Docket+ 31 July
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* Pro-Russia actors target Armenia with anti-Ukraine propaganda
* Google News Initiative Grants in Africa and the Middle East Yield Mixed Results
* How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?
Highlights
- Integrity Institute: Shining a Light on Platform Transparency Best Practices (Integrity Institute, 26 July)
- Shouting into the Void: Why Reporting Abuse to Platforms Is So Hard and How to Fix It (Coalition Against Online Violence, July)
- A survey of expert views on misinformation: Definitions, determinants, solutions, and future of the field (Misinformation Review, 27 July)
Remember the videos of people licking ice cream and putting it back on the shelf? Such moral transgressions often go viral on social media with users seeing the same wrongdoing multiple times - how does that repetition affect people's beliefs? 1/
— Lisa Fazio (@lkfazio) July 26, 2023
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It's out! https://t.co/8glueaWEdL Quick 🧵
— Lisa Fazio (@lkfazio) July 14, 2023
We looked at how people remembered fact-checking articles that corrected rumors around the 2017 French election and if certain design features increased the articles' efficacy for correcting beliefs. 1/ https://t.co/ZkqDKZbV5f
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- 8 facts about Americans and Twitter as it rebrands to X (Pew Research, 26 July)
- A taxonomy and survey of big data in social media (Wiley, 24 July)
- Identifying Misinformation on YouTube through Transcript Contextual Analysis with Transformer Models (ArXiv, 22 July)
- Public and private beliefs under disinformation in social networks (ArXiv, 25 July)
- Fake news land? Exploring the impact of social media affordances on user behavioral responses: A mixed-methods research (Science Direct, 22 July)
- Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing (Nature, 27 July)
- Reshares on social media amplify political news but do not detectably affect beliefs or opinions (Science, 27 July)
Images & Visualisations
- Do people believe in misleading information disseminated via memes? The role of identity and anger (SAGE, 26 July)
Artificial Intelligence
- What label should be applied to content produced by generative AI? (PsyArXiv, 29 July)
- Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models (LLM Attacks, July)
- De-risking authoritarian AI (ASPI, 27 July)