Tag: Disinformation

Argentina uncovers suspected Russian spy ring behind disinformation campaigns (Daryna Antoniuk – The Record)

Argentina’s intelligence service reportedly has uncovered a group of suspected Russian spies accused of spreading disinformation to promote Moscow's interests in the region. Local...

OpenAI takes down ChatGPT accounts linked to state-backed hacking, disinformation (Jonathan Greig – The Record)

State-backed threat actors from a handful of countries are now using ChatGPT for illicit purposes ranging from malware refinement to employment scams and social...

Facebook, dilaga la disinformazione sul Covid: gruppi “accerchiati” dalle comunità estreme e no-vax (Veronica Balocco, CorCom)

Le comunità dei genitori su Facebook sono state oggetto di una potente campagna di disinformazione dall’inizio della pandemia di Covid-19. Non solo. Secondo un nuovo studio...

AI and the Future of Disinformation Campaigns. Part 2: A Threat Model (Katerina Sedova, Christine McNeill Aurora Johnson Aditi Joshi, Ido Wulkan, CSET)

Artificial intelligence offers enormous promise to advance progress and powerful capabilities to disrupt it. This policy brief is the second installment of a series...

AI and the Future of Disinformation Campaigns. Part 1: The RICHDATA Framework (Katerina Sedova, Christine McNeill Aurora Johnson Aditi Joshi, Ido Wulkan, CSET)

Artificial intelligence offers enormous promise to advance progress, and powerful capabilities to disrupt it. This policy brief is the first installment of a series...

(South Korea) South Korea and disinformation

Heidi Tworek and Yoojung Lee writes for Brookings: Baseless rumors about new technologies spreading cancerous radiation. Politicians condemning negative stories as “false” or “defamatory.” Deepening polarization amid constant...

Language Models/Disinformation – Truth, Lies, and Automation. How Language Models Could Change Disinformation (Ben Buchanan (On leave), Andrew Lohn, Micah Musser, Katerina Sedova, CSET)

Growing popular and industry interest in high-performing natural language generation models has led to concerns that such models could be used to generate automated...

Global – Deepfakes, Disinformation, and Democracy (ITIF)

The media has long played an important role in a healthy democracy, providing citizens with access to accurate news and information that allows them...

(Disinformation/Misinformation) Free societies face long-term game of ‘cat-and-mouse’ in containing the spread of misinformation, disinformation (McCain Institute)

https://www.mccaininstitute.org/news/free-societies-face-long-term-game-of-cat-and-mouse-in-containing-the-spread-of-misinformation-disinformation/

(Misinformation/Disinformation) We need to inoculate military servicemembers against information threats: the case for digital literacy training (War on The Rocks)

P. W. Singer is a strategist and senior fellow at New America and the author of multiple books, including Wired for War, Ghost Fleet, Burn-In, and LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media. Lt. Col. Eric B. Johnson, U.S. Army, is the Chief of Staff...

(Taiwan/Democracy/Disinformation) Protecting Democracy in an Age of Disinformation: Lessons from Taiwan (Jude Blanchette, Bonnie S. Glaser, Scott Kennedy, Scott Livingston, CSIS)

Taiwan has long defended itself from political meddling, including disinformation, by the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Attempts to influence Taiwan’s domestic politics have...

DEMOCRACY/DISINFORMATION – Democratic offense against disinformation (Atlantic Council)

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/democratic-offense-against-disinformation/

DEMOCRACIES/DISINFORMATION – Podcast: How democracies can go on offense against disinformation (Quinta Jurecic, Alina Polyakova, and Daniel Fried, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/podcast-how-democracies-can-go-on-offense-against-disinformation/

DATA PRIVACY/DISINFORMATION – Why Data Privacy Is Crucial to Fighting Disinformation (Patrick Tucker, Nextgov)

The data we give tech companies when we buy online or like a tweet will soon fuel disinformation campaigns intended to divide Americans or...