everton137
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@chrisstoecker/116010899260124383
Exactly. That’s why it’s hard to understand how people whose job is to deal with people can miss something so obvious.
Many politicians could benefit from reading more of Christian Stöcker’s work on disinformation.
@leavex That is not what real friends are
RE: https://mastodon.social/@chrisstoecker/116010899260124383
Exactly. That’s why it’s hard to understand how people whose job is to deal with people can miss something so obvious.
Many politicians could benefit from reading more of Christian Stöcker’s work on disinformation.
@leavex That is not what real friends are
Hey y'all I think @Gabrielle stumbled on a real life active disinformation campaign. If anyone is advising someone who is looking at a move to Canada, you should know this bullshit is out there.
And WILD, huh? "Hey, we need people to be scared of leaving, so can we start making shit up?"
There's a lot of them, too.
https://youtu.be/0rwL5XIQD2Y?si=zKOEDUbGvvdkXSsF
hypebot
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Estonian volunteers struggling to protect Wikipedia from Russian propaganda
https://news.err.ee/1609903256/estonian-volunteers-struggling-to-protect-wikipedia-from-russian-propaganda
Estonian volunteers struggling to protect Wikipedia from Russian propaganda
https://news.err.ee/1609903256/estonian-volunteers-struggling-to-protect-wikipedia-from-russian-propaganda
It was great to finally meet Björn Staschen (@bjoernsta), who is doing great work in Germany with the #SaveSocial campaign to bring more people to the #Fediverse.
His campaign shares many synergies with the #LeaveX campaign, which aims to persuade politicians to stop using platforms like X that undermine democracy.
Michael Foster
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We've launched our DIY guide to dismantling #disinformation.
The CAPE toolkit enables you to analyse any item in the news media by questioning its Content, Accuracy, Politics, and the Emotions it’s aiming to provoke.
We launched and demonstrated the toolkit at a live Zoom session earlier this week – and we got some great feedback.
The CAPE Toolkit can to be used by News Clubs, or anyone wanting to be better equipped to resist media manipulation.
So get your news CAPE on. The hero vibes are a bonus….
We've launched our DIY guide to dismantling #disinformation.
The CAPE toolkit enables you to analyse any item in the news media by questioning its Content, Accuracy, Politics, and the Emotions it’s aiming to provoke.
We launched and demonstrated the toolkit at a live Zoom session earlier this week – and we got some great feedback.
The CAPE Toolkit can to be used by News Clubs, or anyone wanting to be better equipped to resist media manipulation.
So get your news CAPE on. The hero vibes are a bonus….
bhaugen
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As Jennifer Rubin explains, the reason Trump's ratcheting up the diversionary fits — the FBI raid in Georgia, arresting Don Lemon, etc. — even as he refuses de-escalation in Minnesota is that he's caught between a rock and a hard place.
MAGA is driven by theocratic fury fed by white supremacy. MAGA wants the assaults on immigrants.
#Trump #AlexPretti #ICE #Minnesota #lies #disinformation #gaslighting #violence #BigLie #TulsiGabbard #DonLemon #FultonCounty
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https://newrepublic.com/article/205923/trump-gop-panic-ice-grows-maga-goes-off-rails-race-traitor
"The actual physical seizure of a state’s voting materials was a Rubicon we hoped Trump would not dare cross. But here we are, and it’s only January."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #TulsiGabbard #FultonCounty #BigLie #2020Election #lies #disinformation
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https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/theyre-seizing-the-ballots-and-voter
As Jennifer Rubin explains, the reason Trump's ratcheting up the diversionary fits — the FBI raid in Georgia, arresting Don Lemon, etc. — even as he refuses de-escalation in Minnesota is that he's caught between a rock and a hard place.
MAGA is driven by theocratic fury fed by white supremacy. MAGA wants the assaults on immigrants.
#Trump #AlexPretti #ICE #Minnesota #lies #disinformation #gaslighting #violence #BigLie #TulsiGabbard #DonLemon #FultonCounty
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https://newrepublic.com/article/205923/trump-gop-panic-ice-grows-maga-goes-off-rails-race-traitor
"(As this newsletter was being finalized Thursday evening, Trump did a gaggle where he admitted there is no draw down in Minnesota, telling reporters he’s not pulling back and 'nothing is going to change.')"
#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #Minnesota #ICE #violence #MaskedThugs #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #WhiteSupremacy
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"The actual physical seizure of a state’s voting materials was a Rubicon we hoped Trump would not dare cross. But here we are, and it’s only January."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #TulsiGabbard #FultonCounty #BigLie #2020Election #lies #disinformation
/17
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/theyre-seizing-the-ballots-and-voter
"Those in the media who choose to treat propaganda as the story, who begin from lies rather than from events, are also complicit. The border is the crack, the lies are the wedge, and the people who accept those lies are opening it wider."
See also T. Snyder's discussion of these issues in the video linked below.
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #tyranny #fascism #immigrants #border #BorderPatrol #PoliceState #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation #propaganda #media
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"Respectable white people are now keenly aware that the logical conclusion of a decades' worth of anti-immigrant hatred includes murdering white people and they don't like it. They are shocked to discover that authoritarianism did not stop at the color line."
