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Reality denial is the last stage of disordered discourse, see who falls in line with this.

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Wired gained 62,500 new subscribers in the United States during the first two weeks of February alone. Last year it reported a total of 19.5 million subscribers, either digital or for the monthly printed magazine, or both. Its eight global editions reach 57 million total.

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Will Elon Musk Break with Community Notes? His own fact-checking system has led to some awkward moments for the X owner–cum-bureaucrat, by Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

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From Marty Baron to Robber Baron: Jeff Bezos is heel-turning the Washington Post opinion section into the realm of the far right, by Andrew Rosenthal. www.cjr.org/analysis/jef...

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Our new paper, "Bluesky: Network Topology, Polarization, and Algorithmic Curation," is out! Together with @abovet.bsky.social, we analyzed data from 5 million Bluesky users from Feb 2023 to May 2024. Check it out: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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⚠️💤 Lás páginas durmientes son webs que se activan en momentos estratégicos para difundir desinformación. 🇷🇺 Alemania identificó más de 100 creadas por Rusia de cara a las elecciones. www.newtral.es/paginas-durm...

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Ocalan asks for the PKK to be dissolved and disarmed, in move that could reshape the entire region. Another seismic shift we never expected to see in our lifetimes. #Turkey #PKK www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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This viral New York Post video, which falsely claims "USAID paid Time magazine $4m to name Zelensky person of the year", is fake and was never published by the New York Post. It's similar in style to videos created by a well-known Russian disinformation operation that imitiates major news outlets.

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For years, people have been wondering when we would reach the point where fake, AI-generated content would become good enough to cause mass confusion in relation to major and breaking news events. We now seem to be reaching that point, particularly with AI-generated audio and images.

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🐬 Bluesky sigue desarrollando muy buenas hechuras para el periodismo... pero no sólo eso. Es el lugar donde seguir la conversación de una gran parte de los críticos de la administración Trump/Musk, sean estos políticos, científicos o ciudadanos. Y tiene listas y formas de visualizarlas.

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Scott Langmack works at a property company that uses AI to help real estate investors predict future property prices Its mission? "To aggregate the hardest to find data.” He now has unrestricted access to US federal housing data thanks to #ElonMusk www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

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Alarming insights from our Hub GADMO.eu & its partner @correctiv.org: TikTok's problematic handling of reported #disinformation ahead of the German #election "could be illegal and violate EU law". 👉 Read the latest GADMO newsletter w/ more insights: edmo.eu/edmo-news/fa...

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Thread: A viral clip of Donald Trump Jr saying on his Triggered podcast that "the US should have been sending weapons to Russia" instead of Ukraine is AI-generated and fake. Worryingly, the fake AI audio sounds near identical to Don Jr's real voice. Let's see how we can verify that it's fake.

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THREAD: Audio purporting to show Donald Trump Jr saying the US should have sent Russia weapons has gone viral, with an official DNC account sharing it. Media forensics expert Hany Farid analyzed it with two models and told me each "classifies the voices with high confidence as AI-generated." (1/5)

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this one hurts 💔 www.platformer.news/google-data-...

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Mark Zuckerberg wants to copy Elon Musk’s flawed Community Notes system. Yet, our research found that 74% of accurate Community Notes debunking misleading claims about the US election on X weren’t shown to users. Our research featured on John Oliver's @lastweektonight.com 👇

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📱 The Ukraine-Russia conflict isn’t just on the battlefield—it’s online too. 3 years in, disinformation remains a powerful weapon. Iryna Adam & @rosadchuk.bsky.social's latest explores the persistent “biolabs” narrative, building on our #NarrativeWarfare research. dfrlab.org/2025/02/24/u...

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Just incredible reporting from @makenakelly.bsky.social once again on #DOGE, getting incredible detail on just what they are up to. This time? Modifying a piece of software that automates the mass firing of federal workers www.wired.com/story/doge-a...

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“Our repeated tests of Meta’s enforcement of its policies in response to user reports indicate that the company fails to act on the majority of violative content reported to them,” Our Head of Research Callum Hood on our new report in @washingtonpost.com 👇 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Often left out of the AI-in-the-news conversations: Environmental impact. Brilliant piece from @juliabbarnett.bsky.social. "The key factor is that (newsroom use of AI) shouldn’t be frivolous; they need to be thoughtful and show real utility."

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EDMO stands with the Serbian Center for Research, Transparency & Accountability, operating the fact-checking organisation Istinomer, EFCSN member. Their premises were raided by the police. This is unacceptable and an attack on freedom of expression & free press. EFCSN statement: loom.ly/52my80A

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Qué hemos aprendido en #Iberifier sobre la desinformación durante la catástrofe de la DANA en Valencia. Este jueves, en YouTube. ➡️ www.youtube.com/live/2focfEN...

