#informationoperations — Public Fediverse posts

[DECODED] Who gets blamed when the facts don’t trend?

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/voices/newsletters/decoded-who-gets-blamed-when-facts-dont-trend/

[DECODED] Who gets blamed when the facts don’t trend?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/voices/newsletters/decoded-who-gets-blamed-when-facts-dont-trend/

[DECODED] Who gets blamed when the facts don’t trend?

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/voices/newsletters/decoded-who-gets-blamed-when-facts-dont-trend/

[DECODED] Who gets blamed when the facts don’t trend?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/voices/newsletters/decoded-who-gets-blamed-when-facts-dont-trend/

[DECODED] Who gets blamed when the facts don’t trend?

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/voices/newsletters/decoded-who-gets-blamed-when-facts-dont-trend/

On the Front Line of Foreign Influence: Enhancing Taiwan’s Information Resilience

As a target of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) political warfare, Taiwan’s information environment is constantly flooded…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #China #ChinaTaiwanConflicts #civilsociety #informationoperations #PoliticalWarfare #PRC #Taiwan
https://www.europesays.com/2772088/

Social Media Manipulation for Sale: 2025 NATO Experiment on Platform Capabilities to Detect and Counter Inauthentic Social Media Engagement

Social Media Manipulation for…
#Europe #EU #AI #AlgorithmicManipulation #AlgorithmicWarfare #algorithms #CognitiveDomain #CognitiveWarfare #HumanDomain #informationoperations #narrative #narrativewarfare #NATO #NATOStrategicCommunicationsCentreofExcellence #PsychologicalOperations(PSYOP) #socialmedia #weaponizednarratives
https://www.europesays.com/2751045/

Social Media Manipulation for Sale: 2025 NATO Experiment on Platform Capabilities to Detect and Counter Inauthentic Social Media Engagement https://www.byteseu.com/1768959/ #AI #AlgorithmicManipulation #AlgorithmicWarfare #Algorithms #CognitiveDomain #CognitiveWarfare #Europe #HumanDomain #InformationOperations #narrative #NarrativeWarfare #NATO #NATOStrategicCommunicationsCentreOfExcellence #PsychologicalOperations(PSYOP) #SocialMedia #WeaponizedNarratives

[DECODED] AI as ‘alien intelligence’

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/voices/newsletters/decoded-alien-artificial-intelligence/

[DECODED] AI as ‘alien intelligence’

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/voices/newsletters/decoded-alien-artificial-intelligence/

[DECODED] AI as ‘alien intelligence’

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/voices/newsletters/decoded-alien-artificial-intelligence/

[DECODED] AI as ‘alien intelligence’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/voices/newsletters/decoded-alien-artificial-intelligence/

[DECODED] AI as ‘alien intelligence’

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/voices/newsletters/decoded-alien-artificial-intelligence/

@cbcnews @world-cbcnews

Zuckerberg et al, responsible for the development and introduction of a novel Information Operation that was the stuff of science fiction. Through his centralized social media products, Zuckerberg managed to manipulate whole communities with the use of weaponized algorithms.

For deploying a novel weapon against multiple countries, including the USA, neither he, nor his various associates, has ever served jail time.

Yes, we remember.

#SocialMedia #InformationOperations

#AbLeg #AbPoli #CdnPoli

Very good paper from the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence showcasing the use of AI models for targeted persuasion campaigns on social media. The paper is split in interconnected 2 parts:

1)
Research focusing on real use cases of AI-Generated persuasion campaigns in the German and Russian languages (AI-generated text in less common languages has been more difficult to detect by current AI detection tools).

The use cases include politically oriented content in German, pro-Kremlin messages, conspiracy theories aiming to cause unrest, and disinformation.

2) (most interesting!)
A red team experiment that looks into an adversary’s potential decision making when it comes to crafting, coordinating and launching a precision persuasion campaign.
The researchers used AI models to:

🔹 Define the "right" target profiles based on topics of interest.
🔹 Identify their demonstrated sentiment & behavioral tendencies (based on a clustered analysis of their posts) on those topics of interest.
🔹 Perform psychometric, behavioral, and opinion-based analysis in order to segment those social media accounts into different groups.
The goal of this segmentation was to dig deeper into discovering certain traits about users that would be used in tailoring the targeting content in accordance with those psychometric characteristics.
🔹 Frame and phrase the message (the content) based on the user profile and the analysis performed in the previous steps, with the help of generative AI.

The results of the output - the "tailored" messages - are very interesting.

Keep in mind that this is the reality that we will be called to face in the near future. A higher scale of well-tailored information & influence campaigns that will not only come accross our own social media profiles, but also the ones of everyday people that may NOT possess the level of awareness that you potentially do, but still have a vote to cast on important topics.

In any case, this is a highly recommended read.
The annex includes some of the prompts along with other interesting details. Enjoy!

