Disinfo Docket 2 October
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Highlights
- From Cambridge Analytica to Tenet Media: What Will it Take for the US to Regulate Influence Firms? (Tech Policy Press, 24 September)
- Edelman celebrates the launch of its new Counter Disinformation Unit with the publication of its 2024 Connected Crisis Study (Edelman, October)
- Reporting beyond bars: Belarusian journalists on returning to work after imprisonment (IJNet, 1 October)
- Legal action underway to force Canadian Forces to release propaganda documents (Ottawa Citizen, 2 October)
- 24 hours of MAGA misinformation (The Washington Post, 1 October)
- To combat misinformation, start with connection, not correction (NPR, 30 September)
1. Academia & Research
- Conservative users' misinformation sharing drives higher suspension rates, not platform bias (Phys.org, 2 October)
- Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions (Nature, 2 October)
A new study confirms that conservative voters have slightly larger amygdalas, linking brain structure to political ideology. These findings suggest that biological factors may influence how individuals perceive and react to political and social issues. https://t.co/b4wcPQCPvC
— PsyPost.org (@PsyPost) October 1, 2024
2. Platforms & Technology
- Making Social Media Safer Requires Meaningful Transparency (Tech Policy Press, 2 October)
- Pivot to video 2.0, Reddit’s rise, and what comes after pageviews: Our notes from ONA 2024 (Nieman Lab, 30 September)
- California governor blocks landmark AI safety bill (BBC, 30 September)
- Why the fake news confidence trap could be your downfall (The Guardian, 1 October)
3. Russia & Ukraine
- What He Said and What it Really Means – Vol. 8: The Kremlin’s disinformation galore at UNGA (EUvsDisinfo, 30 September)
- Social identity correlates of social media engagement before and after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine (Nature, 1 October)