Docket+ 27 May
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Highlights
We are excited to announce the launch of the Information Environment Project!https://t.co/RUZsCClm4G
— IOpartnership (@IOpartnership) May 22, 2024
1/ How can online platforms ensure they don't contribute to political violence (again)? @kreissdaniel, @justinhendrix & I convened an expert working group to discuss platform's roles in election-related violence and what they CAN do. Read full report 👇 https://t.co/nHAhNSwsM5 pic.twitter.com/jDqgIT1aU5
— Yael Eisenstat (@YaelEisenstat) May 22, 2024
Today @brennancenter, @TheElectionsGrp and @iftf
— larry norden (@LarryNorden) May 8, 2024
released a multimedia guide for election officials to identify, prepare for and respond to AI threats. Big takeaway: EOs already have the know-how & tools to respond. Click the link and see for yourself! /1 https://t.co/bAQ38Lsmx7
- Pro-Kremlin content targets South African social media users, pushing narratives around Ukrainian neo-Nazism (Centre for Information Resilience, 23 May)
- The Doppelganger Case: Assessment of Platform Regulation on the EU Disinformation Environment (NATO StratCom CoE, 20 May)
- How Rest of World Tracks AI Use in 2024 Elections Around the Globe (GIJN, 22 May)
- 2024 Social Media Safety Index (GLAAD, May)
- Major Platforms Fail LGBTQ Safety Tests, Says New GLAAD Report (Tech Policy Press, 21 May)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- Tech Platforms Must Do More to Avoid Contributing to Potential Political Violence (Tech Policy Press, 22 May)
- Internet governance interrupted (DFRLab, 17 May)
- What Trust & Safety leaders are thinking about, and what we must not forget (Everything in Moderation, 21 May)
- When Online Content Disappears: 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later (Pew, 17 May)
- AMMeBa: A Large-Scale Survey and Dataset of Media-Based Misinformation In-The-Wild (ArXiv, 21 May)
- What we know and don’t know about deepfakes: An investigation into the state of the research and regulatory landscape (SAGE, 22 May)
AI
- How news coverage, often uncritical, helps build up the AI hype (Reuters Institute, 20 May)
- OpenAI No Longer Takes Safety Seriously (Lawfare, 22 May)
- On AI and Elections, Feds Should Stick to Supporting Local Election Officials Instead of Restricting Political Speech (RStreet, 22 May)
Availability and spread of information
- Identifying and characterizing superspreaders of low-credibility content on Twitter (PlosONe, 22 May)
1.2 World News
- Online conspiracies proliferate following the attack on Slovakian PM Robert Fico (DFRLab, 22 May)
- Consumer lying in online reviews: recent evidence (ArXiv, 21 May)
- A comparative analysis of strategic narratives and persuasive language techniques within Iranian and US news media: The study of the joint comprehensive plan of action (SAGE, 21 May)
- Media Use, Feelings of Being Devalued, and Democratically Corrosive Sentiment in the US (SAGE, 22 May)
- Human Vulnerability to Misinformation is Ubiquitous and Not Tied to Specific Media nor Platforms (OSF, 20 May)