Gabrielius #Landsbergis: #Russian online #disinformation is the cheapest way to influence the #west
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@FAIR Oh yes. They started blocking pro-Palestine and anti-Russia messaging on Ukraine for me a long time ago.
This is of course systematic abuse of reporting tools by automated means or by troll farms in the case of Kremlin.
Facebook refuses to hire enough people to counter the problem, which is just getting exponentially worse by cheap LLM’s able to do the job which you formerly needed a Russian spy for.
#ai #disinformation #llm #botnet #socialmedia #facebook
While the #US is completely abandoning and defunding the fight against #disinformation, and the #EU remains divided on how to combat it, #Russia is once again adapting and changing tactics - currently 'teaching' #AI models with false stories, disinformation and revisionist history.
The #European Broadcasting #Union (EBU) launches #Eurovision #News Spotlight (ENS), a network of 18 public broadcasters to collaborate on #FactChecking and #OSINT
https://thedesk.net/2025/04/ebu-fact-checking-disinformation-unit/
The Desk · European Broadcasting Union launches fact-checking unitPublic service broadcasters participating in the EBU will work on a new fact-check initiative that will strengthen investigative journalism and help fight online misinformation.
The mechanism by which ideas are disseminated on a large scale is propaganda, in the broad sense of an organized effort to spread a particular belief or doctrine. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda
We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issue so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda
Center for Countering Disinformation: How Russia Spreads Propaganda Worldwide Through Journalism Training Courses. “The russian state-owned media company RT continues to spread kremlin propaganda around the world under the guise of training programs. The company has announced the launch of a new large-scale course for foreign journalists.”
“How Israel uses seductive imagery to hide its military transgressions”
by David Miller, Paul Salvatori and Marion Fernando in Tracking Power Update on Substack
“Marketing female sexuality & establishing a ‘hip’ social media presence are just some strategies Israel employs to distract from the violent crimes it’s committing vs Palestinians”
Tracking Power update · How Israel uses seductive imagery to hide its military transgressions
This invisible, intertwining structure of groupings and associations is the mechanism by which democracy has organized its group mind and simplified its mass thinking. To deplore the existence of such a mechanism is to ask for a society such as never was and never will be. To admit that it exists, but expect that it shall not be used, is unreasonable. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda
Association for Progressive CommunicationsWebinar: Is your activism being sabotaged? How mis/disinformation undermines movements, and how to stay unitedAre you a writer, activist, researcher, artist or just somebody who desires a better world, who is seeing fractures even within your most trusted circles?
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@bplein Before generative AI, people had the same behavior with other sources of knowledge, like encyclopedias. I remember seeing kids just copy and paste the content of a Wikipedia article without checking their sources. But they were just kids, and it's fundamental to teach them how to use an encyclopedia, that it's just a starting point, and if you want to go deeper into a topic, you have to check reliable sources.
I think the situation today is similar to your description. We have text generators that give convincing answers to the unwary, and those who haven't learned to question the sources of knowledge will accept LLM answers without any critical thinking. The same is true of encyclopedias, books, magazines, and any other sources of knowledge.
The importance of critical thinking has never been as important as it is today, especially given how easy it is to create disinformation campaigns using generative AI.
In the face of #disinformation, defenders of democracy are often drawn into endless battles against falsehoods. This is precisely the trap laid by anti-democratic movements. Their aim is not to win the debate, but to waste our time and energy – keeping us busy defending our work instead of advancing it.
https://www.disinfo.eu/we-fight-disinformation-because-we-fight-for-democracy
EU DisinfoLabWe fight disinformation because we fight for democracyIn the face of disinformation, defenders of democracy are often drawn into endless battles against falsehoods. Yet, this is precisely the trap laid by anti-democratic movements. Their aim is not to win the debate, but to waste our time and energy – keeping us busy defending our work instead of advancing it. Rather than playing by their rules, we must focus on protecting our shared rights and strengthening democracy.
In theory, every citizen makes up his mind on public questions and matters of private conduct. In practice, if all men had to study for themselves the abstruse economic, political, and ethical data involved in every question, they would find it impossible to come to a conclusion without anything. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda
One of the most prolific spreaders of #Russian #disinformation now has #WhiteHouse access.
As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be regimented. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda
"The United States is now the world’s biggest disinformation factory and Canada’s reliance on American-based social media platforms makes our country incredibly vulnerable, said Aengus Bridgman, head of McGill University’s Media Ecosystem Observatory."
#media #news #disinformation #usa #canada
https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/u-s-now-worlds-leading-disinformation-factory/article_98a95dc8-3f9a-52bf-961a-4e2b716f08a0.html
Metroland Media · U.S. now world’s leading disinformation factory
#Facebook #NonEnglish #ContentModeration #misinformation #disinformation
'Meta’s automated filters and content moderators often fall short when dealing with non-English content. This isn’t just a technical limitation — it’s a dangerous oversight. In communities where English isn’t the dominant language, this gap leaves space for disinformation to flourish unchecked.
Two recent examples show the effects disinformation can have.'
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2025/meta-disinformation-non-english-languages/
Poynter · Meta is failing to stop dangerous disinformation in the world’s most spoken languages - PoynterInternal docs and fact-checkers show Meta often misses harmful posts in Swahili, Amharic, Oromo and more — putting real communities at risk
Poynter: Meta is failing to stop dangerous disinformation in the world’s most spoken languages. “Meta’s automated filters and content moderators often fall short when dealing with non-English content. This isn’t just a technical limitation — it’s a dangerous oversight. In communities where English isn’t the dominant language, this gap leaves space for disinformation to flourish […]
By 1928, the word's troubling connotations had not faded: on the contrary. Throughout the decade there had been a gradual, disorienting revelation of just how systematically, and how ingeniously, the Allied governments had fooled the peoples of two great democracies, Great Britain and, in particular, the USA. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda
Official #propaganda & #disinformation designed to help destroy democracy.
This is why Trump put this particular cabinet in place.
https://apnews.com/article/gabbard-intelligence-agencies-cia-trump-6c7a3e9671a95827b31375fe52fe1c0f
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