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✍️💬 #Climatechange #disinformation targeting the #GermanElections between denialism and delayism 🗳️⛈️

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WhatsApp is now a Very Large platform in the EU, and will face tougher regulation

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✍️💬 #Doppelganger actors continue to monetize via Meta ads @aiforensics.org @reset.tech @checkfirst.network estimated almost half a million dollars in revenue in 2 years despite sanctions! 💵

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Looking at ‘Bothsidesing’ When equal coverage leads to uneven results www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/bot...

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🚨Women -VS- Disinfo🚨 You really must listen to our interview with @netosessa.bsky.social of @disinfo.eu today We discuss her role, current research on Identity-based Disinformation, Illuminati Scammers and a firsthand account of why media literacy matters pod.fo/e/2abc6d

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I've got to say, the guy who accidentally became the Director of the FBI does 100% look like the guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI in a mid-2000s comedy about a guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI

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✍️💬 Less than a month after the launch of #DeepSeek, doubts arise about declared costs, #AI training methods, data privacy, and #disinformation 🐋

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My favorite since Bolkestein Vs. Bolkenstein

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It’s official: Elon Musk’s staffers have now illegally obtained classified information from the USAID office. Here’s a recap of what’s happening:

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Severance is so good

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veraAI partner @disinfo.eu / Ana Romero-Vicente (@anicanaca.bsky.social) authored a report entitled "Visual assessment of Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour in disinformation campaigns". Editor: @netosessa.bsky.social. We provide a summary and the full publication here. www.veraai.eu/posts/report...

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✍️💬 Somebody once told me: “Fascism is back, but it’s #technofascism, so let’s dance”

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The call for proposals for #Disinfo2025 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 15–16 October, is now open! Share your ideas, research, or insights on disinformation with a diverse community of experts – submit your proposal now to be part of our 2025 annual conference! 👇 www.disinfo.eu/conference

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Elon Musk vuole arruolare le pagine “bomberiste” italiane nella propaganda trumpiana? Ad annunciarlo è stata Welcome to Favelas, pagina consacrata al degrado che sostiene di aver incontrato gli emissari di Musk. Ma la notizia va presa con le pinze.

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A year ago we published this @motherjones.com cover. It was basically a preview of the Trump inauguration stage. Oligarchy is the deeper story behind the distractions, and everyone should have been covering it. But it's not too late. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Aaaand TikTok removed themselves from the section of the EU Code of Practice covering political ads because they "don't allow them". 🤪

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✍️💬 A few considerations on the (brief) #TikTok ban 🇺🇸 👮‍♀️ Forbidding an app does nothing for #nationaldefense 👷 Especially in lack of a #dataprotection law and sound #contentmoderation policies 🦸‍♂️ But what a success for #Trump to be the president who saved the clock app

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Alternative facts thriving

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According to WEF’s “Global Risks Report 2025”, top risks for this year are: 1. 🔫 Armed conflicts 2. 🌡️ Extreme weather events 3. ⚠️ Mis- and disinformation 4. 🪙 Geoconomic tensions 5. ➗ Social polarisation

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As @bsky.app grows, will it be able to address and counter #disinformation operations efficiently? 🤞🦋

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✍️💬 About #GBD (gender-based #disinformation) attacks against journalist #CeciliaSala, who was arrested in #Iran 🚺🇮🇹

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“Freedom of speech” for the architects and beneficiaries of the bullshit industrial complex means the freedom to spread bullshit, but does not extend to the freedom to call bullshit.

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✍️💬 La settimana inizia con una riflessione sui siti #proxy usati dalla #Russia per raggirare le #sanzioni #UE e continuare a diffondere #propaganda e #disinformazione

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This joke is a self own in so many ways, it is almost unbelievable. 1. He found the woke mind virus on localhost, which is his own computer 2. He doesn’t know how terminal commands work

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It’s such a relief to learn that Italian journalist #CeciliaSala has been freed after 20 days in an Iranian jail without charges ⛓️‍💥 Now let’s shield her from any wave of #gender based #disinformation that might come her way 💪

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✍️💬 Il mio buon proposito del 2025 è di scrivere di più in italiano. Inizio da una riflessione sullo stop di #Meta al #factchecking negli USA

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Remember: when faced with a choice, Meta always chooses the path that ensures maximum harm to the largest number of users. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

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Italian journalist #CeciliaSala was arrested in Tehran last week while on a journalistic visa and is being held in isolation in Evin prison — charges are still unknown. Talk about her! #FreeCecilia

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“AI-generated content can be used in dangerously aspirational ways, for example, to help #radicalize audiences by visualizing potential targets for destruction.”

