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AI slop getting in the way of accurate information about ecology, and other misinformation vs conservation concerns at @linneansociety.bsky.social London.

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WHY DOES FACEBOOK STILL NOT HAVE A FRIGGIN' OPTION IN THE "REPORT PAGE" PANEL TO SIMPLY REPORT A PAGE AS HAVING BEEN H@CKED?!!!

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🧐 Starmer deepfake ads now? www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_j...

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THU JUN/19: 🇬🇧🗞🔥🧑‍🏫 Approaching the first anniversary of the misinfo-amplified Southport-spinoff UK riots, I'll be at the Media Innovation Studio's report launch webinar to present on my investigations of the misinfo spread, and on how such info disorder is facilitated and incentivised by tech design.

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Romeostasis: maintenance of a stable courtship environment in youth communities despite familial conflicts.

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The scam allegedly involves immigration advisers coaching foreign workers to overstate their levels of education and experience to secure visas to come to the UK

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Explore our new research platform, Last Haven — a gamified experience where you make tough choices between protecting endangered species' habitats and advancing human needs. 👉 last-haven.net

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Today, we're proud to launch RADAR (Regulatory Assessment for Digital Service Act Risks), an open framework that introduces standardised tags for Digital Service Act (DSA) infringements: radar.checkfirst.network/

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Liverpool police were quick to release demographic information of the driver who rammed his car into a crowd last month. This move was an attempt at quelling misinformation – but was it enough? @lageneralista.ca ‬ weighed in for Emissary: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

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Seeing people can only understand society through pop culture references:

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Easy way to solve the farm IHT issue vis-a-vis the "but this farm has been in Bob's family for generations" line used by populist opponents: the new tax rules apply only to farming assets purchased by the deceased, while farming assets themselves inherited by the deceased retain tax relief.

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Hard to reach any other conclusion from this video than that police in LA deliberately shot with a rubber bullet at an Australian journalist who was clearly reporting on events.

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Moore was one of the individuals we were able to identify as associates of the influence operation, despite the efforts to cover its tracks, like hiring a Vietnamese "phone farm" to run part of it.

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Johnnie Moore, the head of the lethal GHF was also involved in a sketchy multi-million dollar anti-immigrant and anti-muslim influence campaign running throughout 2024. Check this AFP piece by @AnujChopra based on research by myself & @SohanDsouza www.france24.com/en/live-news...

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Here we go …

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How Musk Sold MAGA on HCQ — and Opened the COVID-19 Disinformation Floodgates The spread of viral disinformation via social media would prove a vital tool for the right-wing assault on public health throughout the pandemic. whowhatwhy.org/culture/jour...

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Kremlin-backed Matryoshka bots and Prigozhin-linked site target Moldova’s Maia Sandu in major disinfo smear campaign The campaign, which spread graffiti of Sandu's "execution" and said she "facilitated human trafficking," was flagged by @antibot4navalny.bsky.social.

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Quantitative easing, evangelicalism-Maoism cross-pollination, and the grudging reindustrialization con. (The Origins of Trumpism and Paths to an Alternative Future, at @raioxford.bsky.social)

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Are people on this "cuck chair" meme being deliberately obtuse? The chair doesn't "face the bed". This is the most space-efficient way to place a chair in a room with a large bed while still enabling the user to, you know, get into and sit in it.

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I've never read The Turner Diaries, but I know people who have. It is, by all accounts, a terribly written, dumb book. You think that the intellectual core of political movements are going to be these convincing, cult leader figures. But they're just people who tell you what you want to hear.

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〝The CPS used this act of violence on Coskun to justify their prosecution of him, arguing that the defendant's actions created "a real threat to public order" evidenced by him being attacked by a weapon wielding maniac. A classic case of victim blaming.〞

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Russian Foundation, Aimed at Helping ‘Compatriots’ Abroad, Supports Spies, Criminals, & Propagandists Pravfond's internal emails obtained by journalists show how the Russian Foundation collaborated with spies, funded propaganda efforts, and built points of influence. www.occrp.org/en/project/d...

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Platform enshittification, brazen media institution capture, and local media flattening, at @mediareformuk.bsky.social's Media Democracy Festival 2025 in London.

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The platforms that have user reward programmes incentivizing creation of popular content (including bullshit, bait, and slop) … do they have any incentivizing accurate user reporting of spam, scams, fakes, misinformation, impersonations, ad violations, and other misconduct? If not, says a lot.

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'If we are to live under arbitrarily changed laws in a discriminatory society, we would rather do it in the Gulf region for the double of what we earn now' @UKLabour says👋 to more tax revenue www.ft.com/content/6eed...

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Neurons commiting mass suicide from having to participate in the reading of this.

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Parallels between South African and American autocratic drift, and the urgency of standing up to institutionalized disinformation, especially around science (Michael Faraday Prize Lecture by 2024 winner Professor Salim Abdool Karim at the @royalsociety.org)

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FFS, are these judges trying to get fascists elected? www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...

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Hamit Coskun will stand trial tomorrow at Westminster Magistrates' Court for protesting outside the Turkish Consulate, during which he burnt a Quran. A prosecution in this case could edge the UK dangerously close to a prohibition on blasphemy. www.secularism.org.uk/news/2025/05...

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📱 When online outrage turns into real-world unrest... 🔥 Join us for a gripping session with Kamila Koronska (‪ @kamilakoronska.bsky.social) on how disinformation, hate speech and political rage helped spark the 2024 UK riots. 🗓️ 28 May, 14:30 CEST 🔗 Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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"🎵 Everyone's a little bit fascist … sometimes. 🎵 🎵 Doesn't mean we go around committing … war crimes. 🎵"

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Damn, can't Merseyside Police catch a break? www.reuters.com/fact-check/l...

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NYT coverage of cancellations of federally funded research on misinformation www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...

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Something fishy about this sob story (1) The photos are stock shots taken in 2012 and 2014, available from Shutterstock and Alamy—links below. (2) There’s no trace of bankers Al and Alexandra Moy anywhere other than the Telegraph 🤔 www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/... www.alamy.com/stock-photo-...

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"It rubs the tensor function on its model, or it gets the datahose again."

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🚨Next week's talk at ARC We cordially invite you to join the talk by Dr. Orestis Kopsacheilis, Technical University of Munich. 📅 27 May 11:00 (Local Time Germany) @mpib-berlin.bsky.social or online See the link for details👇 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/events/41892...

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Now the sketchy advertisers on YouTube can use genAI models too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3geK...

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Mass media forced into doing "algospeak" too. #media #algospeak

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Threats from AI in human cognitive vulnerability exploitation and research process corruption. #KingsFestivalOfAI #London #AI #regulation #research

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❓👀 What’s coming up at #Disinfo2025? Our four tracks will dive into: 🌍 regional trends 🛡️ community resilience & responses ⚖️ platform accountability 🔎 deep dives & frontline stories Discover more 👇 www.disinfo.eu/disinfo2025-... ⏰🐦 Early bird tickets are flying – grab yours by 27 May!

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Fully and single-category recyclable paper hot-drink cup with integrated fold-shut/-open lid and drinking spout+vent.

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"What I want to do is this. I just want to find, uh, 769,590 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the country."

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BCS Chartered Institute for IT event in London on defeating disinformation. Especially interesting talks on AI-accelerated generation and deployment of disinfo; and the Ukrainian experience of and proposed information-sharing countermeasures to Russian cyber-attacks. #disinfo #genAI #Ukraine #tech

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On the inside.

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