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🇬🇧🧑💻⛽️🔥 Close to the anniversary of the Southport misinformation spread and riots episode, I wrote about attempts made over the past year, by people in the same ecosystem, to gaslight and conspiracise a "vindication vibe" out of their utter humiliation, and the need for an "information battle station".
📑 https://sohandsouza.substack.com/p/simmering-narratives-and-southport
#Southport #UK #riots #misinfo #disinfo #infoDisorder #conspiracism #factCheck #OSINT #SOCMINT #farRight #polarization
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🔥🧌🧑💻🕵️ I wrote an update-summary post about the European anti-immigrant/-Muslim disinformation grift operations that I have been investigating on X, including recent events in Ireland and Wales, and connecting it to the misinformation-targeted riots across the UK last summer.
📄 https://sohandsouza.substack.com/p/fakery-playing-with-fire#Ireland #Wales #Europe #UK #Southport #xenophobia #bigotry #grift #Xitter #disinfo #misinfo #platforms #monetization #OSINT #SOCMINT #infoVoid
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🕵️🗯🔁🧑💻 "Replycator" accounts rip content off other accounts and repost as their own while reply spamming, attempting to farm and agitate Western right-wing audiences, including in the UK, while originating in places like India. I present three examples among those I identified and analysed using OSINT.
📑 https://sohandsouza.substack.com/p/spammy-vibes-and-monetized-jibes#OSINT #SOCMINT #replycator #rightWing #spamming #Xitter #platforms #socialMedia #propaganda #inauthentic #India #UK #grifters #farRight #rightWing #xenophobia
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FRI JAN/23: ⚛️🕵️🧑💻🧑🏫 I will be presenting a webinar on online information disorder phenomena and tactics, and on investigation of these, for the Secular Student Alliance
🗓️ https://secularstudents.org/webinars/exposing-and-mitigating-online-mass-manipulation/#OSINT #SOCMINT #infOps #mediaLit #socialMedia #platforms #disinfo #misinfo
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🇬🇧🕵️🧑💻🧑🏫 The British Computer Society has published my recent presentation for them in London, on my investigations of international influence operations and misinformation spread affecting the UK, and OSINT/SOCMINT basics.
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBhHVtKbvkI#disinformation #misinformation #informationWarfare #propaganda #influenceOperations #OSINT #SOCMINT #London #UK
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🧑💻🕵️🤖🛡 I was featured on Intel Focus' Intelligence Spotlight podcast, speaking with Qais Alamdar about information warfare evolving in the age of AI, and the challenges and opportunities for researchers and OSINT/SOCMINT investigators in the counter-infops/-misinfo space.
🎧▶️ https://www.intelfocus.org/podcasts/inside-the-future-of-information-warfare-amp-ai-before-2030-with-sohan-dsouza#OSINT #SOCMINT #AI #genAI #infowar #infops #disinfo #misinfo #natsec
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MON SEP/15: 🇬🇧🕵️🧑💻🧑🏫 I'll be at the British Computer Society (BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT) London, presenting observations from my infop/misinfo investigations, with OSINT/SOCMINT basics.
Details and registration (in-person or online) at https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/september/hybrid-disinformation-in-practice-tips-and-tools/#UK #influenceOperations #misinformation #disinformation #OSINT #SOCMINT #London #tech #platforms
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And there it is.
As documented on video, the counterprotesters were under harassment, assault, and pelting with eggs, fireworks, and other brickbats while on their way to the hotel *on foot*, and while protesting there, justifying removing them by vehicle.
https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/nigel-farage-makes-apology-after-10372291
#misinformation #propaganda #politics #farRight #Farage #riots #Epping #Essex #UK
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🇬🇧🗞🔥🧑🏫 The Media Innovation Studio's "Lessons from Southport" launch webinar, including my presentation on misinfo patterns fueling the riots, has been published.
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGyE2THmPWc&t=1763s#Southport #UK #riots #misinfo #infoDisorder #platforms #tech #media #socialMedia
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🇬🇧🗞🔥🕵️ I wrote a guest post at Common Ground, about six character profiles involved in misinformation and manipulation patterns surrounding the UK Southport-spinoff summer riots of 2024, and ideas for systemic-level changes to help expose and foil their activity going forward.
📃 https://lexiekirkconnellkawana.substack.com/p/how-platform-design-amplified-misinformation#UK #Southport #riots #misinfo #platforms #tech #socialMedia #OSINT #SOCMINT
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David Lush on information crises in media, MOBRA, and the "Lessons from Southport" project at the Media Innovation Studio.
https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/how-information-voids-can-fuel-a-crisis-lessons-from-southport-s-media-response/s2/a1258269/#UK #Southport #misinfo #media #crisisResponse #MOBRA #journalism #infoVoid
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THU JUN/19: 🇬🇧🗞🔥🧑🏫 Approaching the first anniversary of the misinformation-amplified Southport-spinoff UK riots, I'll be joining the Media Innovation Studio's report launch webinar event "Crisis, Trust & the Media: What We Learned from Southport" to present on my investigations of the misinformation spread, and on how such information disorder is facilitated and incentivised by tech design.
🔗 https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c7131c1d-629b-4a60-a612-5ee0fbcff088@ebf69982-036b-4cc4-b202-7aeb194c5065#Southport #UK #riots #misinfo #infoDisorder #platforms #tech #media #socialMedia
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🧌🧑💻🇮🇪🔥 The European xenophobic grift X account I exposed as having been farmed+flipped was caught attempting to repeat an information void exploitation tactic to stoke anti-immigrant/-Muslim aggression in Ireland.
I was interviewed about this phenomenon for this RTÉ Clarity piece by Jack McCarron.
