Docket+ 29 May
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* How one journalist uses Instagram to pull back the curtain on her reporting process
* Online Incitement and Small-Scale Terrorism: Violent Rhetoric from the Freedom Movement on Facebook
* OSoME launches the Top FIBers dashboard
* How one journalist uses Instagram to pull back the curtain on her reporting process
* Online Incitement and Small-Scale Terrorism: Violent Rhetoric from the Freedom Movement on Facebook
* OSoME launches the Top FIBers dashboard
Highlights
- Why voters who value democracy participate in democratic backsliding (MIT, 22 May)
- The curious case of user one134500 and the most obvious reply spam ever (Conspirator Norteño, 22 May)
- Civic Information Handbook: How to recognize and compete with coordinated information campaigns (Hoaxlines, 24 May)
- The Top FIBers dashboard tracks and reports on the top ten superspreaders of low-credibility information on Twitter and Facebook each month. (OSoME)
Georgetown, @Knightfdn Commit $30M to New Institute on Tech Policy for the Common Good https://t.co/jK1RmsDiY5
— Georgetown University (@Georgetown) May 23, 2023
ICYMI: Kate @Klonick, @BKCHarvard's RSM Visiting Scholar, spoke to @themarkup about the recent Gonzales v Google and Twitter v Taamneh rulingshttps://t.co/OK55dPDeVJ
— Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (@BKCHarvard) May 23, 2023
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- On alternative social media sites, many prominent accounts seek financial support from audiences (Pew, 19 May)
- How Can We Know What We Think We Know about Cyber Operations? Â (Oxford Academic, 22 May)
- The power of platforms—precarity and place (Oxford Academic, 23 May)
Information Integrity
- If platforms are required to have your government IDs and face scans, hackers and enemy governments can access them too (RStreet, 22 May)
1.2 World News
- The Anatomy of Gaslighting, New qualitative research sheds light on key dynamics, motivations, and outcomes. (Psychology Today, 21 May)
- How Pew Research Center will report on generations moving forward (Pew, 22 May)
- How news site Daraj reports on women’s rights and corruption across the Middle East (Reuters Institute, 23 May)
- Political Discourse in China: How Does China Frame Hong Kong Protests to Its Domestic Audience? (Journal QD, 15 May)