EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation followed by Facebook facebook microsoft google Article 746 words 34 votes
A developer built a 'propaganda machine' using OpenAI tech to highlight the dangers of mass-produced AI disinformation Article 494 words 27 votes
A pro-Putin Facebook network is pumping French-language propaganda into Africa. The pages promote Russia’s line on the war in Ukraine to more than four million followers... social media facebook Article 2050 words, published Aug 3 2023 40 votes
Propaganda, censorship, and surveillance are all inherent attributes of information monopoly privacy Link 10 votes
How Beijing influences the influencers social media facebook Article 2037 words, published Dec 14 2021 5 votes
China unleashed its propaganda machine on Peng Shuai’s #MeToo accusation. Her story still got out. internet Article 1827 words 19 votes
Sophie Zhang risked everything to expose how Facebook enables global political manipulation. Now she’s telling her story. facebook social media Article 3493 words 14 votes
China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media social media facebook Article 3237 words 13 votes
The strange world of YouTube's corporate propaganda google social media Video 18:34, published May 15 2020 12 votes
What Facebook fed the baby boomers. Many Americans’ feeds are nightmares. I know because I spent weeks living inside two of them. facebook social media Article 2322 words, published Nov 24 2020 18 votes
Confessions of a Trump troll - A Georgia lawyer describes how he used twenty fake Twitter accounts to disseminate political disinformation social media Article 815 words 12 votes
Microsoft Edge’s NewsGuard extension now requires a paid membership to use microsoft Article 344 words 5 votes
Facebook has taken down the huge "Police Lives Matter" page after being revealed as a Kosovo-based operation pushing misinformation about US cops social media facebook Article 1387 words 23 votes
YouTube recommended a Russian media site thousands of times for analysis of Mueller’s report, a watchdog group says social media Article 1033 words 14 votes
WhatsApp has become a hotbed for spreading Nazi propaganda in Germany social media Article 1087 words 16 votes
In India's last election, social media was used as a tool. This time it could become a weapon social media facebook Article 4 votes
The Knight Foundation commissioned a study to analyze bot accounts that spread fake news on Twitter. This is what they found. social media Link 13 votes
Twitter and Facebook say they removed thousands of troll accounts in run-up to 2018 midterms facebook social media Article 465 words 5 votes
Homeland Security fell for YouTube videos about ‘Antifa Civil War’ social media Article 1042 words 9 votes
Gab's demise is just the beginning of a horrific new era of far-right extremism social media Article 1712 words 12 votes
Twitter makes datasets available containing accounts, tweets, and media from accounts associated with influence campaigns from the IRA and Iran social media Tweet 8 votes
A genocide incited on Facebook, with posts from Myanmar’s military facebook social media Article 1706 words 8 votes
Volunteers found Iran's propaganda effort on Reddit — but their warnings were ignored social media Article 1171 words 14 votes
Suspected Iranian influence operation leverages network of inauthentic news sites and social media targeting audiences in US, UK, Latin America, Middle East social media Article 768 words 12 votes
Iran Emerges as Latest Threat to Facebook and Twitter social media facebook Article 992 words 7 votes
A withering verdict: MPs report on Zuckerberg, Russia and Cambridge Analytica facebook privacy social media Article 932 words 14 votes
Twitter is suspending more than one million accounts per day in latest purge social media Article 677 words 27 votes
Memes that kill: The future of information warfare social media internet security.cyber Article 4953 words, published May 3 2018 7 votes