📰 https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2025/0511/1511993-fanning-flames-how-a-donegal-fire-was-used-to-stoke-hate-online/#Ireland #Wales #UK #Europe #xenophobia #bigotry #grifters #Xitter #disinfo #misinfo #platforms #transparency #OSINT #SOCMINT
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🕵️🧑💻👺🌏 My seminar at the @maxplanckgesellschaft Institute for Human Development's Center for Humans and Machines; on my investigation of a high-spend, months-long, cross-platform, international, merc-proxied influence operation; and on my investigation of patterns and infrastructure of misinformation spread fomenting the 2024 UK summer riots; has been published by the institute.
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMnA0uflj60
📄 https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/events/39890/59082#UK #Europe #infops #disinfo #misinfo #platforms #OSINT #SOCMINT
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🧑💻🕵️🧑🏫🇬🇧 The recording of my and @marcowenjones' webinar for the Central London Humanists, on our investigations of international cross-platform influence operation "The Qatar Plot", and of misinformation spread during the Southport-spinoff riots that followed in the UK, has been published.
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmmTWleCCXs#misinformation #SouthportRiots #UK #infops #influenceOperations #disinformation #astroturfing #socialMedia #webinar
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〝Muslims in Michigan began seeing pro-Israel ads this fall praising Vice President Kamala Harris for marrying a Jewish man and backing the Jewish state. Jews in Pennsylvania, meanwhile, saw ads from the same group with the opposite message: Harris wanted to stop U.S. arms shipments to Israel.〞
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/15/republican-ads-false-flag/#infops #America #elections #swingStates #politics #falsePositives #disinformation
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«No matter, Rufo said, he had proof in the form of some impressive shoe-leather reporting.
So I visited Dayton for Drop Site News, and tracked down the infamous blue grill. It turns out there are a lot of holes in that shoe leather»
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/the-unraveling-of-a-cat-tale#chrisrufo #disinfo #Ohio #DaytonOH #elections #TrumpVance #debunked
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〝[…] multiple groups of “sock-puppet” editor accounts, which have coordinated their activity to rewrite pages relating to Russian-Ukrainian relations while using false identifiers. These groups have actively undermined Western and Ukrainian information sources and instead endorsed Russian narratives and state-sponsored media.〞
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/10/04/russia-ukraine-putin-wikipedia-ruwiki-disinformation/#Russia #Wikipedia #sockPuppetry #Ukraine #disinfo #platforms #socialMedia #splinternet
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〝Lee said she never imagined her post would become fodder for conspiracy theories and hate. […] “I didn’t think it would ever get past Springfield," she said.〞
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-just-exploded-springfield-woman-says-never-meant-spark-rumors-haitian-rcna171099 -
〝After locals intervened, the accused took Malik to another location and beat him again, leading to his death. Malik lived in a shanty near Bandhra village and collected waste and empty bottles for a living. The accused suspected that Malik consumed beef. A case under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) has been registered against the accused.〞
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/bengal-migrant-worker-beaten-to-death-haryana-cow-vigilante-group-beef-consumption-police-2591366-2024-08-31#India #Hindutva #Muslims #vigilantism #ruleOfLaw #lynching #Haryana
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Guide to cross-platform username lookup service for OSINT practitioners: https://www.forensicosint.com/whats-my-name-app
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Dollar Tree now charges $1.25.
Which is about £1.
They should rename it Poundland or somethin' like. -
A thread on the #Southport riots misinfo and the incentives driving the platform digital asset market that played a role in one of the sites that legitimized it.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1822244897635577857.html
#OSINT #misinformation #UK #socialMedia #platforms #hacking #engagementFarming #greyMarket
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🇬🇧🔥🎙 My thoughts on the role of online incentivized inauthentic inflammation of the ongoing UK anti-immigration riots, in an Al Jazeera English #InsideStory panel.
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnSRC1xpLvg#UK #England #riots #Southport #immigration #propaganda #inauthentic #socialMedia #disinformation #TheQatarPlot
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So used to pinyin and 普通话 Chinese, I instinctively read this as "車門". 🧐
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〝On Breitbart, commenters used the allegations made within the document to discuss polarizing issues in the US such as immigration. One user wrote: “Identify as many non-citizen immigrants as possible in these protests and deport them forthwith. Sign the deportation order, put them in buses and haul their asses to the airport.”〞
#hackAndLeak #fakeNews #disinfo #socialMedia #viral #Iran #protests
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〝Today’s ruling makes clear there’s no social media exception to the First Amendment. The government has no business dictating to platforms what opinions they must host. The court rightly rejects the idea that lawmakers have more authority over speech online than they do offline. That’s a big win for free speech and a free internet.〞
https://www.thefire.org/news/fire-statement-moody-v-netchoice-and-netchoice-v-paxton#1A #freeExpression #internet #Section230 #law #SCOTUS #Texas #Florida #NetChoice #platforms
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From @bendobrown: 〝The network identified in this research consists of at least 53 identities and more than 100 accounts across platforms. These accounts attempted to bolster their credibility by using believable Sikh names […]〞
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〝While dominant interventions, such as fact-checking, media literacy tips and news coverage of misinformation, aim to prevent the spread and endorsement of misinformation, we found that they may inadvertently prime individuals to approach all information, whether false or true, with heightened suspicion and scepticism.〞
#misinformation #MDM #factChecking #interventions #credulity #media
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〝Although we find that the Bad News game reduces susceptibility to misinformation from political ingroup sources, we also find clear ingroup/outgroup source effects. This suggests that interventions might benefit from incorporating training in the impact of contextual cues that may mislead news consumers, in addition to content-based clues.〞
https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gamified-inoculation-reduces-susceptibility-to-misinformation-from-political-ingroups/#misinformation #inoculation #internet #gamification #research #media #polarization