Docket+ 9 January
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Good morning! In the first edition of D+ for the new year -
* Curation of relevant academia and research published over the holidays
* Russian propaganda in Ukraine
* Analysis of the role of disinformation and influence in elections
* Analysis of countermeasures, and
* Extremists using social media present challenges for policymakers
* Curation of relevant academia and research published over the holidays
* Russian propaganda in Ukraine
* Analysis of the role of disinformation and influence in elections
* Analysis of countermeasures, and
* Extremists using social media present challenges for policymakers
Highlights
- 2022 Year in Review: Our Research & Impact (CSMaP, 19 December)
- 2022 at the DFRLab: a year in review (DFRLab, 22 December)
- 2022: The year of generative AI (Trusted Future, 15 December)
- Governments must strengthen the public sector to meet the challenges ahead (ASPI, 6 January)
- Too little, too late: By the time harmful content posted to Facebook during the Capitol riot period came down, millions had already engaged (Cybersecurity for Democracy, January)
- The Ongoing Insurrection: How Trump Continues to Weaponize Social Media Post Jan. 6th (Accountable Tech, December)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- A thousand followers and none: The ongoing evolution of a fake Twitter account creation and sales operation (Conspirator Norteño, 22 December)
- Can crowdsourcing rescue the social marketplace of ideas? (ArXiv, 19 December)
- Digital identity as platform-mediated surveillance (SAGE, 3 January)
- Suit accusing YouTube of tracking children is back on after appeal (Ars Technica, 29 December)
- Porn, Piracy, Fraud: What Lurks Inside Google’s Black Box Ad Empire (ProPublica, 21 December)
- Shadowbanning is real: Here’s how you end up silenced by social media (Washington Post, 27 December)
- NCSC Threat Report 22nd December 2022 (NCSC, 22 December)
- ChatGPT bot caught spreading misinformation on maritime law. Here’s how (TradeWinds, 2 January)
- Beyond ‘minimizing harms’: Algorithmic bias is still a huge problem — but where do those problems start? (Untangled, 1 January)
- Key facts about Rumble (Pew, 21 December)
- Trends in AI from Red and Blue Team Perspectives: Synthetic Data in a Data-Driven Society vs Sentiment Analysis (NATO StratcomCoE, 21 December)