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Defence Blog: Researchers publish tool to rate disinformation defense. “Researchers at Monash University have published a capacity maturity model for assessing how prepared a country is to defend itself against disinformation campaigns, backed by a 103-page white paper that lays out the reasoning behind it in far more depth than the university’s public summary of the project disclosed.”

Defence Blog: Researchers publish tool to rate disinformation defense. “Researchers at Monash University have published a capacity maturity model for assessing how prepared a country is to defend itself against disinformation campaigns, backed by a 103-page white paper that lays out the reasoning behind it in far more depth than the university’s public summary of the project disclosed.”

Defence Blog: Researchers publish tool to rate disinformation defense. “Researchers at Monash University have published a capacity maturity model for assessing how prepared a country is to defend itself against disinformation campaigns, backed by a 103-page white paper that lays out the reasoning behind it in far more depth than the university’s public summary of the project disclosed.”

Defence Blog: Researchers publish tool to rate disinformation defense. “Researchers at Monash University have published a capacity maturity model for assessing how prepared a country is to defend itself against disinformation campaigns, backed by a 103-page white paper that lays out the reasoning behind it in far more depth than the university’s public summary of the project disclosed.”

Defence Blog: Researchers publish tool to rate disinformation defense. “Researchers at Monash University have published a capacity maturity model for assessing how prepared a country is to defend itself against disinformation campaigns, backed by a 103-page white paper that lays out the reasoning behind it in far more depth than the university’s public summary of the project disclosed.”

Japan Times: How disinformation on X imperils Japan’s democracy. “Tokyo cannot simply stand by while a foreign-owned private platform serves as a pipeline for national destabilization. The Japanese government must take concrete, structural steps to build digital resilience and provide trusted alternatives. First, Japan must support the establishment of an independent, nonpartisan Public […]

Japan Times: How disinformation on X imperils Japan’s democracy. “Tokyo cannot simply stand by while a foreign-owned private platform serves as a pipeline for national destabilization. The Japanese government must take concrete, structural steps to build digital resilience and provide trusted alternatives. First, Japan must support the establishment of an independent, nonpartisan Public […]

Japan Times: How disinformation on X imperils Japan’s democracy. “Tokyo cannot simply stand by while a foreign-owned private platform serves as a pipeline for national destabilization. The Japanese government must take concrete, structural steps to build digital resilience and provide trusted alternatives. First, Japan must support the establishment of an independent, nonpartisan Public […]

Japan Times: How disinformation on X imperils Japan’s democracy. “Tokyo cannot simply stand by while a foreign-owned private platform serves as a pipeline for national destabilization. The Japanese government must take concrete, structural steps to build digital resilience and provide trusted alternatives. First, Japan must support the establishment of an independent, nonpartisan Public […]

Japan Times: How disinformation on X imperils Japan’s democracy. “Tokyo cannot simply stand by while a foreign-owned private platform serves as a pipeline for national destabilization. The Japanese government must take concrete, structural steps to build digital resilience and provide trusted alternatives. First, Japan must support the establishment of an independent, nonpartisan Public […]

Meduza: How Russia is impersonating French news outlets in a bid to influence France’s next presidential election. “Russian disinformation networks have launched an active campaign to interfere in France’s presidential election, which is set for April 2027. Over the past two weeks, at least three cases have come to light in which these networks spread fake news about possible candidates on […]

Meduza: How Russia is impersonating French news outlets in a bid to influence France’s next presidential election. “Russian disinformation networks have launched an active campaign to interfere in France’s presidential election, which is set for April 2027. Over the past two weeks, at least three cases have come to light in which these networks spread fake news about possible candidates on […]

Meduza: How Russia is impersonating French news outlets in a bid to influence France’s next presidential election. “Russian disinformation networks have launched an active campaign to interfere in France’s presidential election, which is set for April 2027. Over the past two weeks, at least three cases have come to light in which these networks spread fake news about possible candidates on […]

Meduza: How Russia is impersonating French news outlets in a bid to influence France’s next presidential election. “Russian disinformation networks have launched an active campaign to interfere in France’s presidential election, which is set for April 2027. Over the past two weeks, at least three cases have come to light in which these networks spread fake news about possible candidates on […]

Meduza: How Russia is impersonating French news outlets in a bid to influence France’s next presidential election. “Russian disinformation networks have launched an active campaign to interfere in France’s presidential election, which is set for April 2027. Over the past two weeks, at least three cases have come to light in which these networks spread fake news about possible candidates on […]

The Guardian: Russia-linked accounts spread far-right narrative online during Ceuta migration crisis, analysis finds. “Russia-linked social media accounts frequently spread destabilising narratives in Europe, often promoting far-right talking points about immigration. But 411 and other experts suggest the scale and coordination of the disinformation that followed the Ceuta crisis is […]