~ John Stoehr
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #tyranny #fascism #immigrants #border #BorderPatrol #PoliceState #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation #propaganda #WhiteSupremacy
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"It is the crack that can be opened. The wedge is constructed with lies, which begin as cliches and memes that the government pounds into our heads, and which the media repeat, mindlessly or with malice.
One of these cliches is 'law enforcement,' which is uttered over and over like an incantation."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #tyranny #fascism #immigrants #border #BorderPatrol #PoliceState #LawandOrder
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"Those in the media who choose to treat propaganda as the story, who begin from lies rather than from events, are also complicit. The border is the crack, the lies are the wedge, and the people who accept those lies are opening it wider."
See also T. Snyder's discussion of these issues in the video linked below.
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #tyranny #fascism #immigrants #border #BorderPatrol #PoliceState #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation #propaganda #media
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"Donald Trump is enormously dangerous. And we would be fools to look at a small rhetorical retreat from the horrors of his armed occupation in Minneapolis as a victory that will last."
~ Edwin Eisendrath
#Trump #AlexPretti #ICE #Minnesota #lies #disinformation #gaslighting #violence #BigLie #TulsiGabbard #DonLemon #FultonCounty
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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/congress-clawing-back-ice-funding
“'We’re gonna de-escalate a little bit,' Donald Trump said on Fox News Tuesday.
Sounded good. But it was absolute nonsense.
This malignant sadist has zero interest in moderating the abuses of his lawless police state."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #AlexPretti #TomHoman #ICE #Minnesota #lies #disinformation #violence #PoliceState
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https://www.americaamerica.news/p/there-will-be-no-real-de-escalation
Approval numbers are plummeting, he feels checked with ICE and Minnesota (though he refuses to de-escalate). Queue wild diversions, from raiding an election office, resurrecting lies about the 2020 election being stolen, advancing Tulsi Gabbard as the new face while Kristi Noem is shoved to the side, arresting Don Lemon.
As Peter Rothpletz says,
"A floundering Donald Trump gaslights on overdrive."
#Trump #lies #misinformation. #ICE #violence #authoritarianism
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"Donald Trump is enormously dangerous. And we would be fools to look at a small rhetorical retreat from the horrors of his armed occupation in Minneapolis as a victory that will last."
~ Edwin Eisendrath
#Trump #AlexPretti #ICE #Minnesota #lies #disinformation #gaslighting #violence #BigLie #TulsiGabbard #DonLemon #FultonCounty
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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/congress-clawing-back-ice-funding
Ross Gayler
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"Bottom line
The point isn’t that AI makes democracy impossible. The point is that democracy becomes brittle when it’s cheap to counterfeit social proof—when it costs little to run a fake crowd and minutes to manufacture “public opinion.”
The mission is straightforward: make large-scale impersonation and coordination harder to run, easier to detect, and less profitable to sustain. If we get that right, the public square does not need a central authority to decide what is true. It needs conditions where authentic human participation is visible—and where engineered consensus collapses the moment it tries to scale.
Key takeaways
The next wave of influence operations may not look like obvious copy-paste bots. It may look like communities: thousands of AI personas with memory, social identities, distinct styles, and coordinated goals.
The most dangerous outcome is not a single viral lie—it is synthetic consensus: the illusion that “everyone is saying this,” which can quietly bend beliefs and norms.
This is already moving from theory to reality. In July 2024, the U.S. DOJ announced it disrupted a Russia-linked AI-enhanced bot operation involving nearly 1,000 accounts impersonating Americans.
Defenses should not hinge on policing content. They should focus on coordination and provenance: detecting statistically unlikely patterns, stress-testing defenses with simulations, strengthening identity/proof signals, and shifting platform incentives."
https://www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/when-ai-can-fake-majorities-democracy
#AI #GenerativeAI #AISwarms #Disinformation #Propaganda #SocialMedia #Democracy
"Bottom line
The point isn’t that AI makes democracy impossible. The point is that democracy becomes brittle when it’s cheap to counterfeit social proof—when it costs little to run a fake crowd and minutes to manufacture “public opinion.”
The mission is straightforward: make large-scale impersonation and coordination harder to run, easier to detect, and less profitable to sustain. If we get that right, the public square does not need a central authority to decide what is true. It needs conditions where authentic human participation is visible—and where engineered consensus collapses the moment it tries to scale.
Key takeaways
The next wave of influence operations may not look like obvious copy-paste bots. It may look like communities: thousands of AI personas with memory, social identities, distinct styles, and coordinated goals.
The most dangerous outcome is not a single viral lie—it is synthetic consensus: the illusion that “everyone is saying this,” which can quietly bend beliefs and norms.
This is already moving from theory to reality. In July 2024, the U.S. DOJ announced it disrupted a Russia-linked AI-enhanced bot operation involving nearly 1,000 accounts impersonating Americans.
Defenses should not hinge on policing content. They should focus on coordination and provenance: detecting statistically unlikely patterns, stress-testing defenses with simulations, strengthening identity/proof signals, and shifting platform incentives."
https://www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/when-ai-can-fake-majorities-democracy
#AI #GenerativeAI #AISwarms #Disinformation #Propaganda #SocialMedia #Democracy
Chip Butty
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Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
