#infops — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #infops, aggregated by home.social.
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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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🧑💻🕵️🤖🛡 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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🕵️🧑💻👺🌏 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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🧑💻📲📲🧑💻 ARTE just released its documentary on the "phone farm" phenomenon in Vietnam: industrial-scale online astroturfing enabled by specialized software providers and a market in hacked/boilerplate accounts. It features my and @marcowenjones' findings from our investigation last year of an influence operation that employed one of these outfits.
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjW-jdKpsw8 (👀 13:37)#infops #phoneFarms #Vietnam #inauthentic #astroturfing #OSINT #TheQatarPlot #Meta #Facebook #platforms #socialMedia
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🧑💻📲📲🧑💻 ARTE just released its documentary on the "phone farm" phenomenon in Vietnam: industrial-scale online astroturfing enabled by specialized software providers and a market in hacked/boilerplate accounts. It features my and @marcowenjones' findings from our investigation last year of an influence operation that employed one of these outfits.
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjW-jdKpsw8 (👀 13:37)#infops #phoneFarms #Vietnam #inauthentic #astroturfing #OSINT #TheQatarPlot #Meta #Facebook #platforms #socialMedia
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🧑💻📲📲🧑💻 ARTE just released its documentary on the "phone farm" phenomenon in Vietnam: industrial-scale online astroturfing enabled by specialized software providers and a market in hacked/boilerplate accounts. It features my and @marcowenjones' findings from our investigation last year of an influence operation that employed one of these outfits.
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjW-jdKpsw8 (👀 13:37)#infops #phoneFarms #Vietnam #inauthentic #astroturfing #OSINT #TheQatarPlot #Meta #Facebook #platforms #socialMedia
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🧑💻📲📲🧑💻 ARTE just released its documentary on the "phone farm" phenomenon in Vietnam: industrial-scale online astroturfing enabled by specialized software providers and a market in hacked/boilerplate accounts. It features my and @marcowenjones' findings from our investigation last year of an influence operation that employed one of these outfits.
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjW-jdKpsw8 (👀 13:37)#infops #phoneFarms #Vietnam #inauthentic #astroturfing #OSINT #TheQatarPlot #Meta #Facebook #platforms #socialMedia
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🧑💻📲📲🧑💻 ARTE just released its documentary on the "phone farm" phenomenon in Vietnam: industrial-scale online astroturfing enabled by specialized software providers and a market in hacked/boilerplate accounts. It features my and @marcowenjones' findings from our investigation last year of an influence operation that employed one of these outfits.
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjW-jdKpsw8 (👀 13:37)#infops #phoneFarms #Vietnam #inauthentic #astroturfing #OSINT #TheQatarPlot #Meta #Facebook #platforms #socialMedia
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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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Presenting a seminar on my investigations of influence operations and misinformation bursts, with the Center for Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin today.
Seminar details: https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/events/39890/59082
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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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«When a handful of employees at RT, the Russian state television network formerly known as Russia Today, allegedly offered to provide lucrative payments to the talking heads of Tenet Media, a Tennessee-based far-right influencer team, borrowing boats to reach the sea was exactly what they had in mind.»
#infops #propaganda #TenetMedia #Russia #Authoritarianism #America
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«Such influencers typically don’t start out peddling rumours and disinformation. But some notice that, once they start talking about a certain controversial topic, they receive more engagement on social media. The more they talk about it, the more people ‘like’ and share what they have to say, leading algorithms to recommend their content even more.»
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〝Disinformation campaigns threaten key political and societal nodes in Taiwan, seeking to undermine the confidence of Taiwan’s people […]. This virtual seminar will explore foreign malign influence trends in Taiwan and the importance of information resilience in maintaining the island’s security.〞
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/a-cross-strait-and-beyond-seminar-narrative-warfare-in-taiwan/
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🆕🕵️🧑💻📑 Comparison/contrast between my and @marcowenjones' original investigation of a Vietnam-proxied UK-/EU-/US-/…-targeted influence operation ("The Qatar Plot"), and Meta's recently-published report's section on it (paints it way bigger than we had estimated, but leaves out notable details too): [ https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1825912203045752965.html ]
#disinfo #infops #Facebook #Meta #socialMedia #Qatar #UK #US #EU #Europe #TheQatarPlot #Vietnam
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🆕🕵️🧑💻📑 Comparison/contrast between my and @marcowenjones' original investigation of a Vietnam-proxied UK-/EU-/US-/…-targeted influence operation ("The Qatar Plot"), and Meta's recently-published report's section on it (paints it way bigger than we had estimated, but leaves out notable details too): [ https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1825912203045752965.html ]
#disinfo #infops #Facebook #Meta #socialMedia #Qatar #UK #US #EU #Europe #TheQatarPlot #Vietnam
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🆕🕵️🧑💻📑 Comparison/contrast between my and @marcowenjones' original investigation of a Vietnam-proxied UK-/EU-/US-/…-targeted influence operation ("The Qatar Plot"), and Meta's recently-published report's section on it (paints it way bigger than we had estimated, but leaves out notable details too): [ https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1825912203045752965.html ]
#disinfo #infops #Facebook #Meta #socialMedia #Qatar #UK #US #EU #Europe #TheQatarPlot #Vietnam
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🆕🕵️🧑💻📑 Comparison/contrast between my and @marcowenjones' original investigation of a Vietnam-proxied UK-/EU-/US-/…-targeted influence operation ("The Qatar Plot"), and Meta's recently-published report's section on it (paints it way bigger than we had estimated, but leaves out notable details too): [ https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1825912203045752965.html ]
#disinfo #infops #Facebook #Meta #socialMedia #Qatar #UK #US #EU #Europe #TheQatarPlot #Vietnam
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🆕🕵️🧑💻📑 Comparison/contrast between my and @marcowenjones' original investigation of a Vietnam-proxied UK-/EU-/US-/…-targeted influence operation ("The Qatar Plot"), and Meta's recently-published report's section on it (paints it way bigger than we had estimated, but leaves out notable details too): [ https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1825912203045752965.html ]
#disinfo #infops #Facebook #Meta #socialMedia #Qatar #UK #US #EU #Europe #TheQatarPlot #Vietnam
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〝Specifically, the AI was provided with some background and a prompt to create several variants of messages expressing the same idea, and those variants were posted within and across accounts. The most direct evidence for this tactic comes from several leaks of the prompt from the AI’s response that were accidentally included in the posts. 〞
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/mfh_reports/5/
#Rwanda #inauthentic #platforms #media #RwandaClassified #LLMs #ChatGPT #genAI #AI #infops
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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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〝In addition to the videos, researchers and government officials say, Russia has created a handful of fake American local news sites and is using them to push out Kremlin propaganda, interspersed with stories about crime, politics and culture.〞
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/us/politics/russia-disinformation-election.html -
〝… pages that ran the observed ads were often linked to swarms of hundreds of other pages sharing identical names. Certain pages were created after the page which ran doppelganger ads was de-platformed, indicating that the operation relies on page farms that can create new pages on the fly.〞
https://dfrlab.org/2024/03/12/doppelganger-operation-targets-ukraine/#OperationDoppelganger #infops #disinformation #Russia #Ukraine #France #Europe #Facebook
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〝In contrast to a Dislike count, the Misleading count provides normative information on the accuracy of the message. […] Using normative cues seems to be more effective in polarized contexts (e.g. US voters compared with UK voters) and for posts on polarizing issues (e.g. immigration) compared with non-polarizing issues (e.g. infrastructure).〞
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2023.0040#socialMedia #malinfo #propaganda #infops #polarization #politics #interventions