Docket+ 16 January
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* Reactions to events in Brazil on 8 January
* Exposure to the Russian Internet Research Agency foreign influence campaign on Twitter in the 2016 US election and its relationship to attitudes and voting behavior
* Scroll down for a full round up of upcoming events and job opportunites
Highlights
- How China funds foreign influence campaigns: CCP financial statements reveal details of influence operations, from news programming to documentaries to feature films (DFRLab, 12 January)
- Evidence-Based Misinformation Interventions: Challenges and Opportunities for Measurement and Collaboration (CEIP, 9 January)
- How Meta and Google enabled and profited from the terrorist attacks in Brazil's capital (SumofUs, 11 January)
- Exposure to the Russian Internet Research Agency foreign influence campaign on Twitter in the 2016 US election and its relationship to attitudes and voting behavior (Nature, 9 January)
What strategies do political trolls use to drive collective action? How effective are they?
— Dr. Saiph Savage (@saiphcita) January 13, 2023
Our ICWSM paper conducted a large scale data analysis on this.
We uncovered how they created bots for sustain engagement & promoting a collective identity
➡️https://t.co/6Frbyzzu3X pic.twitter.com/QrrJEFxoGE
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- Different platforms, different uses: testing the effect of platforms and individual differences on perception of incivility and self-reported uncivil behavior (Oxford Academic, 10 January)
- When falsehood wins? Varied effects of sensational elements on users’ engagements with real and fake posts (Science Direct, 10 January)
- The Social, Civic, and Political Uses of Instagram in Four Countries (JQD, 9 January)
- 'Deepfakes' in the Courtroom (SSRN, 10 January)
- Generative Language Models and Automated Influence Operations: Emerging Threats and Potential Mitigations (Stanford University, 11 January)
Governance, Regulation & Content Moderation
- Trade-offs between reducing misinformation and politically-balanced enforcement on social media (PsyArXiv, 13 January)
- Understanding the (In)Effectiveness of Content Moderation: A Case Study of Facebook in the Context of the U.S. Capitol Riot (Cyber Security for Democracy, January)
Information spread
- Links shared by prominent accounts on Twitter differ widely from those shared on alternative social media (Pew, 12 January)
- Learning from Shared News: When Abundant Information Leads to Belief Polarization (Oxford Academic, 9 January)