Docket+ 27 January
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Highlights
- Joint action to expose Russia’s information manipulation attempts (EUvsDisinfo, 23 January)
- Before Shutdown, Meta’s Fact-Checking Program Only Labeled 14 Percent of Russian, Chinese, and Iranian Disinformation Posts (News Guard, 22 January)
- Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform (Nature, 24 January)
- Call for papers at ACM TIST "Risks and Unintended Harms of Generative AI Systems" (Deadline 31 May)
- Call for proposals on building trust in American institutions (Registration Deadline 19 February)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- Leveraging AI-Driven Tools for Capacity Building in Crisis Response: Enhancing Moderation and Crisis Management on Smaller Digital Platforms (GNET, 23 January)
- Posting and Reposting: Investigating Reputation, Trust, and Deniability in Online Communication (OSF, 20 January)
- Tailoring generative AI chatbots for multiethnic communities in disaster preparedness communication: extending the CASA paradigm (Oxford Academic, 24 January)
- Differential impact from individual versus collective misinformation tagging on the diversity of Twitter (X) information engagement and mobility (Nature, 24 January)
- ‘Google this!’ How performative links and search engines organise information disorders in a climate obstruction network (T&F, 23 January)
- Deepfake labels and detectors still don't work (Faked Up, 22 January)
Availability & Spread of Information
- Information Degradation and Misinformation in Gossip Networks (ArXiv, 22 January)
- Understanding screenshot collection and sharing on messaging platforms: a privacy perspective (Oxford Academic, 24 January)
The Platforms
- President Trump’s Attempt to “Save” TikTok is a Power-Grab that Subverts Free Speech (Just Security, 21 January)
- When Freedom Bites Back: Meta, Moderation, and the Limits of Tolerance (Tech Policy Press, 21 January)
- Free Speech Was Never the Goal of Tech Billionaires. Power Was. (Tech Policy Press, 22 January)
- Mark Zuckerberg’s Immoderate Proposal (Tech Policy Press, 21 January)
- Meta Discards Fact-Checking: The Fragile Future of Digital Integrity in Africa (Tech Policy Press, 23 January)
- Toxic Communication on TikTok: Sigma Masculinities and Gendered Disinformation (SAGE, 22 January)
- Selling followers where the skies are blue: Sketchy follower sales sites are (unsurprisingly) expanding to Bluesky (Conspirator Norteño, 24 January)
- Guest Post - Darkening Skies: Bots and Political Disinformation on Bluesky (Memetic Warfare, 23 January)
1.2 World News
- Countering International Backlash by Discrediting the Messengers: Reputational Chaining and LGBT+ Rights in Bosnia (SAGE, 23 January)
- From Aldana to Zamora and Everyone In-Between: Exploring the Guatemalan Far Right's Social Media Campaigns against Non-Allies (SAGE, 23 January)
- Strategic Communication in Peacekeeping Operations: The Case of MONUSCO (T&F, 20 January)
- The Effects of the Russo-Ukrainian War on the Kazakhstani Online Media Landscape (T&F, 24 January)