Docket+ 17 April
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* The impact of disinformation in Brazil's 2022 elections
* Persistent Violence and the Role of Digital Platforms in Northern Ireland Today
* Will AI-generated images create a new crisis for fact-checkers? Experts are not so sure
Highlights
The latest report from Graphika explores harassment dynamics within the #TaylorSwift fandom, providing a fascinating look at the ways fandoms split into factions and the behaviors they engage in to establish their preferred narratives. https://t.co/pzTzlPDsay
— Graphika (@Graphika_NYC) April 12, 2023
- Social media platforms and challenges for democracy, rule of law and fundamental rights (EU Parliament, April)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- A systematic review of research on physical activity-related misinformation on social media (PsyArXiv, 13 April)
- Overperception of moral outrage in online social networks inflates beliefs about intergroup hostility (Nature, 10 April)
- A review and provocation: On polarization and platforms (SAGE, 11 April)
Information Spread
- Broadcast information diffusion processes on social media networks: exogenous events lead to more integrated public discourse (Oxford Academic, 12 April)
1.2 World News
- Hybrid CoE Research Report 9: China’s hybrid influence in Taiwan: Non-state actors and policy responses (Hybrid CoE, 6 April)
- 'There should be government funding to pay for journalism': The Digital Journalism Association's proposal for social media platform regulation in Brazil (LatAm Journalism Review, 11 April)
Russia & Ukraine
Recipe for Kremlin's #disinfo stew:
— EUvsDisinfo (@EUvsDisinfo) April 15, 2023
• A pinch of Poland's imperialist ambitions
• A dash of elusive US bio labs in Ukraine
• A spoonful of twisted Romanian NATO stats.
Ditch the Kremlin toxic potions and instead savor the truth with #DisinfoReview: https://t.co/aQTVVVRUgL pic.twitter.com/buPAtH2eNh
- Waiting for another offensive (EUvsDisinfo)