The use of artificial intelligence in counter-disinformation: a world wide (web) mapping by Federico Pilati, Federico Pilati, Federico Pilati, Tommaso Venturini

“…Thus, there is a growing recognition of the need for benchmarking the various ongoing efforts to ensure greater efficacy and coordination in the use of AI and assure that this does not lead to forms of algorithmic censorship. Our goal is to provide a mapping of the projects that use AI to counter disinformation by means of their hyperlink network analysis to shed light on their aims, approaches, and challenges.…”
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Relativistic Einstein rings of Reissner–Nordström black holes nonminimally coupled to electrodynamics by Rodrigo Maier

“…In this case we show that there is an overlap domain so that the angular position and the corresponding coupling parameter do not allow one to differ extremal cases from complementary configurations which satisfy the cosmic censorship hypothesis.…”
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Aleksandr Bogdanov’s Sociology of the Arts by Biggart John

“…It will enable culturologists and other scholars to include Bogdanov in the history of the sociology of the arts, an exercise that has hitherto been impeded by Soviet censorship of his works, under-tuition of the Russian language, and a scarcity of relevant translations.…”
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Oscillation Between Resist and to Not? Users’ Folk Theories and Resistance to Algorithmic Curation on Douyin by Hui Lin

“…This study found that this paradox of resistance not only reflects users’ efforts to reconcile sociocultural needs with digital irritations caused by algorithmic mismatches but also arises from a sense of digital resignation in response to the platform’s strict regulations and censorship. Thus, this article argues that although people espouse folk theories as resources to resist algorithmic curation in different sociocultural contexts, most of their resistance behaviors remain constrained within the dominant use of technological affordances, which largely functions as a process of continuous negotiation rather than a subversive force capable of disrupting the ideological power relations embedded in algorithm-driven platforms.…”
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Speranza i Mickiewicz by Katarzyna Gmerek

“…A hypothesis is suggested that she used a translation from Pushkin, who published Mickiewicz’s poems in Russia without credits to the Polish author because of censorship. The present author searched for the material at the National Library o f Ireland and at the Trinity College Library, Dublin. …”
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Antivaccine, denialist, and conspiracy theorist content on Facebook. An analysis of the No to the New World Order page by Julio C. Aguila Sanchez, Carmen Castillo Rocha, Ángel R. Vargas Valencia

“…Many posts criticised government measures, while others alleged censorship and media manipulation of unofficial covid-19 information. …”
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L’excès dans la fiction de Wilkie Collins by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…This policy of self-censorship, and excessive somatization, gives a symptomatic function to excess as a revelator of social pathologies (unfair patriarchal laws) and family disorders — repressive and unhealthy marital situations and all forms of abuse inflicted on wives. …”
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A New Website Fingerprinting Method for Tor Hidden Service by Zihang Hui, Jiangtao Zhai, Shengxian Wang, Weijie Ji

“…Although anonymous communication systems protect user privacy, they also facilitate evasion of network censorship. Currently, evaders use anonymous hidden services to carry out various illegal activities, which pose a serious threat to network management. …”
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Intercultural and Intertextual Crossings in Sarah Howe’s Loop of Jade (2015) by Yasna Bozhkova

“…It also explores the political dimensions of Howe’s use of intertextuality, denouncing China’s history of repression and censorship, as well as the violence against women and the anxiety of miscegenation in traditional culture. …”
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USAD: An Intelligent System for Slang and Abusive Text Detection in PERSO-Arabic-Scripted Urdu by Nauman Ul Haq, Mohib Ullah, Rafiullah Khan, Arshad Ahmad, Ahmad Almogren, Bashir Hayat, Bushra Shafi

“…Even though social media companies have censorship polices for slang, abusive, vulgar, and offensive language, due to limited resources and research in the automatic detection of abusive language mechanisms other than English, this condemnable act is still practiced. …”
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Contrafaction in Lithuanian book publishing during the first half of the XIX century by Aušra Navickienė

“…They appeared under conditions and factors that demonstrate opposition to the censorship rules. This opposition served as a model that influenced the behavior of book workers after 1864 and was used from the beginning of the ban on Lithuanian press. …”
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The activity of Count Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont in the Russian Empire, with a focus on his St. Petersburg salon by Anežka Kotoučová

“…The paper examines how these levels interacted, while pointing out that Ficquelmont made extensive use of his privileges as an influential diplomat and one who was loved at the court to help guests in his salon circumvent some Russian obstructions, including the severe censorship of that time. Ficquelmont’s most famous guest was the poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, who gained inspiration from the Austrian Embassy building for one of his famous works. …”
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'Sanctifying Sex': Exploring 'Indecent' Sexual Imagery in Pentecostal Liturgical Practices by Sarojini Nadar, Johnathan Jodamus

“…What if, like Foucault suggests, a deeper engagement with the subject matter would show, not sexual censorship, but rather a re-channeling of sexuality? …”
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Mettre l’intime en bande dessinée. Un dialogue avec Léna Merhej et Noémie Honein by Michela De Giacometti, Laura Odasso

“…Originally born as a publishing platform to support works from this first group of artists, the magazine soon transformed into a collective and broadened its horizons to include comics made by artists from the Arab world and beyond. To avoid censorship, Samandal published in France, in 2016, the issue entitled Ça restera entre nous (It will remain between us), an unvarnished work about sexuality which includes the illustrated boards of 27 international artists in four different languages (Arabic, French, English and Italian). …”
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Genesis of the term "savilaida": from collections of avant-garde poetry till Lithuanian neologism by Egidijus Jaseliūnas

“…A part of press publishers, multipliers, and distributors contributed to the partisan press or came in contact with it in 1944-1953; therefore, the entire press circumventing the Soviet censorship and published without the knowledge of the authorities was generally referred to as the "underground press". …”
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The book policy in a democratic society: the case of Estonia by Mare Lott, Aile Möldre

“…In the Republic of Estonia in 1918-1940, a special law on the press (1923) introduced post-publication censorship, aimed at the protection of morality. Several books were banned and confiscated on the basis of this law. …”
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Gardé·es à vue. Domination(s) et reconfigurations des rapports entre manifestant·es et policier·es pendant le hirak (2019-2021) by Lina Benchekor

“…But some people have more capacity for action and reaction, and the resources to resist censorship and pressure from the forces of law and order. …”
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Lithuanian exile press during five decades of soviet ban by Silvija Vėlavičienė

“…The Lithuanian exile press underwent a difficult journey to free itself from censorship and suppression. The restrictions and bans on the exile press were lifted only in July 1989, marking the end of a press ban that lasted nearly five decades. …”
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Power of emperor in Russian legal discourse of second half of 19th– early 20th centuries: justification and options for interpretation by I. G. Adoneva, Yu. V. Druzhinina

“…Without disputing the content of the «Fundamental State Laws» and guided by censorship considerations, the professors tried to convey to the student university audience the idea that the bureaucratic apparatus formed in the empire is a natural limiter of the imperial power; the legal framework is an obstacle to despotism, and the judiciary is in fact independent. …”
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