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Here’s an entertaining explainer on content moderation -what it actually is, why conservative “censorship” complaints were always self-serving propaganda, & why Meta actually backed away. Years of writing, research & court proceedings synthesized into shareable satire. youtu.be/nf7XHR3EVHo?...

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What role did #disinformation play in yesterday's German #election? How can #Romania, #Poland & the #EU at large prepare for theirs? 👉 Join our event: loom.ly/ta4stzM @brodhub.bsky.social @cedmohub.bsky.social @demagog.org.pl @tommasocanetta.bsky.social @elmerch.bsky.social @goripaula.bsky.social

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New from me: Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed: www.propublica.org/article/face...

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Commission presents new best-practice election toolkit on the Digital Services Act » digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...

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Trump names conservative podcaster Dan Bongino as FBI deputy director www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Grok blocked results saying Musk and Trump “spread misinformation” - https://www.theverge.com/news/618109/grok-blocked-elon-musk-trump-misinformation

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Circula nas redes e é exibida em noticiários que não fazem verificação, mas não é a 'nova capa da Time'. É de Maio de 2017: time.com/magazine/us/... x.com/TIME/status/... #factcheck #odestinodainformação #guerrafriaaosfactos

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I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again). "The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties. #BTW25 #GermanElection

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Thread - I've been thinking a lot about Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion lately, especially in the context of Musk’s role in dismantling the federal workforce through DOGE. It’s a perfect example of what Lippmann warned about over a century ago.

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Black shirts, no insignia, zip ties. Forcibly removing some lady from a political meeting. Seemingly with local law enforcement passive.

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This seems incredibly legal and could in no way backfire in unpredictable and damaging ways.

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Can AI-driven automation truly enhance fact-checking efficiency and reach, or do newsroom complexities hinder its full potential? Using ethnographic methods, @irenelarraz.bsky.social, and I explore this question in our latest study, published in «Medijske Studije». ➡️ hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/474157

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Dozens of inauthentic X accounts are posting coordinated, AI-generated content critical of CDU leader Friedrich Merz ahead of the German election, but failing to get any traction. Notably, they all misspell his name "Mertz", and seem to be very keen for Germany to restore energy ties with Russia.

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People are turning away from the news. Here’s why it may be happening. Data shows a ten-year trend towards disengagement from online news, with interest in news falling and news avoidance rising reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/people-...

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"Responsibility for the large-scale invasion of February 2022 lies entirely on the shoulders of Russia", writes EDMO #FactChecking Coordinator @tommasocanetta.bsky.social. 👉 Read his facts-based analysis of Donald Trump's recent statements about #Ukraine: loom.ly/k4kHVdc

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In Germany, social media algorithms are pumping out huge amounts of far-right, pro-AfD content www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/in-g...

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This is how Steve Bannon ended his CPAC speech.

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Your Android phone could have stalkerware — here’s how to remove it: techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/r... by @zackwhittaker.bsky.social

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Elon Musk vuole «correggere» Community Notes per evitare che smentiscano lui e Donald Trump www.open.online/2025/02/20/e...

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X user Dom Lucre, who has promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory, is at today's White House Black History Month event. He was once banned from X for posting what Elon Musk — who later reinstated his account — described as "child exploitation pictures." Offensive language warning.

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As vezes dou comigo a pensar "agora acordo e nada disto é verdade ou está a acontecer" www.cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/im-s...

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This is a perfect encapsulation of something I keep saying: adapting content moderation interventions based on what is politically expedient is naive and reckless. As soon as an intervention is powerful enough to upset a political actor, that actor will attack it as biased.

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Elon Musk says he's going to "fix" X's community notes system because he disagrees with a note on President Trump's claim that Zelensky has a 4% approval rating in Ukraine. Musk also claims community notes are "being gamed by governments & legacy media", but provides no evidence for that claim.

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Remember a fake video in October that showed a fake poll worker destroying pro-Trump election ballots in Pennsylvania? There's now a copycat fake video with the same script about the German election, showing a fake poll worker destroying election ballots for the AfD in Hamburg.

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This Sunday, 59 million eligible #voters are asked to elect the new parliament of the #EU's largest member state. Our hub GADMO.eu has been #debunking numerous attempts to systematically manipulate voters w/ misleading, decontextualised, and false content. 👉 This week's findings: loom.ly/IsAxz_A

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