Disinformation

DFRLab and iLAB, members of the ADDO consortium, uncovered five emerging trends from disinformation actors — In a recent investigation, DFRLab uncovered evidence of Russian influence ops in Sudan. And in Kenya, the iLAB revealed how Kenyan political activists use coordinated amplification on social media to undermine each other’s public leaders. Here are 5 noteworthy trends discovered by the digital sleuths in the ADDO network:

A supposedly inspirational social media post about the importance of help from a Jewish family in his neighborhood goes too far, and erases the role of his mother and grandmother. As you can see from the research video above, I recently encountered the following post on Linkedin: The line…

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Russian disinformation spread by “Useful Idiots” inside the U.S. As the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) conducts its criminal probe of Giuliani, U.S. intelligence grows more concerned about how Russian disinformation is influencing other influential Americans, as well as the lay public. …

From the content of the Ukraine-Russia conflict to the spread of misleading information about elections and COVID-19, new online platform responsibilities are coming about. Big Tech companies have been granted a new, powerful role: mediating information & addressing harmful content that is being spread on their platforms. The question is…

Подобно на срещата с непознат човек на живо (клиент, партньор, служител), онлайн също разполагате само с няколко секунди, за да направите най-доброто първо впечатление. Едно от силните предимства на социалните медии е директният достъп, който имате до клиентите ви, както и те до вас. Целенасоченото и последователно използване на платформите…

Lord Puttnam said that we are ‘living in a world in which trust is collapsing’. Climate disinformation is being dragged into culture wars, and twisted so it’s unrecognisable. All aided and abetted by social media platform algorithms, and bankrolled by our favourite brands’ advertising. My TEDx Talk for Climate Action Tech which you can watch here.

Disinformation analysts working in the InfoTester project identified a new trend in the circles promoting false content — departure from the subject of the pandemic and vaccination against COVID-19 towards the war in Ukraine and the situation of refugees in Poland. The report takes a closer look at this change. When analysing which sources (media/paramedical sites) publish pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian content, it was found that a significant part of the (dis)information space decided to change priorities very quickly. Confirmation of this fact can be found in the possibility of linking these portals with Russia or Russian financing. Subsequently, main disinformation messages (narratives) were studied in detail, and it was established that they focus on building resentment and fear of refugees from Ukraine. The last part of the report describes, using selected examples, how the leaders of anti-vaccination movements launched disinformation campaigns on the war in Ukraine.

Or why the world’s gone mad. On 1st May 1776, in what’s now Germany but was then Bavaria, a small group of thinkers founded a group dedicated to the ideals of the enlightenment. …