Docket+ 3 April

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Highlights

1. Building Resilience and Psychological Defence: An analytical framework for countering hybrid threats and foreign influence and interference (Lund University, March)
2. All the news that's fit to spam: The tale of a network of oddly similar "news" accounts on Bluesky that repost and follow one another (Conspirator Norteño, 29 March)
3. Kate Middleton and the fracturing of reality (Weaponised Spaces, 29 March)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Anti-Trans Content Widespread on Meta Platforms, Says New GLAAD Report (Tech Policy Press, 27 March)
2. For Government Use of AI, What Gets Measured Gets Managed (Lawfare, 28 March)
3. What Does CrowdTangle's Demise Signal for Data Access Under the DSA? (Tech Policy Press, 27 March)
4. Shaping opinions in social networks with shadow banning (PlosOne, 27 March)

AI

1. Content policy is basically astrology? (part one) (Everything in Moderation, 25 March)
   

1.2 World News 

1. Inauthentic campaign amplifying Islamophobic content targeting Canadians (DFRLab, 28 March)
2. Murthy v. Missouri, Government Jawboning, and Our Collective Disinformation Problem (Columbia University, 22 March)
3. Facebook Usage and Outgroup Intolerance in Myanmar (T&F, 26 March)

Russia & Ukraine

1. Suspicious Facebook assets amplify pro-Kremlin Bulgarian ‘mushroom’ websites (DFRLab, 26 March)
2. Putin’s re-election and the messages it brings (EUvsDisinfo, 21 March)
3. 25 March Belarus Freedom Day amid repression (EUvsDisinfo, 25 March)
4. The Kremlin’s call for peace is still masking a bloody empire (EUvsDisinfo, 27 March)
5. Hinterland on fire (EUvsDisinfo, 28 March)