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🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨 19thnews.org/2024/12/ai-s... We at @americansunlight.org are proud to share our latest work! We analyzed the prevalence of deepfake pornography targeting Members of Congress. We identified 30,000+ pieces of deepfake content depicting a total of 26 Members—25 women and one man.

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"More than two-thirds of 100 companies behind the AI tools most commonly used and recommended by journalists are insufficiently transparent about their ownership, finances and other critical data, according to a new report" reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/who-own...

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Did you spot our @koltai.bsky.social on @60minutes.bsky.social last night talking about her work monitoring the generation of AI pornographic deepfakes? You can catch up with the full episode here: www.cbs.com/shows/video/...

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👉 #factchecking focuses on facts not opinions, voiding the arbiters of truth argument imo ☝️ but because of that, it has limited success when beliefs come into play 🙌 easier said than done, we need to clarify boundaries between what’s objectively knowable and subjectively perceived

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: On 24 November 2024, Israel's minister of communications issued sanctions against Haaretz, the country's oldest newspaper. The sanctions block the media organization from accepting government funding or advertising. ddosecrets.com/article/stat...

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Check out @gijn.org ’s list of top investigative journalism #tools for 2024 💻 🔍 Also, if you’re looking for the ultimate “all in one place” tool, the @vera-ai.bsky.social InVID-WeVerify verification plugin is always a good idea! 👾👩‍💻

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Romanian presidential election: It's not all about TikTok. We've uncovered over 4k political ads on Meta's platforms. They were run from 25 facebook pages tied to a network of websites pushing unverified claims in favour of the far-right. Read more: checkfirst.network/research-not...

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The conservative women’s magazine Evie has released their new cover featuring Ballerina Farm. Evie has peddled health conspiracy theories & disinfo, patriarchal relationships, and anti-LGBTQ views under an aesthetic guise. It’s time to stop saying that tradwives aren’t political.

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#GBD gender-based disinformation exploits societal norms to harm #women 🚺 In countries like Pakistan, #deepfakes suggesting improper interactions with men can ruin women’s reputations and pose real safety threats ⚠️ Understanding context is crucial to fight #disinformation 🗺️

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Kash Patel has openly expressed his plans to “come after” journalists he doesn’t like. He is for retribution, not justice. This is from my book, #RoughBeast:

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Misinformation? Disinformation? What's the difference? A very simple and festive explainer. 🎅 Credit: 🎨 @felixuncia.bsky.social 🧠 @brentlee.bsky.social

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This Afghan journalist is the real #femininomenon! 🦸‍♀️ Check out her articles on the closure of women-only restaurants (theafghantimes.com/taliban-forc...) and extreme period poverty/harmful taboos (theafghantimes.com/afghanistan-...) in #Afghanistan 🇦🇫 Please share more of her articles with me!

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1/ With more users joining Bluesky, we know how important it is to identify which accounts are real. Users deserve confidence that the accounts they interact with are authentic. Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵

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Our new response-impact framework combines IO countermeasures, focusing on: 🔎 Exposure 👥 Community engagement 🕸️ Infrastructure 💰 Sanctions & legal responses And their cost-effectiveness, including: ❗️Situational awareness 🩹 Impact on threat actors 💥 New responses ✋ Deterrence

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Webinar alert: on 12 Dec 2024 @disinfo.eu is hosting an online event in which with @netosessa.bsky.social and Raquel Miguel Serrano will present some of the findings of an EEAS / @eudiplomacy.bsky.social report on identity-based #disinformation and #FIMI. Join us then! www.veraai.eu/posts/eudl-w...

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Thanks for participating and ICYMI find the recording on the @disinfo.eu website and YT. Spoiler alert! 🚨🇹🇼 The #Taiwan power model for #FIMI resilience is: 🎯 [P]urpose-driven 🌳 [O]rganic ☂️ [W]hole-of-society ⏰ [E]volving 🔄 [R]emit-bound

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🇷🇴 Preliminary #EDMO #BROD Report on Romanian Presidential #elections shows that candidates exploited #TikTok algorithms to bypass mainstream media and engage disenfranchised voters. TikTok’s quasi-ban on political #ads doesn’t stop campaigns but only obscures funding. WE 👏 NEED 👏 REGULATION

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2.5 years into the #doppelganger operation, one of the most effective ways for #media outlets to defend against #impersonation by #disinformation networks that register lookalike domain names is through domain name dispute resolutions🕵️‍♀️🗞️ Here’s the ultimate @disinfo.eu step-by-step guide:

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