Docket + 6 May

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Highlights

1. This real estate blogger does not exist: Subscription-oriented blogging platforms such as Substack are not immune to spam (Conspirator Norteño, 3 May)
2. Content Moderation in a historic election year: Key lessons for industry (Oversight Board)

EVENT: FIMI in the elections - Can the past predict the future? (EU Disinfo Lab, 7 May)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Advancing Trust & Safety in the Majority World (Tech Policy press, 1 May)
2. Generative AI is already helping fact-checkers. But it’s proving less useful in small languages and outside the West (Reuters Institute, 29 April)
3. Credible, Unreliable or Leaked?: Evidence Verification for Enhanced Automated Fact-checking (ArXiv, 29 April)
4. "I'm in the Bluesky Tonight": Insights from a Year Worth of Social Data (ArXiv, 29 April)
5. Americans’ Views of Technology Companies (Pew, 29 April)

1.2 World News 

Kate Starbird (@katestarbird.bsky.social)

Newsbusters just ran an article, based on public records requests, cherrypicking messages where journalists contacted our team and framing those as part of the “censorship industrial complex.” So, now “censorship” equates to... checks note... talking to the media? It’s so tediously stupid.

Bluesky Social

1. Why the U.S. Intelligence Community Needs an OSINT Agency (Lawfare, 1 May)
2. Elon Musk’s Malign Influence in Brazil (Tech Policy Press, 29 April)
3. Analyzing Egyptian and Qatari media coverage of Menendez bribery allegations (DFRLab, 29 April)
4. Piercing the Veil of Censorship in China as a Visual Investigator (GIJN, 30 April)
5. Unraveling the Italian and English Telegram Conspiracy Spheres through Message Forwarding (ArXiv, 29 April)
6. Speaking with the State’s Voice: The Decade-Long Growth of Government-Authored News Media in China under Xi Jinping (SSRN, 2 May)
7. Cyber Capabilities in the Indo-Pacific: Shared Ambitions, Different Means? (RUSI, 3 May)

Russia & Ukraine

1. Russian-language Telegram channels foment tensions in Georgia (DFRLab, 1 May)
2. Turning the war into a crusade (EUvsDisinfo, 2 May)
3. Building a false façade (EUvsDisinfo, 2 May)