The Guardian: Russia-linked accounts spread far-right narrative online during Ceuta migration crisis, analysis finds. “Russia-linked social media accounts frequently spread destabilising narratives in Europe, often promoting far-right talking points about immigration. But 411 and other experts suggest the scale and coordination of the disinformation that followed the Ceuta crisis is […]

The Guardian: Russia-linked accounts spread far-right narrative online during Ceuta migration crisis, analysis finds. “Russia-linked social media accounts frequently spread destabilising narratives in Europe, often promoting far-right talking points about immigration. But 411 and other experts suggest the scale and coordination of the disinformation that followed the Ceuta crisis is […]

The Guardian: Russia-linked accounts spread far-right narrative online during Ceuta migration crisis, analysis finds. “Russia-linked social media accounts frequently spread destabilising narratives in Europe, often promoting far-right talking points about immigration. But 411 and other experts suggest the scale and coordination of the disinformation that followed the Ceuta crisis is […]

The Guardian: Russia-linked accounts spread far-right narrative online during Ceuta migration crisis, analysis finds. “Russia-linked social media accounts frequently spread destabilising narratives in Europe, often promoting far-right talking points about immigration. But 411 and other experts suggest the scale and coordination of the disinformation that followed the Ceuta crisis is […]

Mission Local: People can’t stop AI-generating visions of San Francisco. “On social media, San Francisco’s housing warriors are trading AI-generated pictures of upzoned neighborhoods like barbs — either in furtherance of urbanists, or to mock them. The posts are occasionally serious, and more often than not ragebait. The Marina, but make it Miami. How about an apartment super-complex […]

Mission Local: People can’t stop AI-generating visions of San Francisco. “On social media, San Francisco’s housing warriors are trading AI-generated pictures of upzoned neighborhoods like barbs — either in furtherance of urbanists, or to mock them. The posts are occasionally serious, and more often than not ragebait. The Marina, but make it Miami. How about an apartment super-complex […]

Mission Local: People can’t stop AI-generating visions of San Francisco. “On social media, San Francisco’s housing warriors are trading AI-generated pictures of upzoned neighborhoods like barbs — either in furtherance of urbanists, or to mock them. The posts are occasionally serious, and more often than not ragebait. The Marina, but make it Miami. How about an apartment super-complex […]

Mission Local: People can’t stop AI-generating visions of San Francisco. “On social media, San Francisco’s housing warriors are trading AI-generated pictures of upzoned neighborhoods like barbs — either in furtherance of urbanists, or to mock them. The posts are occasionally serious, and more often than not ragebait. The Marina, but make it Miami. How about an apartment super-complex […]

Mission Local: People can’t stop AI-generating visions of San Francisco. “On social media, San Francisco’s housing warriors are trading AI-generated pictures of upzoned neighborhoods like barbs — either in furtherance of urbanists, or to mock them. The posts are occasionally serious, and more often than not ragebait. The Marina, but make it Miami. How about an apartment super-complex […]

Balkan Insight: When Propaganda Backfires: Lessons from Orban’s Social Media Defeat in Hungary Election. “According to the Vilnius-based narrative intelligence company Repsense, which combined three complementary analyses in the four months leading up to Hungary’s general election, several of the government’s efforts, including a false-flag operation involving an actual flag to discredit […]

Balkan Insight: When Propaganda Backfires: Lessons from Orban’s Social Media Defeat in Hungary Election. “According to the Vilnius-based narrative intelligence company Repsense, which combined three complementary analyses in the four months leading up to Hungary’s general election, several of the government’s efforts, including a false-flag operation involving an actual flag to discredit […]

Balkan Insight: When Propaganda Backfires: Lessons from Orban’s Social Media Defeat in Hungary Election. “According to the Vilnius-based narrative intelligence company Repsense, which combined three complementary analyses in the four months leading up to Hungary’s general election, several of the government’s efforts, including a false-flag operation involving an actual flag to discredit […]

Balkan Insight: When Propaganda Backfires: Lessons from Orban’s Social Media Defeat in Hungary Election. “According to the Vilnius-based narrative intelligence company Repsense, which combined three complementary analyses in the four months leading up to Hungary’s general election, several of the government’s efforts, including a false-flag operation involving an actual flag to discredit […]

Balkan Insight: When Propaganda Backfires: Lessons from Orban’s Social Media Defeat in Hungary Election. “According to the Vilnius-based narrative intelligence company Repsense, which combined three complementary analyses in the four months leading up to Hungary’s general election, several of the government’s efforts, including a false-flag operation involving an actual flag to discredit […]

