Docket+ 15 July

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Highlights

1. Influencers and Hyperpartisan Media Promote Conspiracy Theories Following the Attempted Assassination of Former US President Trump (InfoEpi Lab, 14 July)
2. Researchers Develop Taxonomy of Generative AI Misuse From Real World Data (Tech Policy Press, 10 July)
3. Information warfare: five ways Russia captured Ukrainian media (Centre for Information Resilience, 6 July)
4. Anti-Ukraine narratives spread following Kyiv children’s hospital attack (DFRLab, 10 July)
5. Where Do Trolls Say They Are? Understanding the Use of Place Claims in Nation State Influence Operations (Oxford Academic, 8 July)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Debate: How the business model of social media fuels the need for greater moderation (Wiley, 10 July)
2. Behind the Deepfake: 8% Create; 90% Concerned. Surveying public exposure to and perceptions of deepfakes in the UK (ArXiv, 8 July)
3. The Tug-of-War Between Deepfake Generation and Detection (ArXiv, 8 July)
4. Understanding the health misinformation dissemination on Twitter: The perspective of tweets-comments consistency (Science Direct, June)
5. From news websites to social media: Unpacking the influence of online channels on presumed influence and responses to misinformation (Science Direct, 10 July)
6. Clicks and Tricks: The Dark Art of Online Persuasion (Science Direct, 10 July)

1.2 World News 

1. Spambots continue to suppress speech and enable harassment of the Chinese community on X (DFRLab, 8 July)
2. How Kenya’s tax bill protests spread online (DFRLab, 9 July)
3. Xerox soldiers, YouTube commanders and Twitter brigades: information warfare in eastern Congo (Oxford Academic, 10 July)
4. Pointing Fingers in the Disinformation Era: How Journalists and Politicians Perceive Each Other’s Role in Spreading Disinformation and Its Impact on their Relationship (T&F, 7 July)
5. The web of Big Lies: state-sponsored disinformation in Iran (T&F, 10 July)
6. Japanese mainstream media and the challenge of gendered disinformation (T&F, 10 July)
7. Public Information Officers’ Use of Social Media Monitoring: An Updated Analysis of Current Practice (SSRN, 10 July)