Docket+ 27 March
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* Suspicious Twitter accounts promote hashtag attacking Egyptian human rights defender
* Education and awareness key to stopping online radicalisation
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Highlights
- How Disinformation on WhatsApp Went From Campaign Weapon to Governmental Propaganda in Brazil (SAGE, 22 March)
- Russian War Report: Kremlin edits footage of Mariupol visit to remove women shouting at Putin (DFRLab, 24 March)
- "For the zealous and the powerful, press freedom is annoying, even dangerous. They are the true enemies of the people" (Reuters Institute, 17 March)
- Israeli Disinformation Expert Linked to Faked Bank Accounts in Serbian Smear Campaign (OCCRP, 24 March)
Full Fact’s new WikiCred project investigates how connecting the work of accredited fact checkers with information about politicians can help build indicators of credibility and trustworthiness in our democracies. By @mr_dudders https://t.co/AOb5UoIUre
— MisinfoCon (@misinfocon) March 24, 2023
"It seems fair to say our field does not consider race to be an especially relevant factor in the study of political communication, and racism even less so."
— Center for Information, Technology, & Public Life (@unc_citap) March 24, 2023
New research from @dfreelon, @MeredithPruden, & @danielmalmer https://t.co/gHN5HGPHge
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- Fact signalling and fact nostalgia in the data-driven society (SAGE, 20 March)
Governance, Regulation & Content Moderation
- Under the Radar: Analyzing Recent Twitter Information Operations to Improve Detection and Removal of Malicious Actors, Part 1 (SSRN, 21 March)
Information Spread
- Moral leniency towards belief-consistent disinformation may help explain its spread on social media (Plos One, 22 March)
- Information battleground: Conflict perceptions motivate the belief in and sharing of misinformation about the adversary (Plos One, 22 March)
- How Can Social Media Limit Disinformation? (SSRN, 15 March)
Images & Visualisations
- Deepfakes: Vehicles for Radicalization, Not Persuasion (SAGE, 21 March)