Link:

https://stratcomcoe.org/publications/ai-in-precision-persuasion-unveiling-tactics-and-risks-on-social-media/309

#disinformation #influenceoperations #socialengineering #informationoperations #artificialintelligence #AI

Justice Department Disrupts Covert Russian Government-Sponsored Foreign Malign Influence Operation Targeting Audiences in the United States and Elsewhere

Folks, take a look at this and MAKE SURE YOU OPEN THE 3 EXHIBITS that DOJ has linked within the text. These are actual Russian disinfo strategy documents translated into English. #disinformation #ElectionInterference #Russia #InformationOperations
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-disrupts-covert-russian-government-sponsored-foreign-malign-influence

Ok, todays piece addresses #informationoperations and #wagner

https://nadinbrzezinski.medium.com/zaporizhia-npp-and-wagner-bb9ee0d6358c

More #Russian #InformationOperations. Short 🧵👇

Dmitry Medvedev:

I will note one thing that politicians of all stripes do not like to admit: a nuclear Apocalypse is not only possible, but also quite likely. Why?
There are at least two reasons.

Documents from a Russian IT contractor give insights into the methodology and tools to develop, manage, and execute information operations.

https://www.mandiant.com/resources/blog/cyber-operations-russian-vulkan

They include 2 frameworks with information on how to scan and collect data at scale, how to structure databases for it, how to store and organize data for information confrontation and psychological operations and a training platform for exercising coordinated IO/OT attacks.

I'm glad to see documentation of a strategy we tried to raise awareness of back in 2018 in Europe: The sophisticated combination of IO and "classic" cyber attacks.

#VulkanFiles #IO #informationwarfare #informationoperations

It absolutely never fails. These are the same people.

#disinformation #mediamanipulation #propaganda #autocracy #informationoperations #medialiteracy #infosec #scicomm #mems #NAFO #ukraine

I've been here for a while, but time for a re- #introduction:

I'm Scott or Vortex Egg, and I'm a cursed librarian. I work at the intersection of #technology, #informationscience, and #collectivebehavior on mitigating informational harms and violent extremism. I am currently pursuing an MLIS degree and am employed as the tech lead of a related nonprofit.

My work and research touch on:

**Digital extremism**
The influence of digital technologies, #misinformation, #propaganda, and #informationoperations on the emergence of #cults, #conspiracytheories, and #terrorism and violent #extremism.

**Cursed library science**
The management of harmful information, #contentmoderation and #TrustAndSafety, #digitalarchiving & #digitalpreservation, and #research methods for #cursedknowledge.

**Collective information science**
Theories of collective #informationbehavior, including #sensemaking, #crisisinformatics and #rumoring, the dynamics of #informationecosystems, and corrupted and stigmatized #informationseeking.

**Complexity science**
My work is informed by a qualitative and applied approach to #complexityscience, #systemsthinking, and #complexsystems as well as...

**Critical technology**
A critical and analytical perspective on #sociotechnical systems, #surveillance and #algorithms, #cybernetics, and #swarmintelligence.

I've been here for a while, but time for a re- #introduction:

I'm Scott or Vortex Egg, and I'm a cursed librarian. I work at the intersection of #technology, #informationscience, and #collectivebehavior on mitigating informational harms and violent extremism. I am currently pursuing an MLIS degree and am employed as the tech lead of a related nonprofit.

My work and research touch on:

**Digital extremism**
The influence of digital technologies, #misinformation, #propaganda, and #informationoperations on the emergence of #cults, #conspiracytheories, and #terrorism and violent #extremism.

**Cursed library science**
The management of harmful information, #contentmoderation and #TrustAndSafety, #digitalarchiving & #digitalpreservation, and #research methods for #cursedknowledge.

**Collective information science**
Theories of collective #informationbehavior, including #sensemaking, #crisisinformatics and #rumoring, the dynamics of #informationecosystems, and corrupted and stigmatized #informationseeking.

**Complexity science**
My work is informed by a qualitative and applied approach to #complexityscience, #systemsthinking, and #complexsystems as well as...

**Critical technology**
A critical and analytical perspective on #sociotechnical systems, #surveillance and #algorithms, #cybernetics, and #swarmintelligence.

I've been here for a while, but time for a re- #introduction:

I'm Scott or Vortex Egg, and I'm a cursed librarian. I work at the intersection of #technology, #informationscience, and #collectivebehavior on mitigating informational harms and violent extremism. I am currently pursuing an MLIS degree and am employed as the tech lead of a related nonprofit.

My work and research touch on:

**Digital extremism**
The influence of digital technologies, #misinformation, #propaganda, and #informationoperations on the emergence of #cults, #conspiracytheories, and #terrorism and violent #extremism.

**Cursed library science**
The management of harmful information, #contentmoderation and #TrustAndSafety, #digitalarchiving & #digitalpreservation, and #research methods for #cursedknowledge.

**Collective information science**
Theories of collective #informationbehavior, including #sensemaking, #crisisinformatics and #rumoring, the dynamics of #informationecosystems, and corrupted and stigmatized #informationseeking.

