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📢📢This February, we will organise a #DigitalSafety and #DigitalResilience Workshop to empower civil society organisations with essential knowledge & tools to enhance digital privacy and security.

For more details and to express interest, please visit https://t.co/T4zR6FYYUT

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The authors conclude with recommendations for future interventions that recognise and are more responsive to the affective dimensions of misinformation. #misinformation #disinformation #socialresearch

Full paper here: https://t.co/og2RmzeO7c

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📢📢In "Emotional Contagion: Theorising the Role of Affect in COVID-19 Information Disorder", @oldpinkdog & @iamgondogol explore affect's role by analysing the emotional aspects of info processing for COVID vaccine-related misinfo. #COVID19

Read more: https://t.co/og2RmzeO7c

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These negative emotional responses tend to override rational cognitive processes & increase individual & societal vulnerability to false or misleading content, especially in times of stress or crisis. #psychology #publichealth #vaccines

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Most importantly, their work discusses users’ experiences of digital financial fraud in the context of increasingly complex ways used to defraud users, and challenges users face with redressal systems.

Read the report here: https://t.co/f8ihGdFA1Q

#OnlineFrauds #DigitalHarms

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Research update!

In this report, @iamgondogol, @chiara_furtado, Garima Agrawal, Nishkala Sekhar, Puthiya Purayil Sneha, and @VipKharbanda unpack experiences of marginalised users navigating the digitalisation of finance - https://t.co/Hj1LjKlus6

#Finance #FinTech #OnlineScams

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They highlight gaps in access and accessibility for marginalised users, users’ experiences with exclusions, inadequate platform design, opacity, and slow redressal processes when using digital financial services and accessing social protection.

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Follow @cis_india for reading these papers soon!

#competition #antitrust #platform #labour #algorithms #digitaleconomy #CCI #monopolies #oligopolies #collusion #cartel

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Research update!

@NeatLefty and @bebaak_suri recently presented findings from two upcoming papers on antitrust law and the platform economy - at the 10th National Conference on Economics of Competition Law, hosted by @CCI_India.

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The rapid use of platform technologies has uncovered many unique concerns for antitrust authorities across the world. With their focus on platform labour and algorithmic pricing, these papers provide important insights for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.

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Join us on 26 Feb for an interactive roundtable at #Rightscon2025(@rightscon) where @oldpinkdog, @iamgondogol, & @HeatherLeson will challenge the understanding of information disorders through the lens of its emotional underpinnings, and foster a deeper understanding of the issue

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Join us on 25 February at #Rightscon2025 where @ShwetaMohandas, P.P. Sneha, & @NeatLefty will host a discussion on the ethical concerns surrounding the use of AI systems in #GlobalSouth healthcare landscapes to identify potential patient-centered solutions. Register: @rightscon

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This discussion elaborates on findings from our recent report examining how AI systems are developed and deployed to achieve healthcare outcomes, and how AI audits are perceived and implemented by key stakeholders. For more details, read the report here: https://t.co/xlk2u4Daq5

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Tune in today at 9:30PM IST for @iamgondogol's breakdown of AI auditing in Indian Healthcare, data supply chains, and AI governance at @PartnershipAI's #PartnerRoundtable event. Register to join the discussion here: https://t.co/I6J6iz1c8V