We unveiled the internal infrastructure of the most secretive Russian #intelligence units by studying their military decorations. If you want to find out more about our methodology, join us on our #webinar with @disinfo.eu!
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📅 Webinar: The Rise of AI in PRC Influence Operations (GoLaxy Documents)
We’ll explore how AI is reshaping PRC information operations — from mass bot activity to more precise profiling and targeting.
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Though I'm quite surprised to learn that the killer's father came here seeking asylum, given that he was on the winning side of the civil war, and reportedly has "close links with 'high status' figures linked to the regime" that runs the country. That's the sole element of the rumour that's true.
With the Southport murders inquiry report out now, the conspiracy rumour that Keir Starmer represented the killer's father in immigration court is surfacing online yet again. Yes, the one so unfounded that even the Daily Mail had to publish a debunk of it.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
A Fidesz-linked "independent" candidate also named Peter Magyar won far more votes than the Fidesz-Tisza win margin in the district.
«With less than 250 votes in the district, Fidesz’s Péter Ágh won, while Péter Magyar, who ran as an independent, received more than 900 votes.»
#Hungary #elections
A video viewed over 1.7 million times appears to show an interview with two Muslim women saying people shouldn’t bring dogs to the beach.
It’s generated a huge amount of negative engagement and comments, but it’s fake. It’s been created with AI.
Again, if you want explain why trust in universities has declined in the last decade, & you don't benchmark that decline against contemporaneous declines in trust in <every other societal institution> in 🇺🇸, then you cannot identify variables internal to universities as the main or sole explanations.
Seems that the accounts spreading this image have a pattern of posting fabricated/modified content (with occasional genuine content) depicting Reform with disproportionately large non-White representation/support. Likely by Restore supporters to foment/exploit ethnonationalism.
Just another clog in the machine?
But hey, let's see what they can do with a shoestring budget.
NEW on @indicator.media:
I found a group of X accounts that worked together to remove Community Notes from British Conservative Party accounts during the 2024 UK general election.
Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...
Viktor Orban can still win if Mike Pence finds the courage!
Orbán did get absolutely slaughtered at the polls, though. The 2020 election was really close in comparison. Not saying it justifies Trump's denialism, but we don't have a counterfactual with Orbán.
Orban concedes in Hungary. Good reminder that incumbents can lose even in competitive authoritarian regimes if there is enough a wave of popular support for the opposition.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...
Good that @london.gov.uk made a public call to action about the disinformation problem affecting London.
But his team should really have prepared and attached a page/thread of case receipts and action specifics, because it's now getting piled on with selective counter-narrative and conspiracy.
"that you stop to take a look [at a car crash on the side of the road] doesn't mean you *want* there to be a car crash on the side of the road"
It was an absolute pleasure to host the Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk at the Cambridge Disinformation Summit. A powerful speech about the dangers of online disinformation and how it can translate to offline harm.
Fantastic leadership from one of the world's greatest cities. 👏
At last night's Cambridge Disinformation Summit keynote dinner (bottom left), listening to @mayoroflondon.bsky.social talk about the monetised platform economy targeting London with ragebait and fabrications. Also, "Londonmaxxing".
#disinfo #socialMedia #accountability #London
Greatest. Correction. Ever.
Don't miss this week's #TheGlobalJigsaw looking at the battle for #Hungary: #Fidesz Viktor #Orban faces a showdown as Peter #Magyar of #Tisza takes him on; polls placing him ahead of the incumbent.
Yet victory may still prove elusive on this titled field
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
#Fidesz #Tisza
🗞️🕵️🧑💻🧑🏫 In Cambridge for the Cambridge Disinformation Summit over this and the next two days. Message me if you're around and would like to talk shop.
![Matt Maltese - As the World Caves In [Official Audio]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:waeh2azqfmi6xk2wwst3olso/bafkreiex4iy7ik2fqpdsd2tjxlxfd27ysk4zigxbx6we2sor6mvztwebli)
Like that Sri Lankan grift guru, but in Vietnam.
«With the slogan of “Kiếm tiền online,” or “earn money online,” Tuấn offers 90-day classes for 10 million VND (around $380 in U.S. dollars) for students to learn how to use ChatGPT and create content for Facebook.»
#Vietnam #genAI #slop #disinfo
Cool. See you in Cambridge later this week.
EXCLUSIVE: We've obtained a cache of text messages and recorded conversations between Russian intelligence officers and a student they coerced into becoming an informant.
Here’s a rare insight into Moscow’s efforts to infiltrate opposition groups abroad: www.politico.eu/article/russ...
The Resilience & Reconstruction team, at London's National Liberal Club, on their "Disinformation, UK Democracy, and Attitudes toward Ukraine & Russia in the UK" study, on middle-class targets feeling they lack agency buying $2B worth of "personally calibrated" laundered Russian narratives.
