Online workshop by Nicola Bruno this Saturday, Nov. 25:
"How to track #disinformation networks" which introduces the basics of networked disinformation and manipulation campaigns.
Free of charge, in English, lasting 4 hours.
Register here:
pratergalerie.de/en/prater-digi…
Pro-Kremlin outlets focus on how bad situation is outside Russia, so that Russian society doesn't get inspired from liberal democracies. As reality of protracted war against Ukraine sinks in, every outside crisis is a welcome distraction. euvsdisinfo.eu/all-the-things…#DisinfoReview
Google has entered into the generative-AI era with a search engine that appears more complex than ever, @mimbsy writes.
"And yet it still can be commandeered by junk that’s untrue or even just nonsensical." theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
So nobody has actually replicated McGuire's original psychological inoculation experiment from the '60s. A team just did in 2023 (60 years on) & here's a short thread about at least one robust & reliable finding in social psychology: inoculation.
econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/18…
[1/2] As elections approach in Indonesia, journalists, investigators & citizens prepare to cover and monitor the political campaigns. @PradipaPR investigated how the industry of influence operation actors or ‘political buzzers’ impact Indonesian politics. influenceindustry.org/en/explorer/ca…
Microsoft president Brad Smith likes to lecture the world about the responsible use of artificial intelligence -- but Microsoft's own AI is messing up the news.
We talk to the editors Microsoft fired and were replaced by AI.
Read our full story here: cnn.com/2023/11/02/tec…
A much more sophisticated, AI-based version of a website I developed ~15 years ago to demonstrate how fake news could be generated automatically and monetized. This is infinitely scarier -- not just monetization, but mass social engineering of reality!
youtu.be/cwGdkrc9i2Y
"The recently-launched European Union Code of Practice on #Disinformation, Brookie noted, is voluntary and does not apply to governments: the burden of battling disinformation has fallen entirely on Silicon Valley companies."
news.yahoo.com/spy-vs-spy-isr…#africa#russia#israel
Nice summary of what's going on with deception using deepfake audio: washingtonpost.com/technology/202… -- we've seen this coming for about 4-5 years now. What should be platform obligations here?
In May, Meta removed the inauthentic network attributing it to Georgian govt StratCom. The network was spreading anti-Western & pro-Kremlin narratives, mainly conspiracy that the West tries to drag Georgia into the war in Ukraine. @DFRLab@AtlanticCouncildfrlab.org/2023/09/20/ina…
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