"Here is a difficult truth: A part of the American political spectrum is not merely a passive recipient of the combined authoritarian narratives that come from Russia, China, and their ilk, but an active participant in creating and spreading them."
"Like the leaders of those countries, the American MAGA right also wants Americans to believe that their democracy is degenerate, their elections illegitimate, their civilization dying. The MAGA movement’s leaders also have an interest in pumping nihilism and cynicism into the brains of their fellow citizens, and in convincing them that nothing they see is true."
#AI#GenerativeAI#Propaganda#DeepFakes#Disinformation: "AI propaganda is here. But is it persuasive? Recent research published in PNAS Nexus and conducted by Tomz, Josh Goldstein from the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University, and three Stanford colleagues—master’s student Jason Chao, research scholar Shelby Grossman, and lecturer Alex Stamos—examined the effectiveness of AI-generated propaganda.
#Europe#Russia#Sabotage#Disinformation: "European intelligence agencies have warned their governments that Russia is plotting violent acts of sabotage across the continent as it commits to a course of permanent conflict with the west.
Russia has already begun to more actively prepare covert bombings, arson attacks and damage to infrastructure on European soil, directly and via proxies, with little apparent concern about causing civilian fatalities, intelligence officials believe.
While the Kremlin’s agents have a long history of such operations — and launched attacks sporadically in Europe in recent years — evidence is mounting of a more aggressive and concerted effort, according to assessments from three different European countries shared with the Financial Times.
Intelligence officials are becoming increasingly vocal about the threat in an effort to promote vigilance.
“We assess the risk of state-controlled acts of sabotage to be significantly increased,” said Thomas Haldenwang, head of German domestic intelligence. Russia now seems comfortable carrying out operations on European soil “[with] a high potential for damage,” he told a security conference last month hosted by his agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution."
These insidious little pests eat the protective earths from electrical installations, plugs and devices. Copper and plastic sheathing both disappear without a trace, as if they were never there.
These dangerous insects are very common around here. Sometimes even the shops selling electrical installation materials are infected and replacement plugs on shelves are entirely missing their PE pins.
"Last Saturday, I was at a community gathering of around 30 Vietnamese immigrants, all in their 50s and 60s, in Oakland, California, when I asked if anyone knew anything about AI or artificial intelligence.
None of them had ever heard of it...And in this room full of elders from my community, the Vietnamese community, no one knew about it, which meant no one knew to look for it."
"Generative artificial intelligence (#GAI) adds a new dimension to the problem of #disinformation. Freely available and largely unregulated tools make it possible for anyone to generate (...) fake content in vast quantities. (...) But there is also a positive side. Used smartly, GAI can provide a greater number of content consumers with trustworthy information"
A handful of billionaires are tightening their grip on the information ecosystem.
Elon Musk has transformed Twitter into x, a platform that amplifies disinformation, bigotry and conspiracy theories. Musk altered the network's algorithm to promote his fascist propaganda and suppress links from factual, science and reputable Information and other independent outlets.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has downgraded reliable news and political sites for Information on Facebook and other Meta properties, prioritizing memes and celebrity gossip.
Remember, the judge ruled, to instruct the jury, that all of Fox’s statements were false. But Dominion still has the right to make its case. So they are going to present the statements, from their first opening, in all their lurid detail. Fox has to just sit there and take it.
Fox purposefully lied to Americans continually, knowing criminal suspect Donald lost. Fox helped him spread #TheBigLie and launch the insurrection.
If, like roughly a hundred million Americans, you regularly consume fascist propaganda in the guise of cable “news” (fox, newsmax, & other propaganda outlets) online disinformation publications, and the platform formerly known as Twitter, it’s likely that at least some of that fascist propaganda is originating in Moscow.
Kremlin documents reveal Russian trolls are targeting U.S. support for Ukraine and engaging in a significant campaign to undermine U.S. elections and discourage voting.
@Staggaly 🧵 1/3 Sorry to put it so bluntly: as a journalist whose DNA includes critical scrutiny, I was surprised that her ‘books’ were removed from Amazon + that there is little else to be found. That doesn't happen to real scientists. I then checked your link. The text alone made me sceptical, because here ‘studies’ are thrown together in a wild mix that deals with completely different things: Ozone formation through exhaust gases, ozone layer as protection, CO2, other gases.
À #VIGINUM, nous avons pour mission de détecter et caractériser les manipulations de l'information impliquant des acteurs étrangers dans le débat public français.
Nous recrutons un•e développeur•se fullstack pour renforcer le pôle technique. Au programme, pas mal de #scraping et de collecte de données mais aussi développement d'outils en interne.
In the summer of 1947, a woman walked into a drug store in Memphis, Tennessee, to drop off film to be developed when she realized she had one exposure left.
She noticed a young boy outside the drugstore and asked him to pose with his bicycle so she could finish the roll and turn it in.
@globalmuseum Is her name known? If you have a year, it should be. Would be fine to know #HerStory! Normally you get it at the source of the photo.
I have the same problem like @riley ... the way his fingers are prolonged after the artifacts. Also the hand of the smoking man looks weird.
Nowadays, it's very important to check and note the sources! (There's so much AI generated #disinformation in Social Media.)
I really hope the Democrats have a plan to counter GOP gaslighting in the months leading up to the election. After the #SCOTUS arguments today, it seems the conservatives are all on the same page when it comes to trying to convince millions of Americans that Trump is a normal candidate, a legitimate choice for president, and that these are normal times - millions want to believe it, so doesn't seem to be a terribly daunting task.
#Journalism#Media#News#FakeNews#Disinformation#Misinformation: "In our interviews, the journalists kept referring to themselves as being kind of the middlemen between academics, politicians, and citizens. Journalists like to import their definitions from somewhere – they don’t come up with their own. That’s something scholars do. So, the journalists look “up” to a perceived higher epistemic authority – academia – for clarity and definitions. But academia is, to them, at the same time a bit disconnected from the real world and too technical. This is where the problem arises. Journalists look towards academia for definitions, but they keep rejecting key parts of the definitions because they argue that they must account for those that are “beneath” them – their readers. They argue that they must translate from the high authority of academics to the low authority of audiences. They also say they must account for how politicians “dilute” meaning. So, what do they do, they switch to a new term. Or they import a term but not its academic definition, and it gets messy.
The goal: to have a comprehensive data driven understanding how multi-generational trauma shapes implicit bias in institutions, groups, familes etc and how it intertwines DK in community leaders.
So that we can work together to address these issues together!
Proposal would target those responsible for threatening the stability, security or #sovereignty of EU member states or third countries by undermining elections, the rule of law, facilitating acts of #violence or do so through the use of information manipulation and interference