Docket+ 8 May
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* 2023 World Press Freedom Index: Journalism under Threat from ‘Fake Content Industry’
* Transgressive transitions; Transphobia, community building, and community bridging within Aotearoa New Zealand’s disinformation ecologies
* To secure the Black Sea, the West must help Moldova stand up to Russian aggression
Highlights
- “Right on target” - but which target (EUvsDisinfo, 4 May)
Tuesday 9 May 5pm BST GNET is launching an important report on the impact of extremist content & researcher wellbeing. The authors surveyed researchers about their experiences and measured their physiological response while viewing content.
— GNET (@GNET_research) May 6, 2023
Register here:https://t.co/wmQ3aP7aVn pic.twitter.com/SvnUfaiH3R
Measuring partisanship and partisan “leaning” is relatively easy in the U.S. because the nation’s political system has only two dominant parties. But the same task is more challenging in countries with more than two prominent parties. https://t.co/ILEfPp5nZV
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) May 5, 2023
Kremlin #disinformation & historical revisionism scapegoats Poland and projects Moscow’s own imperial ambitions, trying to smear Poland as a warmonger and a ‘vassal’ of the US trying to annex parts of Ukraine and Belarus. #DontBeDeceived
— EUvsDisinfo (@EUvsDisinfo) May 6, 2023
Read more :https://t.co/JBwDUb2kYs
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- After Musk’s takeover, big shifts in how Republican and Democratic Twitter users view the platform (Pew, 1 May)
- Social drivers and algorithmic mechanisms on digital media (PsyArXiv, 4 May)
- Misinformation messages shared via WhatsApp in Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic: an exploratory study (Oxford Academic, 4 May)
- Amplification of emotion on social media (Nature, 3 May)
1.2 World News
- Transgressive transitions; Transphobia, community building, and community bridging within Aotearoa New Zealand’s disinformation ecologies March-April 2023 (Disinformation Project, 5 May)
- Emotions in misinformation studies: Distinguishing affective state from emotional response and misinformation recognition from acceptance (PsyArXiv, 5 May)
- Strategic disinformation outperforms honesty in competition for social influence (PsyArXiv, 4 May)
- Beijing's global media offensive: China's uneven campaign to influence Asia and the world (Oxford Academic, 2 May)
- Crises information dissemination through social media in the UK and Saudi Arabia: A linguistic perspective (Plos One, 5 May)