Docket+ 19 June
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* Partisans are more likely to entrench their beliefs in misinformation when political outgroup members fact-check claims
* To be a pro-vax or not, the COVID-19 vaccine conundrum on Twitter
* Partisans are more likely to entrench their beliefs in misinformation when political outgroup members fact-check claims
* To be a pro-vax or not, the COVID-19 vaccine conundrum on Twitter
Highlights
- Using Website Referrals to Identify Misinformation Rabbit Holes (OSF, 13 June)
- Quantifying the potential persuasive returns to political microtargeting (PNS, 12 June)
- Social bot detection in the age of ChatGPT: Challenges and opportunities (First Monday, 25 May)
- Recognition Crisis: Coming to Terms with Identity, Attention and Political Communication in the Twenty-First Centur (T&F, 8 June)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- Algorithm-Mediated Social Learning in Online Social Networks (OSF, 13 June)
- From Bad to Worse: Using Private Data to Propagate Disinformation on Online Platforms with a Greater Efficiency (ArXiv, 8 June)
- Supporting a Safer Internet (CIGI, 8 June)
1.2 World News
- As Beijing’s Propaganda Grows More Aggressive, the West Should Take Note (CIGI, 8 June)
- Inclusive NatSec June 2023: How disinformation divides communities of colour (CNA, June)
- Freedom of speech and LGBT rights: Americans’ views of issues in Supreme Court case (Pew, 14 June)
- Support for the Black Lives Matter Movement Has Dropped Considerably From Its Peak in 2020 (Pew, 14 June)
- Could Fact-checks Intervene Directionally Motivated Reasoning and Mitigate Social Divisions? A Case Study in Hong Kong (Oxford Academic, 14 June)
- Religious reactions to gender identity: a comparative analysis of select Canadian and Australian Catholic schools (T&F, 14 June)