**Complexity science**
My work is informed by a qualitative and applied approach to #complexityscience, #systemsthinking, and #complexsystems as well as...

**Critical technology**
A critical and analytical perspective on #sociotechnical systems, #surveillance and #algorithms, #cybernetics, and #swarmintelligence.

I've been here for a while, but time for a re- #introduction:

I'm Scott or Vortex Egg, and I'm a cursed librarian. I work at the intersection of #technology, #informationscience, and #collectivebehavior on mitigating informational harms and violent extremism. I am currently pursuing an MLIS degree and am employed as the tech lead of a related nonprofit.

My work and research touch on:

**Digital extremism**
The influence of digital technologies, #misinformation, #propaganda, and #informationoperations on the emergence of #cults, #conspiracytheories, and #terrorism and violent #extremism.

**Cursed library science**
The management of harmful information, #contentmoderation and #TrustAndSafety, #digitalarchiving & #digitalpreservation, and #research methods for #cursedknowledge.

**Collective information science**
Theories of collective #informationbehavior, including #sensemaking, #crisisinformatics and #rumoring, the dynamics of #informationecosystems, and corrupted and stigmatized #informationseeking.

**Complexity science**
My work is informed by a qualitative and applied approach to #complexityscience, #systemsthinking, and #complexsystems as well as...

**Critical technology**
A critical and analytical perspective on #sociotechnical systems, #surveillance and #algorithms, #cybernetics, and #swarmintelligence.

I've been here for a while, but time for a re- #introduction:

I'm Scott or Vortex Egg, and I'm a cursed librarian. I work at the intersection of #technology, #informationscience, and #collectivebehavior on mitigating informational harms and violent extremism. I am currently pursuing an MLIS degree and am employed as the tech lead of a related nonprofit.

My work and research touch on:

**Digital extremism**
The influence of digital technologies, #misinformation, #propaganda, and #informationoperations on the emergence of #cults, #conspiracytheories, and #terrorism and violent #extremism.

**Cursed library science**
The management of harmful information, #contentmoderation and #TrustAndSafety, #digitalarchiving & #digitalpreservation, and #research methods for #cursedknowledge.

**Collective information science**
Theories of collective #informationbehavior, including #sensemaking, #crisisinformatics and #rumoring, the dynamics of #informationecosystems, and corrupted and stigmatized #informationseeking.

**Complexity science**
My work is informed by a qualitative and applied approach to #complexityscience, #systemsthinking, and #complexsystems as well as...

**Critical technology**
A critical and analytical perspective on #sociotechnical systems, #surveillance and #algorithms, #cybernetics, and #swarmintelligence.

👋 In case you missed the previous announcements:

Some of us are tagging @potemkinvillage for interdisciplinary scholarship, praxis, and expertise related to #propaganda #disinformation #attentionmanipulation, #FIMI, #informationwarfare #informationoperations etc etc etc...

(definitions are a hot topic right now, over in the village!).

Feel free to tag, follow, and join the conversation 💬

Quite a few #disinformation researchers on #Mastodon now, from all different fields & instances.

Why not connect & share content!
Let's try this group thingy for #infoops #InformationOperations #HybridWarfare #InformationWarfare #infowar #SemanticOperations #misinformation #conspiracy #InformationManipulation etc, etc, etc.. (wow so many different #!)

You can follow &
Tag @disinformation to boost your toots.

#introduction MY LATEST ARTICLE: 'Pentagon PSYOP Scandal Demands an Urgent Debate on #Propaganda Ethics It’s time for a public debate about clandestine PSYOPs' @Techpolicypress #UnitedStates #military #pentagon #psyop #influenceoperations #covert #datascience #informationoperations #ethics #influence #Facebook #Twitter https://techpolicy.press/pentagon-psyop-scandal-demands-an-urgent-debate-on-propaganda-ethics/ @potemkinvillage

Another #introduction post for newcomers! I am a #British #propaganda #academic living in the #UnitedStates! I am fascinated with #deception in politics and war and was central in exposing the #CambridgeAnalytica scandal over misuse of #Facebook data. Follow me for #influenceoperations #disinformation #media #technology #transparency #policy #stratcom #conflict #regulation #ethics #governance including #military #informationoperations and the occasional cute dog pic 🐕 - thanks!! #introductions

Hi folks, #FollowFriday! - follow me if you are interested in #influenceoperations #disinformation #media #technology #transparency #propaganda #policy #stratcom #conflict #regulation #ethics and #governance including in #military #informationoperations - thanks!!

Hi #introductions, follow me if you are interested in #influenceoperations #disinformation #media #technology #transparency #propaganda #policy #ethics and #governance including in #military #informationoperations - thanks!!

Hi folks, follow me if you are interested in #influenceoperations #disinformation #media #technology #transparency #propaganda #policy #ethics and #governance including in #military #informationoperations - thanks!!