Docket+ 2 October

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Highlights

1. Measuring the monetization strategies of websites with application to pro- and anti-vaccine communities (Nature, 25 September)
2. How the People's Repuablic of China seeks to reshape the global information environment (GEC, September)

LISTEN: The Yoel Roth - Linda Yaccarino Showdown (On with Kara Swisher, 28 September)

We partnered with @TTP_updates to examine whether four major social media platforms are potentially profiting from ad placements alongside searches for hate groups and extremists. Read more about our findings and recommendations: https://t.co/7flBy5T7Qv

— ADL (@ADL) September 27, 2023

1/3 📣 The @CyberPeaceInst's Humanitarian Security Center (HCC) introduces: @Under_Served. An #EUfunded project to develop a threat reporting & analysis platform for vulnerable communities susceptible to cyber-attacks. ➡️ Visit the @Under_Served website👇 https://t.co/K59OJi1NC0

— CyberPeace Institute (@CyberpeaceInst) September 21, 2023

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Humorous hate speech on social media: A mixed-methods investigation of users’ perceptions and processing of hateful memes (SAGE, 23 September)
2. Computational Communication Methods for Examining Problematic News-Sharing Practices on Facebook at Scale (SAGE, 26 September)
3. ‘Definitely not in the business of wanting to be associated’: Examining public relations in a deplatformization controversy (SAGE, 27 September)
4. Platforms' policies on AI manipulated and generated misinformation (EU DisinfoLab, 28 September)

1.2 World News

1. How Americans see the state of gender and leadership in business (Pew, 27 September)
2. Enlisting Useful Idiots: The Ties Between Online Harassment and Disinformation (SSRN, 25 September)
3. The puzzle of misinformation: Exposure to unreliable content in the United States is higher among the better informed (SAGE, 26 September)

Russia & Ukraine

1. Getting It Right about Russia-Friendly Voices in Africa: 3 Traps to Avoid (EUvsDisinfo, 22 September)
2. Shaping and manipulating the information space (EUvsDisinfo, 28 September)
3. The Kremlin’s twisted tale of peace (EUvsDisinfo, 27 September)
4. Ideology and cognitive stereotypes in media representation of the Russia–Ukraine conflict (SAGE, 28 September)