New York Times: Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda. This link goes to a gift article. “The campaign, which the researchers at Clemson linked to the Social Design Agency, a company in Moscow, shows how Russia continues to seek new ways to erode public support for Ukraine, which Russian forces invaded in 2022. Bluesky has grown more prominent as a rival platform to […]

New York Times: Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda. This link goes to a gift article. “The campaign, which the researchers at Clemson linked to the Social Design Agency, a company in Moscow, shows how Russia continues to seek new ways to erode public support for Ukraine, which Russian forces invaded in 2022. Bluesky has grown more prominent as a rival platform to […]

New York Times: Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda. This link goes to a gift article. “The campaign, which the researchers at Clemson linked to the Social Design Agency, a company in Moscow, shows how Russia continues to seek new ways to erode public support for Ukraine, which Russian forces invaded in 2022. Bluesky has grown more prominent as a rival platform to […]

New York Times: Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda. This link goes to a gift article. “The campaign, which the researchers at Clemson linked to the Social Design Agency, a company in Moscow, shows how Russia continues to seek new ways to erode public support for Ukraine, which Russian forces invaded in 2022. Bluesky has grown more prominent as a rival platform to […]

New York Times: Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda. This link goes to a gift article. “The campaign, which the researchers at Clemson linked to the Social Design Agency, a company in Moscow, shows how Russia continues to seek new ways to erode public support for Ukraine, which Russian forces invaded in 2022. Bluesky has grown more prominent as a rival platform to […]

Futurism: Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It’s Immediately Used to Fake Terror Attacks. “On Thursday, Google announced that it added an image generation tool straight into the web browser version of the app, allowing anyone to fabricate made-up satellite images of anywhere in the world. It was clearly a misinformation disaster. The AI […]

Futurism: Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It’s Immediately Used to Fake Terror Attacks. “On Thursday, Google announced that it added an image generation tool straight into the web browser version of the app, allowing anyone to fabricate made-up satellite images of anywhere in the world. It was clearly a misinformation disaster. The AI […]

Futurism: Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It’s Immediately Used to Fake Terror Attacks. “On Thursday, Google announced that it added an image generation tool straight into the web browser version of the app, allowing anyone to fabricate made-up satellite images of anywhere in the world. It was clearly a misinformation disaster. The AI […]

Futurism: Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It’s Immediately Used to Fake Terror Attacks. “On Thursday, Google announced that it added an image generation tool straight into the web browser version of the app, allowing anyone to fabricate made-up satellite images of anywhere in the world. It was clearly a misinformation disaster. The AI […]

Futurism: Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It’s Immediately Used to Fake Terror Attacks. “On Thursday, Google announced that it added an image generation tool straight into the web browser version of the app, allowing anyone to fabricate made-up satellite images of anywhere in the world. It was clearly a misinformation disaster. The AI […]

Financial Times: How absurdist memes turned into war propaganda. “If Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was the first TikTok war, then the Iran conflict is the first meme war. While Trump is on Truth Social, official Iranian accounts have embarked on their own trolling campaign via X. The Iranian embassy in Zimbabwe joked that it had lost the keys to the Strait of Hormuz and posted a creepy AI […]

Financial Times: How absurdist memes turned into war propaganda. “If Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was the first TikTok war, then the Iran conflict is the first meme war. While Trump is on Truth Social, official Iranian accounts have embarked on their own trolling campaign via X. The Iranian embassy in Zimbabwe joked that it had lost the keys to the Strait of Hormuz and posted a creepy AI […]

Financial Times: How absurdist memes turned into war propaganda. “If Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was the first TikTok war, then the Iran conflict is the first meme war. While Trump is on Truth Social, official Iranian accounts have embarked on their own trolling campaign via X. The Iranian embassy in Zimbabwe joked that it had lost the keys to the Strait of Hormuz and posted a creepy AI […]

Financial Times: How absurdist memes turned into war propaganda. “If Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was the first TikTok war, then the Iran conflict is the first meme war. While Trump is on Truth Social, official Iranian accounts have embarked on their own trolling campaign via X. The Iranian embassy in Zimbabwe joked that it had lost the keys to the Strait of Hormuz and posted a creepy AI […]

Financial Times: How absurdist memes turned into war propaganda. “If Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was the first TikTok war, then the Iran conflict is the first meme war. While Trump is on Truth Social, official Iranian accounts have embarked on their own trolling campaign via X. The Iranian embassy in Zimbabwe joked that it had lost the keys to the Strait of Hormuz and posted a creepy AI […]

Institute for Strategic Dialogue: ISD Launches the Authoritarian Interference Tracker. “ISD is launching the Authoritarian Interference Tracker (AIT), a tool that catalogues interference operations by Russia, China and Iran across five incident types: cyber operations, kinetic operations, information operations, malign finance, and political and civic subversion.”

