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Docket+ 6 November

Docket+ is a weekly roundup of the latest influence operations-related academic research, events and job opportunities.
Docket+ 6 November
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Highlights

  1. Complexity of the Online Distrust Ecosystem and its Evolution (ArXiv, 30 October)
  2. Accounts on Facebook, TikTok spread ISIS call for violence against Jewish targets (DFRLab, 2 November)
  3. The misinformation recognition and response model: an emerging theoretical framework for investigating antecedents to and consequences of misinformation recognition  (Oxford Academic, 24 October)
LISTEN: Information Animals Fighting Information Wars (Tech Freedom, 1 November)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

  1. Homogeneity and Concentration in the Browser (DFRLab, 30 October)
  2. Mechanisms of Mistrust: A Bayesian Account of Misinformation Learning (OSF, 31 October)
  3. Platform-controlled social media APIs threaten open science (Nature, 2 November)
  4. Weaponising #Fakenews on Twitter: Generating Flak or Critiquing the Status Quo in the Trump Era? (T&F, 2 November)

Availability and spread of information

  1. Complexity of the Online Distrust Ecosystem and its Evolution (ArXiv, 30 October)

1.2 World News 

  1. Others (dis-)endorse this so it must (not) be true: High relative endorsement increases perceived misinformation veracity but not correction effectiveness (Wiley, 2 November)
  2. Lost in Translation -- Multilingual Misinformation and its Evolution (ArXiv, 27 October)
  3. The New Zealand intelligence community and effects operations: the covert action dilemma (T&F, 3 November)

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