Docket+ 24 April

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* How to investigate the Digital Threat Landscape
* Extremist NFTs: How Does Blockchain Immortalise Extremism?
* The Effect of Presentation Order on Misinformation Retention
* Repeated exposure increases professional content moderatorsā belief in false claims
Highlights
- Measuring the Monetization of Online Discourse with Application to Pro- and Anti-Vaccine Communities (OSF, 22 April)
- Hybrid threats: A comprehensive resilience ecosystem (Hybrid CoE, 20 April)
- Psychological Booster Shots Targeting Memory Increase Long-Term Resistance Against Misinformation (PsyArXiv, 18 April)
- What Makes News Sharable on Social Media? (PsyArXiv, 18 April)
- The need to up our game in countering disinformation (T&F, 15 March)
Researchers at the Observatory on Social Media, the IU Network Science Institute, and the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research will present 51 papers at various conferences over the summer! @IUImpact @IULuddy @IUNetSci https://t.co/6TAFhXRRiZ
— OSoMe (@OSoMe_IU) April 21, 2023
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
LISTEN: Truth and Consequences ā Disinformation and Misinformation (Sharkbytes, 19 April)
- Under the Radar: Analyzing Recent Twitter Information Operations to Improve Detection and Removal of Malicious Actors, Part 2 (SSRN, 17 April)
- āItās us against them up thereā: Spreading online disinformation as populist collective action (Science Direct, 14 April)
1.2 World News
Perpetrators presented hijacked pages as Googleās AI service Bard and convinced Facebook users, including a Georgian TV network, to download malicious software. Also found were hijacked pages that initially ran content in Spanish, Assamese, and English. https://t.co/djrwHRenqA
— DFRLab (@DFRLab) April 22, 2023
- State-controlled media experience sudden Twitter gains after unannounced platform policy change (DFRLab, 21 April)
- NewsGuard Exclusive: Beijing Deploys ChatGPT to Advance 'Biolabs' Disinformation Narrative (NewsGuard, 13 April)
- How Public Polling Has Changed in the 21st Century: 61% of national pollsters in the U.S. used methods in 2022 that differed from those of 2016 (Pew, 19 April)
- Being Chinese in Australia (Lowy Institute, April)
- Disinformation āgatecrashesā tourism: an empirical study (SocArXiv, 20 April)
- Name-based demographic inference and the unequal distribution of misrecognition (Nature, 17 April)
- Organic online politics: Farmers, Facebook, and Myanmar's military coup (SAGE, 16 April)
- On Shaky Ground: Reconsidering the Justifications for First Amendment Protection of Hate Speech (T&F, 19 April)