Institute for Strategic Dialogue: ISD Launches the Authoritarian Interference Tracker. “ISD is launching the Authoritarian Interference Tracker (AIT), a tool that catalogues interference operations by Russia, China and Iran across five incident types: cyber operations, kinetic operations, information operations, malign finance, and political and civic subversion.”

Institute for Strategic Dialogue: ISD Launches the Authoritarian Interference Tracker. “ISD is launching the Authoritarian Interference Tracker (AIT), a tool that catalogues interference operations by Russia, China and Iran across five incident types: cyber operations, kinetic operations, information operations, malign finance, and political and civic subversion.”

Institute for Strategic Dialogue: ISD Launches the Authoritarian Interference Tracker. “ISD is launching the Authoritarian Interference Tracker (AIT), a tool that catalogues interference operations by Russia, China and Iran across five incident types: cyber operations, kinetic operations, information operations, malign finance, and political and civic subversion.”

Institute for Strategic Dialogue: ISD Launches the Authoritarian Interference Tracker. “ISD is launching the Authoritarian Interference Tracker (AIT), a tool that catalogues interference operations by Russia, China and Iran across five incident types: cyber operations, kinetic operations, information operations, malign finance, and political and civic subversion.”

Moscow Times: Russian Propaganda Is Getting Worse as the War Drags On. “In the first months of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia took pride in the high quality of its propaganda. Even its enemies and various analysts were forced to acknowledge that this was one of the few high-quality products the country produced. Four years later, something has broken. It is as if shifting the […]

Moscow Times: Russian Propaganda Is Getting Worse as the War Drags On. “In the first months of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia took pride in the high quality of its propaganda. Even its enemies and various analysts were forced to acknowledge that this was one of the few high-quality products the country produced. Four years later, something has broken. It is as if shifting the […]

Moscow Times: Russian Propaganda Is Getting Worse as the War Drags On. “In the first months of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia took pride in the high quality of its propaganda. Even its enemies and various analysts were forced to acknowledge that this was one of the few high-quality products the country produced. Four years later, something has broken. It is as if shifting the […]

Moscow Times: Russian Propaganda Is Getting Worse as the War Drags On. “In the first months of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia took pride in the high quality of its propaganda. Even its enemies and various analysts were forced to acknowledge that this was one of the few high-quality products the country produced. Four years later, something has broken. It is as if shifting the […]

Moscow Times: Russian Propaganda Is Getting Worse as the War Drags On. “In the first months of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia took pride in the high quality of its propaganda. Even its enemies and various analysts were forced to acknowledge that this was one of the few high-quality products the country produced. Four years later, something has broken. It is as if shifting the […]

Euronews: AI chatbots citing Russian propaganda sourced from EU-sanctioned outlet. “AI chatbots are citing Russia propaganda from EU-sanctioned outlets, researchers say, raising questions about how hybrid warfare is expanding to influence large language models (LLMs). Mainstream large language models (LLMs) such as Google Gemini have reportedly cited pro-Russian propaganda from an EU-sanctioned […]

Euronews: AI chatbots citing Russian propaganda sourced from EU-sanctioned outlet. “AI chatbots are citing Russia propaganda from EU-sanctioned outlets, researchers say, raising questions about how hybrid warfare is expanding to influence large language models (LLMs). Mainstream large language models (LLMs) such as Google Gemini have reportedly cited pro-Russian propaganda from an EU-sanctioned […]

Euronews: AI chatbots citing Russian propaganda sourced from EU-sanctioned outlet. “AI chatbots are citing Russia propaganda from EU-sanctioned outlets, researchers say, raising questions about how hybrid warfare is expanding to influence large language models (LLMs). Mainstream large language models (LLMs) such as Google Gemini have reportedly cited pro-Russian propaganda from an EU-sanctioned […]

Euronews: AI chatbots citing Russian propaganda sourced from EU-sanctioned outlet. “AI chatbots are citing Russia propaganda from EU-sanctioned outlets, researchers say, raising questions about how hybrid warfare is expanding to influence large language models (LLMs). Mainstream large language models (LLMs) such as Google Gemini have reportedly cited pro-Russian propaganda from an EU-sanctioned […]

Euronews: AI chatbots citing Russian propaganda sourced from EU-sanctioned outlet. “AI chatbots are citing Russia propaganda from EU-sanctioned outlets, researchers say, raising questions about how hybrid warfare is expanding to influence large language models (LLMs). Mainstream large language models (LLMs) such as Google Gemini have reportedly cited pro-Russian propaganda from an EU-sanctioned […]