Docket+ 1 May
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* How misrepresentation and underrepresentation of disadvantaged communities undermine their trust in news
* Incel And The Incelosphere: An Overview Of Current Research And Understanding
* Avoiding Censorship: How to Move Anonymously on the Internet
Highlights
- Gaming public opinion: The CCP’s increasingly sophisticated cyber-enabled influence operations (ASPI, 26 April)
- The fifth issue of the Journal of Online Trust and Safety (Journal of Online Trust & Safety, 27 April)
- Hybrid threats: A comprehensive resilience ecosystem (Hybrid CoE, 20 April)
“Every time I have set out to search for coordinated disinformation in advance of an election or around conflicts, I have found it.”@DFRLab's @awildknight spoke with @AfricaACSS about domestic disinformation as a growing issue across Africa:https://t.co/IRHsI21jqz
— DFRLab (@DFRLab) April 29, 2023
News can help! - talked about research on the role of journalism in countering misinformation at @EDMO_EUI event.
— Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (@rasmus_kleis) April 26, 2023
In work led by @Sacha_Altay, we find that news helps people become more informed and, in some cases, more resilient to misinformation https://t.co/jzD5RElvOH 1/3 pic.twitter.com/6OheDrWsFB
This work on Twitter aligns with findings from @jigsaw on "Authorship Feedback" prompts to revise toxic comments - we found 34-40% of commenters revised their comments https://t.co/xB2Kf5wQLV
— Beth Goldberg (@_BGoldberg) April 28, 2023
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- The social media context interferes with truth discernment (Science Advances, 3 March)
- Quantifying ChatGPT’s gender bias (AI Snake Oil, 26 April)
Governance, Regulation & Content Moderation
- Evaluating Europe's push to enact AI regulations: how will this influence global norms? (T&F, 27 April)
- Tracking Experiences of Online Harms and Attitudes Towards Online Safety Interventions: Findings from a Large-Scale, Nationally Representative Survey of the British Public (SSRN, 24 April)
Information Spread
- How participatory propaganda operates through superusers: The effects of super commenters on Breitbart News (OSF, 26 April)
1.2 World News
- Weaponized Laughter: Memes and Hate in the Canadian Digital Landscape (Online Hate Research and Education Project, March)
- Executive function and the continued influence of misinformation: A latent-variable analysis (Plos One, 5 April)
- ‘Armed groups entered the lab’: Sudan’s researchers flee violent military conflict (Nature, 28 April)
- Turkey’s complicated relationship with social media: how authoritarianism and platforms can clash (Integrity Institute, 27 April)