Docket+ 20 May

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Highlights

1. How the Kremlin launders disinformation around the globe (Centre for Information Resilience, 15 May)
2. Information Warfare and Its Casualties: Review of Peter Pomerantsev's How to Win an Information War (Lawfare, 14 May)
3. Knowledge Translation and Network Growth: The Knight Research Network in Its Third Year (SSRN, 15 May)
4. Research Paper Using Open Measures Data Reveals a New Use Case: NYU researchers studied how Kiwi Farms harassment attacks were sustained through the site's anti-abuse systems. This reveals a new use case for Open Measures tools. (Open Measures, 15 May)
5. Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation (Nature, 13 May)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. 76 million attempts to scam you on X, using celebrities (Malta, 16 May)
2. Targeting TikTok (Lawfare, 15 May)
3. Narrative Detection and Topic Modelling in the Baltics (NATO StratComCoE, 14 May)
4. Unveiling the Metaverse: A Survey of User Perceptions and the Impact of Usability, Social Influence and Interoperability (Science Direct, 16 May)
5. Language Ideologies and Identities on Facebook and TikTok (Cambridge University Press, 17 May)

AI

1. Framework Interoperability: A New Hope for Global Digital Governance (Lawfare, 13 May)
2. When Manipulating AI Is a Crime (Lawfare, 15 May)
3. Propaganda by Meme: The impact of generative AI on extremist memes (CETaS, May)

1.2 World News 

1. Shrinking Democracy, Growing Violence - Internet Shutdowns in 2023 (Access Now, May)
2. Georgia: Resilience in action (EUvsDisinfo, 15 May)
3. A glorious future awaits (EuvsDisinfo, 16 May)
4. Hate Speech and Fake News in Conflict and Diversity Reporting in Nigeria (SSRN, 15 May)

Israel & Palestine

1. (In)Security in social media: exploring Israeli and Palestinian narratives (T&F, 15 May)