Docket+ 14 November
Docket+ is a weekly roundup of the latest influence operations-related academic research, events and job opportunities.
Hi! I'm Victoria and welcome to DisinfoDocket. Docket+ is a weekly roundup of the latest influence operations-related academic research, events and job opportunities.
Highlights:
- Monetization of social media engagements increases the sharing of false (and other) news but penalization moderates it (OSF Preprints, 10 November)
- Countering Violent Extremism Governance and Communications Strategy Paper (USAID, November)
- The Problem With Defining “Disinformation” (CEIP, 10 November)
- Opaque and Overstretched, Part II: How platforms failed to curb misinformation during the Kenyan 2022 election (Mozilla, November)
Facebook, TikTok, Twitter failed election integrity test in Kenya’s elections (TechCrunch, 11 November)
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Below the paywall, this morning's curation of Academia & Research includes:
* Our usual comprehensive coverage of the latest geographic and thematic influence operations-related research
* A focus on current job opportunites
* Research on COVID-19 disinformation, online harms, political polarization, countermeasures and much more.
* Our usual comprehensive coverage of the latest geographic and thematic influence operations-related research
* A focus on current job opportunites
* Research on COVID-19 disinformation, online harms, political polarization, countermeasures and much more.
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- Meta’s Oversight Board: A Review and Critical Assessment (SSRN, 24 October)
- Social media platforms and the drop box monitoring ecosystem (ISD, November)
- An HCI Research Agenda for Online Science Communication (University of Washington, November)
- A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy (Nature, 7 November)
- What Makes News Sharable on Social Media? (PsyArXiv, 9 November)
- Cross-lingual Transfer Learning for Check-worthy Claim Identification over Twitter (ArXiv, 9 November)
- ZK-IMG: Attested Images via Zero-Knowledge Proofs to Fight Disinformation (ArXiv, 9 November)
- The Affective Algorithms of Conspiracy TikTok (T&F, 10 November)
- An Interpretable Wide and Deep Model for Online Disinformation Detection (SSRN, 9 November)
- Detecting Fake News and Disinformation Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning To Avoid Supply Chain Disruptions (SSRN, 10 November)
- Twitter and Elon Musk: why free speech absolutism threatens human rights (LSE, 11 November)
- Identity effects in social media (Nature, 10 November)