This is a preliminary attempt to synthesize the two for those working in community governance, content moderation, or information integrity spaces... more to come!!

I have been thinking recently about the coalescing field of disinfo studies and the more commons-based approaches to online community governance, and where these two perspectives conflict when it comes to addressing online information manipulation and related threats...

7/ And the study has harmed CMV, an important public sphere for people to engage in debate, learn new things, have their assumptions challenged, and maybe even their minds changed. Are people going to trust that they aren’t engaging with bots? And if they don’t, can the community serve its mission?

Traditional counter-disinformation strategies in this space, however, tend to miss these nuanced dynamics.

Ungated version here: zarine.net/Miyashita_et...

We also reflect on how these operations function as "actants" that actively shape the wider peacekeeping ecosystem -- concern over their impact has shaped peacekeeping self-image, resourcing and coalition-building.

Using a combination of interviews and analyses of public social media trace data (RIP CrowdTangle), we argue that these campaigns are not just top-down, state-directed phenomena, but involve complex interactions between state actors, influencers, and everyday people (they're participatory).