Docket+ 24 October
Docket+ is a weekly roundup of the latest influence operations-related academic research, events and job opportunities.
Docket+ is a weekly roundup of the latest influence operations-related academic research, events and job opportunities.
Highlights
- Freedom on the Net 2022: Countering an Authoritarian Overhaul of the Internet (Freedom House, October)
- Only 1 in 4 Election Websites Uses the .gov Domain. That’s a Problem — and an Opportunity (CDT, 19 October)
🧵 After reviewing 51 papers on Covid-19 misinformation interventions as part of our living lit review and identifying over 60 different intervention outcomes in these papers, one thing has become clear:
— Brown Information Futures Lab (@IFL_Brown) October 21, 2022
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- Information Warfare and Wikipedia (ISD/CASM, October)
- WeChat users are begging Tencent to give their accounts back after talking about a Beijing protest (MIT, 16 October)
- Auditing YouTube's Recommendation Algorithm for Misinformation Filter Bubbles (ArXiv, 18 October)
- Of supranodes and socialwashing: network theory and the responsible innovation of social media platforms (T&F, 19 October)
- AI and Disinformation: State-Aligned Information Operations and the Distortion of the Public Sphere (SSRN, 18 October)
- Securing Data Flows: The Importance of an EU-U.S. Agreement on Data Transfers (Institute for Security and Technology, 19 October)
- An Audit of Facebook’s Political Ad Policy Enforcement (Usenix, 2022)
- Knight Institute Publishes First Essays from “Lies, Free Speech, and the Law” Symposium (Knight Columbia, 19 October)
- Platform Assumptions Are a Choice, Not a Given (CIGI, 20 October)