data Practices Threaten U.S. Security (Center for Internet Security, 9 March)
Governance, Regulation & Content Moderation
- Social Media Manipulation 2022/2023: Assessing the Ability of Social Media Companies to Combat Platform Manipulation (NATO StratComCoE, 3 March)
- SoK: Content Moderation for End-to-End Encryption (ArXiv, 7 March)
- Governing principles: Articulating values in social media platform policies (Sage, 7 March)
Information Spread
- Search engine effects on news consumption: Ranking and representativeness outweigh familiarity in news selection (SAGE, 6 March)
- Political Relational Influencers: The Mobilization of Social Media Influencers in the Political Arena (IJoC, 2023)
- Identifying Misinformation Spreaders: A Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Learning Approach (ArXiv, 7 March)
Information Integrity
- That's interesting! The role of epistemic emotions and perceived credibility in the relation between prior beliefs and susceptibility to fake-news (PsyArXiv, 6 March)